7 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
noun a device for making soundings
adjective financially secure and safe
adjective exercising or showing good judgment
originInherited from Middle English soundre, from Anglo-Norman soundre, Old Northern French sondre, from a Germanic language, probably Old English sunor (“herd of swine”), from Proto-West Germanic *suniʀu, plural of *sun (“swine, boar”), from Proto-Germanic *sunaz (“boar”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewH- (“to bring forth, bear, give birth”). Cognate with Dutch zeunie (“trough, drinking bowl”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0