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9 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
noun the property of moving with pain or difficulty
noun firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action
originFrom Middle English stiffenes, styffenesse, styfnesse; equivalent to stiff + -ness. Perhaps merging with Middle English stithnesse, stithnysse, from Old English stīþness (“stiffness”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- stiffens 14
- stiffen 13
- infeft 12
- sniffs 12
- stiffs 12
- fiefs 11
- fifes 11
- niffs 11
- sniff 11
- stiff 11
- teffs 11
- tiffs 11