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7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)
originInherited from Middle English surname, a partial calque of Old French surnum, surnoun (“surname; nickname”) (whence Middle English surnoun), from Late Latin supernōmen, suprānōmen (“surname”), from super- (“over, above, beyond”) and nōmen (“name”), equivalent to sur- + name.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Also spells
Words from these letters
- amuser 8
- manure 8
- namers 8
- ramens 8
- remans 8
- rumens 8
- unarms 8
- unseam 8
- amens 7
- amuse 7
- arums 7
- enarm 7