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6 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the shape of something rotating rapidly
noun a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)
originLearned borrowing from Latin vortex. Doublet of vertex.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0