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5 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a speech sound made with the vocal tract open
noun a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel
originFrom Middle English vowel, from Old French vouel, a variant of voyeul (whence French voyelle), from Latin vōcālis (“voiced”), itself a semantic loan of Koine Greek φωνῆεν (phōnêen). Doublet of vocal and vocalis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0