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8 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun small songbird of northern America and Eurasia having a distinctive white rump
originUncertain. Probably a back-formation from Middle English whit ers (“white arse”), after the prominent white rump of many species. Compare dialect forms white rump, white-tail. Possibly a compound of wheat + ear or white + ear. Attested since the seventeenth century as wheat-ears or wheatgear.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- weather 13
- whereat 13
- wreathe 13
- thawer 12
- wether 12
- wreath 12
- hewer 11
- rewth 11
- thraw 11
- threw 11
- whare 11
- whata 11