6 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
noun a person who works at a specific occupation
noun a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
noun sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae
originFrom Middle English werkere, worcher, wercher, equivalent to work + -er. Displaced the older term wright, from Old English wyrhta.
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