w 4 o 1 r 1 k 5 m 3 a 1 n 1
7 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun an employee who performs manual or industrial labor
originFrom Middle English werkman, from Old English weorcmann (“workman”), from Proto-West Germanic *werkamann, from Proto-Germanic *werkamann- (“workman”), equivalent to work + -man. Compare Dutch werkman (“workman”), German Werkmann (“labourer, workman”), Icelandic verkamaður (“workman”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0