Words · Less common
celt
/sɛlt/ · 4 letters · 4 distinct letters
- noun
a member of a European people who once occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul prior to Roman times
Word history
From Latin celtis (“chisel”), very probably a ghost word originating from a copyist's error in the Vulgate Bible, but taken as genuine and subsequently used in Medieval Latin.
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Why this word counts
- Where it comes from
- Listed in the English Speller Database at size 70: the largest list we accept, where the rarer words live.
- How common it is
- Used about once in every 5 million words.
- In the spelling bee
- Bonus word It looks like a name or a proper noun, so it stays out of daily answers. It still scores as a bonus word.