Words · Rare
clepe
5 letters · 4 distinct letters
clepe is in Nectary’s accepted word list, but we don’t have a definition for it yet.
Word history
From Middle English clepen, clepien, from Old English cleopian, clipian (“to speak, cry out, call, summon, invoke, cry to, implore”), from Proto Germanic *klipōną (“to ring, sound”), from Proto Indo European *gal (“to sound”).
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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
- Too rare to measure in everyday writing.
- In the spelling bee
- Bonus word Words found only in the largest list score as bonus words rather than daily answers.