Words · Rare
clept
5 letters · 5 distinct letters
clept is in Nectary’s accepted word list, but we don’t have a definition for it yet.
Word history
History of clepe
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
- From the ENABLE word list, a public domain list made for word games.
- How common it is
- Too rare to measure in everyday writing.
- In the spelling bee
- Bonus word The ENABLE list is generous with rare words, so words found only there score as bonus words.