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oolith
6 letters · 5 distinct letters
oolith is in Nectary’s accepted word list, but we don’t have a definition for it yet.
Word history
Borrowed from Late Latin oolithus; the Latin word was coined by the German doctor and mineralogist Franz Ernst Brückmann (1697 to 1753) as a translation of German Rogenstein (“oolite”) (Rogen (“fish roe”) + Stein (“stone”)). Oolithus is derived from Ancient Greek ᾠόν (ōión, “egg; seed”) (possibly ultimately from Proto Indo European *h₂ew (“to clothe oneself, dress; to be dressed”), in the sense of a bird being clothed in feathers) + λῐ́θος (lĭ́thos, “a stone; stone as a substance”), analysable as oo + lith.
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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.