Words · Rare
pilau
5 letters · 5 distinct letters
- noun
rice cooked in well seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes
Word history
Borrowed from Hawaiian pilau (“putrid”).
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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
- Rarer than once in ten million words.
- In the spelling bee
- Bonus word The ENABLE list is generous with rare words, so words found only there score as bonus words.