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pili
4 letters · 3 distinct letters
A form of pilus.
- noun
any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
there is a hair in my soup
- noun
hairlike structure especially on the surface of a cell or microorganism
Word history
History of pilus
Learned borrowing from Latin pilus (“hair”).
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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
- Used about once in every 7 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.