Words · Rare
potto
5 letters · 3 distinct letters
- noun
arboreal fruit eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail
- noun
a kind of gray brown lemur (Perodicticus potto)
Word history
From a West African language; compare Akan apɔsɔ.
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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
- Rarer than once in ten million words.
- In the spelling bee
- Bonus word Words found only in the largest list score as bonus words rather than daily answers.