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quinin
6 letters · 4 distinct letters
quinin is in Nectary’s accepted word list, but we don’t have a definition for it yet.
Word history
History of quinine
The noun is either: derived from Spanish quina (“quinine”) (a clipping of quinaquina (“Cinchona bark”)) + English ine (suffix forming names of chemical substances, especially (among others) alkaloidal substances); or borrowed from French quinine, from quin(quina) (“Cinchona bark”) + ine (feminine form of in (suffix forming nouns)). Spanish quinaquina and French quinquina are both derived from Quechua kina kina, a reduplication of kina (“bark; (specifically) Cinchona bark”). The verb is derived from the noun.
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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.