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tilapia
7 letters · 5 distinct letters
tilapia is in Nectary’s accepted word list, but we don’t have a definition for it yet.
Word history
Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Tilapia, from Tswana tlhapi (“fish”). The drag race slang usage is a reference to the comment by Gia Gunn on entering Ru Paul's Drag Race (season 6) "Just landed like fresh tilapia".
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Why this word counts
- Where it comes from
- Listed in the English Speller Database at size 60: a larger list with less common words.
- How common it is
- Used about once in every 2 million words.
- In the spelling bee
- Bonus word Every daily answer comes with a definition, and we don’t have one for this word yet.