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eaceworm

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
eace-worm
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An earthworm.

Archaic

Etymology

Dialectal forms eace, easse (“earthworm”) (from Middle English ees (“bait, carrion”), from Old English ǣs) + worm. Akin to Old High German ās (“carrion”), Latin esca (“food, bait”), Lithuanian edesis (“food”), Old English etan (“to eat”) — more at eat.

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Inflected Forms

eaceworms (plural)

Questions

What does eaceworm mean?
An earthworm.
Where does eaceworm come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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