morass
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
See all 2 pronunciations Show less
Definition of morass
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
-
A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
“Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.”
See all 2 definitions Show less
noun
-
A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
“Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.”
-
(figuratively)Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.
“I wrote to Sacramento about that historical marker, and they've been kicking it around their bureaucratic morass for months.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Dutch moeras (“marsh, swamp”), an alteration (with influence from Dutch moer (“moor”)) of a direct descendant of Middle Dutch marasch (“marsh”). The Middle Dutch word is a borrowing from Old French mareis, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk. Doublet of marish and marsh, and linked in part to moor. Compare quagmire.
Words you can make from morass
53 playable · top: MORAS (7 pts)
Best play moras 7 points5-letter words
5 words4-letter words
19 words3-letter words
19 words2-letter words
9 wordsHooks
1 extension · 1 back
A single letter you can add to morass to make another valid word.
Back
Find your best play with morass
See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes morass, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.