trochil
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 7
Definition of trochil
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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The crocodile bird, Pluvianus aegyptius.
“1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique., 2. ed. revised and enlarged. The crocodile […] opens his chaps to let the trochil in to pick his teeth, which gives it the usual feeding.”
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Etymology
From Latin trochilus (“a small bird”, probably applied to a wren).
Words you can make from trochil
84 playable · top: ORCHIL (11 pts)
Best play orchil 11 points6-letter words
4 words5-letter words
16 words4-letter words
30 words- CHIT 9 pts
- ITCH 9 pts
- LICH 9 pts
- LOCH 9 pts
- RICH 9 pts
- HILT 7 pts
- HOLT 7 pts
- LOTH 7 pts
- THIO 7 pts
- THIR 7 pts
- THRO 7 pts
- CLIT 6 pts
- CLOT 6 pts
- COIL 6 pts
- COIR 6 pts
- COLT 6 pts
- CRIT 6 pts
- LOCI 6 pts
- OTIC 6 pts
- TORC 6 pts
- LOTI 4 pts
- RIOT 4 pts
- ROIL 4 pts
- ROTI 4 pts
- ROTL 4 pts
- TIRL 4 pts
- TIRO 4 pts
- TOIL 4 pts
- TORI 4 pts
- TRIO 4 pts
3-letter words
23 words2-letter words
10 wordsHooks
2 extensions · 2 back
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