armonica

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8

Definition of armonica

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A musical instrument made of blown-glass bowls mounted on a spindle turned originally by a foot pedal, and played with wetted fingers, producing an ethereal sound. Technically, it is a crystallophone.

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Etymology

Coined by Benjamin Franklin, its inventor; built on Italian armonia (“harmony”). Glass harmonica is a corruption of Franklin's original word, a back-formation influenced by harmonica (a reed instrument invented sixty years later).

Words you can make from armonica

167 playable · top: MACARONI (12 pts)

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8-letter words

1 word

7-letter words

7 words

6-letter words

16 words

5-letter words

32 words

4-letter words

52 words

3-letter words

43 words

2-letter words

15 words

Hooks

2 extensions · 1 front · 1 back

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