baseling

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8

Definition of baseling

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (rare)One who is base or inferior
    “O weaklings, baselings we, — Achaian women, and not men!”
    “Why lift aloft the baseling? give the sword To unanointed hands? garland the brow Which virtue never crowned? […]”
    “Or again, the world's simpletons, the world's nonentities, the world's weaklings and baselings (i.e., elements deemed such by the world) the chosen things, the very elements of God's selection for the kingdom, […]”

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Etymology

From Middle English baseling (attested only in the sense of debased coinage), equivalent to base + -ling.

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