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— English words —

• folk␣etymology n. A misunderstanding of the etymology of a word based on an inexpert analysis; an etymology that incorrectly…
• folk␣etymology n. A modification of a word or its spelling resulting from a misunderstanding of its etymology, as with…

— English word, defined in French —

• folk␣etymology n. (Linguistique) Étymologie populaire.

17 English words from 2 English definitions

analysis based based␣on etymology from incorrectly inexpert its misunderstanding modification of␣a resulting spelling that the with word

4 foreign words from the foreign definition

Étymologie Étymologie␣populaire Linguistique populaire

21 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ety -ety etym etymol. etymology FOL fol. folk Folk ket Ket log -log logy -logy mol Mol mol. Olk ology -ology

8 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

gol göl lof Lom LOM omy TEK ygo

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