Gallus
6 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
A suspender or brace used to hold up trousers, typically referred to in the plural form.
“He wore a pair of galluses over his flannel shirt in a decidedly old-fashioned style.”
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gal·lus
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Wordle
Double L with a -US ending covering vowels A and U, a less familiar word that can catch Wordle players off guard
Scrabble
Worth 7 points and the -US ending offers a clean hook for prefixes in board play
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