Otis
4 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Elisha Graves Otis (1811 to 1861), the American inventor who designed and manufactured the first passenger elevator fitted with an automatic safety device.
“Without the work of Otis, the modern skyscraper would not have been possible.”
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o·tis
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Wordle
All very common letters arranged in an uncommon order, OTIS contains the pattern OT and IS.
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As a proper noun it is not valid in standard Scrabble, worth only 4 points if counted.
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