Stopes
6 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Marie Stopes, the British birth-control campaigner (1880 to 1958) who opened the first birth control clinic in London in 1921.
“The work of Stopes transformed public debate around family planning in early twentieth-century Britain.”
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Wordle
Contains O and E as vowels, STOPE is a valid mining term so the S ending is a natural plural form.
Scrabble
Worth 8 points, as a proper noun Stopes is not valid in standard Scrabble, but STOPES as a mining-term plural is accepted.
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