farrago
Noun
- A confused mixture or jumble of disparate things.
- a motley assortment of things
- A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.
Examples
- His opponent’s rack was a FARRAGO of vowels, making any coherent word difficult to form.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin farrāgō (“mixed fodder; mixture, hodgepodge”), from far (“emmer (a kind of wheat), coarse meal, grits”). Doublet of farro.
Synonyms
gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag, Whitman's sampler, bouillabaisse, bric-a-brac, catch-all, clamjamfrey, cocktail, congeries, crazyquilt, disjecta membra, farrago, galimatias, grab bag, horse and rabbit stew, hotchpot, job lot, jumble, macedoine, medley, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, olio, olla podrida, pastiche, patchwork quilt, potpourri, salmagundi, slurry, smorgasbord, welter
Scrabble Score: 11
farrago: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfarrago: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
farrago: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary