octoroon

Plural: octoroons

Noun

Historically, a person of one-eighth Black ancestry.
an offspring of a quadroon and a white parent; a person who is one-eighth black
Someone having one-eighth black ancestry.
Someone having 1/64th black ancestry: the child of a quintoon and a white man.

Examples

He found OCTOROON to be a valid, albeit sensitive, word to play in Words With Friends.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish octorón, compare quadroon from cuarterón (“quadroon”).

Synonyms

mustee

Scrabble Score: 10

octoroon: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
octoroon: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
octoroon: not valid in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

octoroon: valid Words With Friends Word