stemmatology

NOUN
12 LETTERS · STARTS WITH S

stemmatology is a valid 12-letter word worth 20 points in Scrabble and 23 points in Words with Friends.

SCRABBLE WORDS WITH FRIENDS
S1T1E1M3M3A1T1O1L1O1G2Y4
1 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 4 =20 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 40TRIPLE WORD → 60
MEANING

What does stemmatology mean?

NOUN · 1 SENSE
1

The humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis).

“stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology”

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