Earwig is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 83 anagrams from letters in earwig (aegirw).
before 1000; Middle English erwigge, Old English ēarwicga ear insect; from the notion that it enters people's ears. See wiggle
The earwig is not more likely than any other insect to enter the ear.
This is equivalent to writing a natural history and leading off with panther and earwig.
From an earwig I obtained a filaria nearly five inches in length.
I must devote a short division of this chapter to the earwig.
I cannot really believe I am going to be an earwig or an emperor.
Neither man nor horse can enter, in this respect, into competition with the earwig.
(i) Reincarnation, as an earwig, or a Hottentot, or an emperor.
The care of the earwig not only extends to her eggs, but also to her young larv.
What shall I, this Me, do when I am an earwig or an emperor?
She had the intense maternal instinct and the brain, such as it is, of an earwig.