Earworm is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 127 anagrams from letters in earworm (aemorrw).
1980-85; loan translation of German Ohrwurm ‘catchy tune, earwig’
But in the 1990s, the English word "earworm" gained the meaning "a song or melody that keeps repeating in one's mind."
The newer sense of "earworm" is actually influenced by the German word for this phenomenon—a word that translates to "earworm."
“Cups” has had the unlikeliest of journeys to summer earworm.
"earworm" has been around for quite some time to refer to a pest that burrows into the ears of corn.