Escallops is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 428 anagrams from letters in escallops (acellopss).
1425-75; late Middle English Middle French, Old French escalope, escalipe shell (of a nut, snail, etc.), perhaps Middle Dutch scelpe, scolpe mollusk shell (Dutch schelp; perhaps akin to
Gules, four fusils in fess or, each charged with an escallop sable (Cheney). St. James the Greater has the escallop shell and staff of the pilgrim. In conjunction with fish we may perhaps consider the escallop which, as a charge, belongs to the earliest period of Heraldry. But that cockleshell he stamped his shillings with—follow me—it was an escallop, and a mint-mark for that very year of Elizabeth. Per pale sable and or, a cheveron between three escallop shells, all counterchanged. Gardens are sometimes bordered with escallop shells, which are neat enough but seem rather out of place among flowers. On the western side are the rose and escallop shell, badges of the Dacres and Nevilles. Four fusils in fess, each charged with an escallop (Cheney). The badge of the Lords Dacre was an escallop united to a ragged staff, as in the margin.Examples for escallops