rune

About 0.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A letter, or character, used in the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
2. noun A letter from any visually similar script, such as Hungarian runes (the Old Hungarian script) or Turkic runes (the Old Turkic script).
3. noun A Finnic or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala.
4. noun A letter or mark used as a mystical or magic symbol.
5. noun A verse or song, especially one with mystical or mysterious overtones; a spell or an incantation.
6. noun Alternative form of roun (“secret or mystery”).
7. noun A Unicode code point.
8. verb To compose or perform poetry or songs.

Similar words

runic letter runestave runestaff bind rune bind-rune ethel stave charact thorn roman

Often followed by

of stone stones is in and poem for was

Word family

runes runic