dreg

Plural: dregs

Noun

Sediment at the bottom of a liquid; the least valuable part.
a small amount of residue
singular of dregs (“sediment in a liquid”)

Examples

After a long Scrabble session, the remaining tiles felt like the dreg of the letter bag.
to the last dreg

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse dregg (“sediment”), from Proto-Germanic *dragjō (whence also Icelandic dregg, Swedish drägg), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“sediment”); see also Latin fraces (“lees of oil”), Albanian ndrag (“to make dirty, foul”), dra (“sediments of dairy products or liquids”).

Scrabble Score: 6

dreg: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
dreg: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dreg: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

dreg: valid Words With Friends Word