accession
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When accession helps
Base Score
9
16 with pangram bonus
Unique Letters
7
A C E I N O S
Two-Letter Start
AC
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
ON
Check this pattern late
- 9 letters
- 7 unique letters
- AC start
- ON ending
- pangram-shaped
- repeated letters
Try it when
- accession is worth 9 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses exactly seven unique letters, which makes it a pangram candidate when the hive matches those letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (C x2, S x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The ON ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the AC start.
Pronunciation
noun
A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined
"a king's accession to a confederacy"
noun
Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
noun
A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).
noun
The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
noun
The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
noun
The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
noun
Agreement.
noun
Access; admittance.
verb
To make a record of (additions to a collection).
Related Words
Same Letters
- accessions
- ascensions
- ascension
Antonyms
- deaccession