archetype
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When archetype helps
Base Score
9
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
8
A C E H P R T Y
Two-Letter Start
AR
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
PE
Check this pattern late
- 9 letters
- 8 unique letters
- AR start
- PE ending
- repeated letters
- outside standard hive
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- archetype uses 8 unique letters, so it cannot fit a standard seven-letter hive.
Pronunciation
noun
An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype.
noun
An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
noun
A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
noun
According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
noun
(textual criticism) A protograph.
verb
To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.
Related Words
Same Letters
- heptarchy