blob
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How blob fits the hive
Base Score
1
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
3
B L O
Two-Letter Start
BL
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
OB
Useful for cleanup scans
- 4 letters
- 3 unique letters
- BL start
- OB ending
- repeated letters
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- blob is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 3 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include b, l, o plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (B x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The OB ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the BL start.
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Pronunciation
Definitions
noun
A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
noun
In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.
noun
A bubble; a bleb.
noun
A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
noun
The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.
noun
A score of zero.
verb
To drop in the form of a blob or blobs
verb
To drop a blob or blobs onto, cover with blobs.
verb
To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
verb
To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
noun
Acronym of binary large object. (a data type that allows storage of binary data often of indeterminate length).
"I've added a BLOB so that we can store pictures."
Related Words
Same Letters
- boll
- bolo
- lobo