board
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When board helps
Base Score
5
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
5
A B D O R
Two-Letter Start
BO
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
RD
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- 5 letters
- 5 unique letters
- BO start
- RD ending
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- board is worth 5 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 5 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, b, d, o, r plus any remaining hive letters.
- The RD ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the BO start.
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Pronunciation
noun
A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
noun
A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
noun
A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
"Each player starts the game with four counters on the board."
noun
Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, message board (on the Internet), etc.
noun
A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
"We have to wait to hear back from the board."
noun
Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
"Room and board"
noun
The side of a ship.
noun
The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
noun
The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink, often in plural.
noun
A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
noun
Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
"to bind a book in boards"
noun
A level or stage having a particular layout.
noun
A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
verb
To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
"It is time to board the aircraft."
verb
To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
"to board one's horse at a livery stable"
verb
To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
verb
To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
verb
To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
verb
To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
verb
To cover with boards or boarding.
"to board a house"
verb
To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
verb
To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
noun
A rebound.