cilia
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How cilia fits the hive
Base Score
5
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
4
A C I L
Two-Letter Start
CI
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
IA
Useful for cleanup scans
- 5 letters
- 4 unique letters
- CI start
- IA ending
- repeated letters
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- cilia is worth 5 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, c, i, l plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (I x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The IA ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the CI start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 4 published Daily pages.
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Definitions
noun
Hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of a plant organ.
noun
A hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell (such as a unicellular organism or one cell of a multicelled organism). These structures serve either for locomotion by moving or as sensors.
noun
One of the fine hairs along an insect's wing.
Related Words
Same Letters
- laical
- iliac
- lilac
- laic