coded
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When coded helps
Base Score
5
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
C D E O
Two-Letter Start
CO
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
ED
Check this pattern late
- 5 letters
- 4 unique letters
- CO start
- ED ending
- repeated letters
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- coded is worth 5 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include c, d, e, o plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (D x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The ED ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the CO start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily page.
verb
To write software programs.
"I learned to code on an early home computer in the 1980s."
verb
To add codes to a dataset.
verb
To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
verb
To encode.
"We should code the messages we send out on Usenet."
verb
To encode a protein.
verb
To call a hospital emergency code.
"coding in the CT scanner"
verb
Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
adjective
Encoded; written in code or cipher.
Related Words
Same Letters
- decoded
- decode
- cooed
- code
- coed
- deco