comma
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When comma helps
Base Score
5
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
A C M O
Two-Letter Start
CO
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
MA
Check this pattern late
- 5 letters
- 4 unique letters
- CO start
- MA ending
- repeated letters
Try it when
- comma is worth 5 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, c, m, o plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (M x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The MA ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the CO start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
Pronunciation
noun
The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
noun
A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
noun
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
noun
A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
noun
A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
noun
In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
noun
A brief interval.
verb
To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.