drown
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When drown helps
Base Score
5
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
5
D N O R W
Two-Letter Start
DR
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
WN
Check this pattern late
- 5 letters
- 5 unique letters
- DR start
- WN ending
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- drown is worth 5 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 5 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include d, n, o, r, w plus any remaining hive letters.
- The WN ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the DR start.
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Pronunciation
verb
To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
verb
To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
verb
To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
verb
To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
verb
(usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
"The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather."
Related Words
Same Letters
- nonword
Synonyms
- flood
- inundate