flabby
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How flabby fits the hive
Base Score
6
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
5
A B F L Y
Two-Letter Start
FL
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
BY
Useful for cleanup scans
- 6 letters
- 5 unique letters
- FL start
- BY ending
- repeated letters
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- flabby is worth 6 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 5 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, b, f, l, y plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (B x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The BY ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the FL start.
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Pronunciation
Definitions
adjective
Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.
adjective
(of wine) Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
adjective
(of writing, etc.) overwrought.
adjective
Which forms a surjection from the domain to every open subset of the codomain.
"a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space"
Related Words
Same Letters
- affably
Synonyms
- flat
Antonyms
- muscled
- taut