kink
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When kink helps
Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
3
I K N
Two-Letter Start
KI
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
NK
Check this pattern late
- 4 letters
- 3 unique letters
- KI start
- NK ending
- repeated letters
Try it when
- kink is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 3 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include i, k, n plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (K x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The NK ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the KI start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
Pronunciation
noun
A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying.
verb
To laugh loudly.
verb
To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing.
noun
A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc.
"We couldn't get enough water to put out the fire because of a kink in the hose."
noun
A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system.
"They had planned to open another shop downtown, but their plan had a few kinks."
noun
An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
noun
Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste.
noun
A positive 1-soliton solution to the Sine–Gordon equation
verb
To form a kink or twist.
verb
To be formed into a kink or twist.