local
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How local fits the hive
Base Score
5
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
4
A C L O
Two-Letter Start
LO
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
AL
Useful for cleanup scans
- 5 letters
- 4 unique letters
- LO start
- AL ending
- repeated letters
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- local is worth 5 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, c, l, o plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (L x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The AL ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the LO start.
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Pronunciation
Definitions
noun
A person who lives near a given place.
"It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists."
noun
A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
"I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6."
noun
A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
"The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local."
noun
One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
"I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink."
noun
A locally scoped identifier.
"Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable."
noun
An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
adjective
From or in a nearby location.
"We prefer local produce."
adjective
(of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
adjective
(of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
adjective
Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
"The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia."
adjective
Descended from an indigenous population.
"Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population."
adverb
In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
"It's never been more important to buy local."
noun
An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.
Related Words
Same Letters
- callaloo
- cloaca
- coal
- cola
Synonyms
- stopper
- topical
Antonyms
- express
- fast
- global