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octoroon
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8 LETTERS8 POINTS
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How octoroon fits the hive
Base Score
8
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
5
C N O R T
Two-Letter Start
OC
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
ON
Useful for cleanup scans
- 8 letters
- 5 unique letters
- OC start
- ON ending
- repeated letters
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- octoroon is worth 8 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 5 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include c, n, o, r, t plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (O x4); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The ON ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the OC start.
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Definitions
noun
Someone having one-eighth black ancestry.
noun
Someone having 1/64th black ancestry: the child of a quintoon and a white man.
Related Words
Same Letters
- contort
- croton
Synonyms
- mustee