origin
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When origin helps
Base Score
6
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
5
G I N O R
Two-Letter Start
OR
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
IN
Check this pattern late
- 6 letters
- 5 unique letters
- OR start
- IN ending
- repeated letters
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- origin is worth 6 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 5 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include g, i, n, o, r plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (I x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The IN ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the OR start.
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Pronunciation
noun
The beginning of something.
noun
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
noun
The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
noun
The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
noun
An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
noun
(in the plural) Ancestry.
Related Words
Same Letters
- ignoring
- gorging
- ironing
- goring
- gringo
- groin
Synonyms
- source
- zerovector
Antonyms
- insertion
- end
- destination