pain
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When pain helps
Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
A I N P
Two-Letter Start
PA
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
IN
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- 4 letters
- 4 unique letters
- PA start
- IN ending
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- pain is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, i, n, p plus any remaining hive letters.
- The IN ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the PA start.
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Pronunciation
noun
An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
"I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet."
noun
The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
"In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life."
noun
(from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
"Your mother is a right pain."
noun
Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
"You may not leave this room on pain of death."
noun
(chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
verb
To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
"The wound pained him."
verb
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
"It pains me to say that I must let you go."
verb
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
noun
Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
"gammon pain; Spanish pain"
Related Words
Same Letters
- panini
- apian
- nipa
Synonyms
- pest
Antonyms
- pleasure