pant
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When pant helps
Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
A N P T
Two-Letter Start
PA
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
NT
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- 4 letters
- 4 unique letters
- PA start
- NT ending
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- pant 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, n, p, t plus any remaining hive letters.
- The NT ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the PA start.
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Pronunciation
noun
A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
noun
Eager longing.
noun
A violent palpitation of the heart.
verb
To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
verb
To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
verb
To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
verb
Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
verb
To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
verb
To heave, as the breast.
verb
To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
noun
A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
noun
(used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.
"Pant leg"
noun
(Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.
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Synonyms
- gasp
- crave
- desire
- long
- pine
- palpitate
- pound
- throb