path
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When path helps
Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
A H P T
Two-Letter Start
PA
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
TH
Check this pattern late
- 4 letters
- 4 unique letters
- PA start
- TH ending
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- path 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, h, p, t plus any remaining hive letters.
- The TH ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the PA start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
Pronunciation
noun
A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
noun
A course taken.
"the path of a meteor, of a caravan, or of a storm"
noun
A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
noun
A metaphorical course.
noun
A method or direction of proceeding.
noun
A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.
noun
A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
noun
A continuous map f from the unit interval I = [0,1] to a topological space X.
noun
A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.
verb
To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
noun
(abbreviation) Pathology.