plain
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When plain helps
Base Score
5
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
5
A I L N P
Two-Letter Start
PL
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
IN
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- 5 letters
- 5 unique letters
- PL start
- IN ending
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- plain is worth 5 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 5 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, i, l, n, p plus any remaining hive letters.
- The IN ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the PL start.
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Pronunciation
adjective
Flat, level.
adjective
Simple.
adjective
Obvious.
adjective
Open.
adjective
Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
"Throughout high school she worried that she had a rather plain face."
adjective
Not a trump.
adverb
Simply.
"I plain forgot."
adverb
Plainly; distinctly.
"Tell me plain: do you love me or no?"
noun
A lamentation.
verb
To complain.
verb
To lament, bewail.
"to plain a loss"
noun
A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
"There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field."
noun
A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
"A crop circle was made in a corn field."
noun
A place where competitive matches are carried out.
noun
Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.
noun
An expanse of land with relatively low relief, usually exclusive of forests, deserts, and wastelands.
verb
To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
verb
To make plain or manifest; to explain.
noun
A level or flat surface.
noun
A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
noun
A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane)
noun
A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.
noun
(Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.
noun
An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
noun
A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
noun
An airplane; an aeroplane.
noun
Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight. Also called aeroplanes.
noun
The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.
noun
A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
noun
(Northern UK) A sycamore.
Related Words
Synonyms
- frank
- sincere
- consarn
- darned
- stinking
- nofrills
- simple
- unadorned
- unseasoned
- normal
- ordinary
- blatant
Antonyms
- bellsandwhistles
- decorative
- exotic
- fancy
- ornate