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taipan
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6 LETTERS6 POINTS[ˈtʌɪpan]
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When taipan helps
Base Score
6
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
5
A I N P T
Two-Letter Start
TA
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
AN
Check this pattern late
- 6 letters
- 5 unique letters
- TA start
- AN ending
- repeated letters
Try it when
- taipan is worth 6 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 5 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, i, n, p, t plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (A x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The AN ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the TA start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily page.
Pronunciation
[ˈtʌɪpan]
noun
A foreign businessman in China; a tycoon.
noun
Any venomous elapid snake of the genus Oxyuranus, found in Australia and New Guinea.
Related Words
Same Letters
- patina
- pinata
- inapt
- paint
- pinta