tent
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How tent fits the hive
Base Score
1
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
3
E N T
Two-Letter Start
TE
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Ending
NT
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- 4 letters
- 3 unique letters
- TE start
- NT ending
- repeated letters
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- tent is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 3 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include e, n, t plus any remaining hive letters.
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Pronunciation
Definitions
noun
A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
"We were camping in a three-man tent."
noun
The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
noun
A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
noun
A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
verb
To go camping.
"We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend."
verb
To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
verb
To form into a tent-like shape.
"The sheet tented over his midsection."
noun
Attention; regard, care.
noun
Intention; design.
verb
To attend to; to heed
verb
To guard; to hinder.
noun
A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
noun
A probe for searching a wound.
verb
(sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
"to tent a wound"
noun
A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.
Related Words
Same Letters
- entente
- tenet
- teen