toll
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When toll helps
Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
3
L O T
Two-Letter Start
TO
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
LL
Check this pattern late
- 4 letters
- 3 unique letters
- TO start
- LL ending
- repeated letters
Try it when
- toll 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 l, o, t plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (L x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The LL ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the TO start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
Pronunciation
noun
Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
"The war has taken its toll on the people."
noun
A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
noun
A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
"We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending."
noun
A tollbooth.
"We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers."
noun
A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
noun
A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
verb
To impose a fee for the use of.
"Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges."
verb
To levy a toll on (someone or something).
verb
To take as a toll.
verb
To pay a toll or tallage.
noun
The act or sound of tolling
verb
To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
"Ask not for whom the bell tolls."
verb
To summon by ringing a bell.
"The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers."
verb
To announce by tolling.
"The bells tolled the King’s death."
verb
To draw; pull; tug; drag.
verb
To tear in pieces.
verb
To draw; entice; invite; allure.
"Hou many virgins shal she tolle and drawe to þe Lord - "Life of Our Lady""
verb
To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
verb
To take away; to vacate; to annul.
verb
To suspend.
"The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant’s wrongful conduct."