vanilla
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How vanilla fits the hive
Base Score
7
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
5
A I L N V
Two-Letter Start
VA
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
LA
Useful for cleanup scans
- 7 letters
- 5 unique letters
- VA start
- LA ending
- repeated letters
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- vanilla is worth 7 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 5 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, i, l, n, v plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (A x2, L x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The LA ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the VA start.
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Pronunciation
Definitions
noun
Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
noun
The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
noun
The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
noun
The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
"You can tell that the secret ingredient missing from New CokeTM was vanilla, because certain South American economies collapsed when it was introduced, and miraculously revived when the old formula was used again."
noun
Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
noun
(sexuality) Someone who is not into fetishism; a normophile
noun
An unmodded version of a game
noun
A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.
adjective
(of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla.
adjective
(retronym) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
"vanilla JavaScript"
adjective
(sexuality) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
adjective
Plain; conventional; unimaginative.
Related Words
Same Letters
- vanillin
- villain
- anvil
Synonyms
- imitationvanilla
- vanillabean
- vanillaextract
- normophilic
- vanillar