agate
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When agate helps
Base Score
5
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
A E G T
Two-Letter Start
AG
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
TE
Check this pattern late
- 5 letters
- 4 unique letters
- AG start
- TE ending
- repeated letters
Try it when
- agate is worth 5 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, e, g, t plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (A x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The TE ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the AG start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
Pronunciation
noun
A semi-pellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
noun
The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5 1/2-point.
noun
One fourteenth of an inch
noun
A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
noun
A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
noun
A marble made from agate.
noun
(usually in the plural) A testicle.
adverb
On the way; agoing.
"to be agate; to set the bells agate"