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avidity
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7 LETTERS7 POINTS
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When avidity helps
Base Score
7
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
6
A D I T V Y
Two-Letter Start
AV
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
TY
Check this pattern late
- 7 letters
- 6 unique letters
- AV start
- TY ending
- repeated letters
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- avidity is worth 7 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 6 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, d, i, t, v, y plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (I x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The TY ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the AV start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
noun
Greediness; strong appetite.
noun
Eagerness; intenseness of desire.
"to eat with avidity"
noun
The measure of the synergism of the strength of individual interactions between proteins.