backdoor
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When backdoor helps
Base Score
8
15 with pangram bonus
Unique Letters
7
A B C D K O R
Two-Letter Start
BA
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
OR
Check this pattern late
- 8 letters
- 7 unique letters
- BA start
- OR ending
- pangram-shaped
- repeated letters
Try it when
- backdoor is worth 8 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses exactly seven unique letters, which makes it a pangram candidate when the hive matches those letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (O x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The OR ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the BA start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
noun
A subsidiary entrance to a building or house at its rear, normally away from the street.
noun
A means of access, often secret and unprotected, to something.
noun
A secret means of access to a program or system.
noun
A rear side door of a car, or at the back of a van.
noun
The anus, generally used in reference to anal sex.
noun
The rear side of the hole, furthest from the golfer.
verb
To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed.
verb
To enter a tube by accelerating from behind; to surf into an already formed hollow wave, in contrast to the normal method of slowing to allow a surfable wave to form.