click
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When click helps
Base Score
5
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
C I K L
Two-Letter Start
CL
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
CK
Check this pattern late
- 5 letters
- 4 unique letters
- CL start
- CK ending
- repeated letters
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- click is worth 5 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include c, i, k, l plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (C x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The CK ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the CL start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
Pronunciation
noun
A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock or a latch, or a finger pressed against the thumb and then released to strike the hand.
"I turned the key, the lock gave a click and the door opened; a click of one’s fingers"
noun
An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
noun
Sound made by a dolphin.
noun
The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
noun
The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
noun
A pawl or similar catch.
verb
To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
verb
To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
verb
To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
verb
To visit a web site.
"Visit a location, call, or click www.example.com."
verb
To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
"From the home page, click through to the Products section."
verb
To emit a click.
"He bent his fingers back until the joints clicked."
verb
To make sense suddenly.
"Then it clicked - I had been going the wrong way all that time."
verb
To get on well.
"When we met at the party, we just clicked and we’ve been best friends ever since."
verb
To tick.
verb
To take (a photograph) with a camera.
interjection
The sound of a click.
"Click! The door opened."
noun
A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
noun
The latch of a door.
noun
A kilometer.
noun
(usually in the plural) Kilometres per hour.
verb
To snatch.