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cocci
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When cocci helps
Base Score
5
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
3
C I O
Two-Letter Start
CO
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
CI
Check this pattern late
- 5 letters
- 3 unique letters
- CO start
- CI ending
- repeated letters
Try it when
- cocci is worth 5 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 3 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include c, i, o plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (C x3); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The CI ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the CO start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 2 published Daily snapshots.
noun
Any approximately spherical bacterium.
noun
One of the carpels or seed-vessels of a dry fruit.
noun
Coccidioidomycosis