color
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When color helps
Base Score
5
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
C L O R
Two-Letter Start
CO
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
OR
Check this pattern late
- 5 letters
- 4 unique letters
- CO start
- OR ending
- repeated letters
Try it when
- color is worth 5 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include c, l, o, r plus any remaining hive 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 CO start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
Pronunciation
noun
The spectral composition of visible light
"Humans and birds can perceive color."
noun
A subset thereof:
noun
A paint.
"The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape."
noun
Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
"Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies."
noun
Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
noun
A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
noun
Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
"Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?"
noun
A standard, flag, or insignia:
noun
(in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
"He was awarded colors for his football."
noun
(in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
noun
A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.
noun
A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
noun
The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color.)
noun
Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
noun
A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
noun
An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
"Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars."
verb
To give something color.
"We could color the walls red."
verb
To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
"My kindergartener loves to color."
verb
(of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.
"Her face colored as she realized her mistake."
verb
To affect without completely changing.
"That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book."
verb
To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
"Color me confused."
verb
To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
"Can this graph be 2-colored?"
adjective
Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
"Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white."