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heddle
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When heddle helps
Base Score
6
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
D E H L
Two-Letter Start
HE
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
LE
Check this pattern late
- 6 letters
- 4 unique letters
- HE start
- LE ending
- repeated letters
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- heddle is worth 6 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include d, e, h, l plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (D x2, E x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The LE ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the HE start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
noun
A component in a loom, being one of a number of similar components, through the eye of each of which a distinct strand of the warp is threaded.
noun
One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.
verb
To thread each strand of the warp through the eye of a heddle.