labile
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When labile helps
Base Score
6
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
5
A B E I L
Two-Letter Start
LA
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
LE
Check this pattern late
- 6 letters
- 5 unique letters
- LA start
- LE ending
- repeated letters
Try it when
- labile is worth 6 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 5 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, b, e, i, l plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (L x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The LE ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the LA start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
Pronunciation
adjective
Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
adjective
Apt or likely to change.
adjective
(of a compound or bond) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).
"Certain drugs can be conjugated to polymer molecules with a linkage that is labile at low pH to effect controlled release in a cellular endosome."
adjective
(of a verb) Able to change valency without changing its form; especially, able to be used both transitively and intransitively without changing its form.