onto
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When onto helps
Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
3
N O T
Two-Letter Start
ON
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
TO
Check this pattern late
- 4 letters
- 3 unique letters
- ON start
- TO ending
- repeated letters
Try it when
- onto is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 3 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include n, o, t plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (O x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The TO ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the ON start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
Pronunciation
adjective
(of a function) Assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain.
"Considered as a function on the real numbers, the exponential function is not onto."
preposition
Upon; on top of.
"My cat just jumped onto the keyboard."
preposition
Aware of.
"The thought-police were onto my plans of world domination."
preposition
Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below).
"The exponential function maps the set of real numbers onto the set of positive real numbers."