basil
noun / verb
Meaning
- nounA plant (Ocimum basilicum).
- nounThe angle to which a joiner's tool is ground away.
- verbTo grind the edge of a tool to an acute angle.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Common
- #1,854 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 69% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None