baste
verb / noun
Meaning
- verbTo sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
- verbTo sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
- nounA basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Less common
- #2,387 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 95% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None