excel
verb
Meaning
- verbTo surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something.
Example:
I excelled everyone else with my exam results.
- verbTo do much better than usual.
Example:
Everyone agreed Magnus really excelled himself this tournament.
- verbTo be much better than others.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Very common
- #853 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 11% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 4 · Repeated letters: e