patsy
noun / verb
Meaning
- nounA person who is easily manipulated, victimized, or made to take the blame for something.
- verbTo treat (a person) as a patsy or sucker; to pin the blame on.
- nounA conspirator, secretly designated by co-conspirators to take full blame and punishment for a wrongdoing, particularly an assassination; a fall guy.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Less common
- #2,464 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 70% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 1 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None