prune
noun / verb
Meaning
- nounA plum.
- verbTo become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
- verbTo remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
Example:
A good grape grower will prune the vines once a year.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Common
- #1,723 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 83% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None