river
noun / verb
Meaning
- nounA large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
Example:
Occasionally rivers overflow their banks and cause floods.
- verbTo improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
Example:
Johnny rivered me by drawing that ace of spades.
- nounOne who rives or splits.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Very common
- #148 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 43% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 4 · Repeated letters: r