scale
noun / verb
Meaning
- nounA ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
- verbTo change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
Example:
We should scale that up by a factor of 10.
- nounPart of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Very common
- #216 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 97% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None