scant
adjective / verb / determiner
Meaning
- adjectiveNot full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.
Example:
a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment
- verbTo limit in amount or share; to stint.
Example:
to scant someone in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries
- determinerVery little, very few.
Example:
After his previous escapades, Mary had scant reason to believe John.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Common
- #1,546 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 80% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 1 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None