slick
adjective / noun / verb
Meaning
- adjectiveSlippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
Example:
This rain is making the roads slick.
- nounA covering of liquid, particularly oil.
Example:
Careful in turn three — there's an oil slick on the road.
- verbTo make slick.
Example:
The surface had been slicked.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Very common
- #881 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 37% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 1 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None