spiky
adjective
Meaning
- adjectiveOf a plant: producing spikes (“ears (as of corn); inflorescences in which sessile flowers are arranged on unbranched elongated axes”).
- adjectiveHaving one or more spikes; spiny.
- adjectiveOf a plant part: resembling a spike of a plant (see above).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Common
- #1,979 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 23% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 1 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None