stave
noun / verb
Meaning
- nounOne of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.
- verbTo fit or furnish with staves or rundles. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
- nounOne of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Common
- #1,627 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 91% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None