terne
adjective / noun
Meaning
- adjectiveColourless, drab, dull.
- nounAn alloy coating made of lead and tin (or, more recently, zinc and tin), often with some antimony, used to cover iron or steel.
- nounObsolete spelling of tern (“any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sternidae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail”). .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Rare – accepted as a guess
- #6,844 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Accepted as a guess, never an answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 77% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 4 · Repeated letters: e