throe
noun / verb
Meaning
- nounA severe pang or spasm of pain, especially one experienced when the uterus contracts during childbirth, or when a person is about to die. The pain of labour or childbirth; the suffering of death.
- verbTo cause (someone) to feel throes, as if in childbirth; to put in agony.
- nounSynonym of froe (“a cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Rare – accepted as a guess
- #6,544 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 95% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None