trice
verb / noun
Meaning
- verbTo pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply.
- nounNow only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.
- nounA pulley, a windlass (“form of winch for lifting heavy weights, comprising a cable or rope wound around a cylinder”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Less common
- #2,382 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 97% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None