would
verb / noun / interjection
Meaning
- verbPast tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive. Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
Example:
On my first day at University, I met the woman who would become my wife.
- nounSomething that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
- interjectionEllipsis of I would, used to denote that the speaker finds another person sexually attractive.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Very common
- #5 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 19% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None