letter bank
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.74 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "One form of wordplay that’s proved both popular and fruitful in the National Puzzlers’ League—but has been used rarely if at all in cryptic crosswords—is the letter bank."
- "If you started out with the northeast pair of “Revolutionary War heroes” at 28A and 13D, you could be really confused — NATHAN HALE and ETHAN ALLEN aren’t anagrams, but they’ve got the same number of letters in their names — and the same letters, which satisfies the rules of the letter bank game."
- "That said, there’s perhaps less scope for that worry in the “reverse” kind of letter-bank clue ... Flexible source of characters in Ecclesiastes (7) ... like this one for ELASTIC, yet I find I prefer those where the fodder is shorter than the answer."