unch
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Abbreviation of unchanged (“of a stock price: having closed at the same price at which it opened”).
Example Sentences
- "The Sympathy Crossword Grid Editor supports: ... o flagging of lights outside a configurable unch range"
- "From 1933 onwards the grids were standard grids. Then, for some reason, there was a blip in the late 1940s, a couple of the grids from that era had double unches and double checking."
- "The bars and multitude of black squares are common in British puzzles because they allow unchecked letters (called unches)—or letters that don't need to cross with another answer.... There are rules regarding the unches, and traditionally every other letter in a solution should be checked with another letter."