Becalm
6 lettersverbrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
To make calm and still, or to leave a sailing vessel unable to move by depriving it of wind.
“The sudden stillness threatened to becalm the entire fleet in the middle of the channel.”
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be·calm
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Starts BE, contains C, A, L, M with no repeated letters. A good guess for testing common mid-word consonants.
Scrabble
Worth 12 points, the M is moderately valuable and the word uses a clean set of tiles, though -CALM offers few natural hooks.
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