Breves
6 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Plural of breve, referring to the curved diacritical marks placed over vowels to indicate a short or unstressed sound.
“The linguist annotated the text with breves to show which vowels were short.”
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Wordle
The V in the middle makes this distinctive, ends in -ES which is a common pattern worth probing
Scrabble
The V scores 4 points, BREVES plays cleanly off BREVE with the S hook
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