Buoyed
6 lettersverbmoderateUpdated June 2026
Definition
Past tense of buoy, meaning to have lifted someone's spirits and confidence, or to have marked a waterway with a floating navigational marker.
“The team was buoyed by the manager's confidence in them ahead of the crucial final match.”
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discourageddeflated
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Contains four vowels in six letters, the unusual UO combination at the start makes this one of the trickier six-letter Wordle guesses
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Scrabble
Y scores 4 points, the dense vowel cluster BUOY is valuable for clearing multiple vowels at once from a crowded rack
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