Carpel
6 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
One of the individual units making up the female reproductive part of a flower, functioning either as a simple pistil or as a single component of a compound pistil.
“The botanist identified three carpels fused together to form the compound pistil at the flower's centre.”
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car·pel
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Ends in EL, similar to CARPAL but with E instead of A at position 5, the P makes it a trickier Wordle solve
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Worth 10 points, the P scores 3, a botanical term that can surprise opponents unfamiliar with plant anatomy
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