Cudbear
7 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
A purple or violet dye extracted from orchil lichens, historically used to colour wool and other textiles.
“The weaver used cudbear to achieve a rich purple hue in the finest lengths of woollen cloth.”
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cud·bear
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Starts with CUD, ends in -EAR, an unusual combination of letters unlikely to feature in Wordle
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Scrabble
Worth 12 points, a rare dye term that uses B and D efficiently, worth memorising for Scrabble
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