Lynx
4 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
A text-based web browser designed for use in terminal environments, capable of rendering web pages as formatted plain text.
“The developer used lynx to quickly inspect the page structure from the command line without a graphical browser.”
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LYNX contains both Y and X, two of the rarest Wordle letters, a high-risk, high-reward guess only if both are already confirmed
Scrabble
Worth 14 points (X scores 8, Y scores 4), one of the highest-scoring four-letter words in the game when those tiles are available
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