The curved path of one object around a point or another body. An elliptical movement of an object about a celestial object or Lagrange point, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
An elliptical movement of an object about a celestial object or Lagrange point, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
One complete circuit round an orbited body.
To circle or revolve around another object or position.
“The Moon's orbit around the Earth takes nearly one month to complete.”
ORBIT is a 5-letter word with 2 vowels (O, I) and 3 consonants (R, B, T). Every letter is distinct, so it rarely punishes a clean opening guess.
It leans on high-frequency letters (O, R, I, T), so a strong vowel-and-common-consonant opener tends to light up quickly. There are no rare letters here, so it is a fair, mid-difficulty answer for the daily Classic puzzle.
Across the 1,734 curated answers in the Wordocious bank, R appears in 37% of answers (the 3rd most common letter), T appears in 30% of answers (the 4th most common letter), O appears in 30% of answers (the 5th most common letter). 2 other answers share the opening “OR-”, so two purple tiles up front still leave real guessing to do.
Difficulty: 1/5 — very approachable, because its letters are common and no close neighbors compete with it.
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Definitions adapted from Wiktionary via the Free Dictionary API (CC BY-SA). Letter statistics, difficulty ratings, and near-miss analysis are original Wordocious research computed from our curated answer list.
