Cupels
6 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Plural of cupel: small porous bowls made from bone ash, used in assaying to separate precious metals such as gold or silver from base metals like lead.
“The assayer placed the ore samples in cupels before heating them in the furnace.”
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CUPELS contains C, U, P, E, L, S with no repeated letters, a useful guess for testing several common letters at once
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CUPELS scores 10 points, a valid plural of a specialist assaying term that can catch opponents unaware
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