Hydrae
6 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Plural form of hydra, referring to the many-headed serpentine monsters of Greek mythology whose severed heads were each replaced by two new ones, or to members of the genus of small freshwater organisms.
“The scholar's lecture compared the proliferating obstacles to the hydrae of ancient legend.”
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Y acts as a vowel-adjacent sound, the YDRAE ending is very unusual in English spelling
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Worth 13 points, Y scores 4 and the AE ending provides vowel efficiency for the rack
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