alarm
Alarm can refer to a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event, fear resulting from the awareness of danger, or an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger. As a verb, alarm can mean to warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness or fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised.
Length
5
Scrabble
7
WWF
9
Starts
AL
Ends
ARM
Difficulty
Medium
Dictionary
What Does “ALARM” Mean?
/əˈlɑːm/
alarm has 6 documented senses across noun, verb.
Noun
4 sensesfear resulting from the awareness of danger
Synonyms
a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time
Verb
2 senseswarn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
“The empty house alarmed him”
“We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries”
Synonyms
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
5
Vowels
2
Consonants
3
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Definition
fear resulting from the awareness of danger
Length
5 letters
Starts With
A
Ends With
M
Vowels
2
Consonants
3
Letters
A, L, A, R, M
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
Letter Breakdown
Word Facts
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Word Strategy
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★☆☆ALARM has a Scrabble score of 7. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★★★☆ALARM is a five-letter word, so it can be considered in Wordle-style solving. It includes common vowel information that can help narrow guesses.
Crossword Strategy
★★★★☆ALARM can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 5-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆ALARM contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
4
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
M
Letter Pattern
ABACD
CV Pattern
VCVCC
Vowel Share
40%
Consonant Share
60%
Bigrams
AL, LA, AR, RM
Trigrams
ALA, LAR, ARM
Crossword Intelligence
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