aspirate
Aspirate can refer to a consonant pronounced with aspiration or a speech sound having as an obvious concomitant an audible puff of breath, as initial stop consonants or initial /h/ sounds. As a verb, aspirate can mean to pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds, inhale (air, water, etc.), or remove by suction.
Length
8
Scrabble
10
WWF
11
Starts
AS
Ends
ATE
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “ASPIRATE” Mean?
/ˈæs.pəɹ.ət/
aspirate has 5 documented senses across noun, verb.
Noun
2 sensesa consonant pronounced with aspiration
a speech sound having as an obvious concomitant an audible puff of breath, as initial stop consonants or initial /h/ sounds.
“The ‘p’ in English ‘pot’ is an aspirate, but the ‘p’ in ‘spot’ is not.”
Verb
3 sensesremove by suction
“aspirate the wound”
pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds
inhale (air, water, etc.)
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
8
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
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Definition
a consonant pronounced with aspiration
Length
8 letters
Starts With
A
Ends With
E
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
Letters
A, S, P, I, R, A, T, E
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
★★★★☆ASPIRATE has a Scrabble score of 10. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆ASPIRATE is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆ASPIRATE can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 8-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆ASPIRATE contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
7
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
P
Letter Pattern
ABCDEAFG
CV Pattern
VCCVCVCV
Vowel Share
50%
Consonant Share
50%
Bigrams
AS, SP, PI, IR, RA, AT, TE
Trigrams
ASP, SPI, PIR, IRA, RAT, ATE
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