atrocious
Atrocious is also used as adjective, with meanings including shockingly brutal or cruel.
Length
9
Scrabble
11
WWF
13
Starts
AT
Ends
OUS
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “ATROCIOUS” Mean?
/əˈtɹəʊʃəs/
atrocious has 3 documented senses across adjective.
Adjective
3 sensesshockingly brutal or cruel
“murder is an atrocious crime”
“a grievous offense against morality”
“a grievous crime”
“no excess was too monstrous for them to commit”
Synonyms
exceptionally bad or displeasing
“atrocious taste”
“abominable workmanship”
“an awful voice”
“dreadful manners”
provoking horror
“an atrocious automobile accident”
“a frightful crime of decapitation”
“an alarming, even horrifying, picture”
“{'source': 'Winston Churchill', 'text': 'war is beyond all words horrible'}”
Synonyms
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
9
Vowels
5
Consonants
4
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Definition
shockingly brutal or cruel
Length
9 letters
Starts With
A
Ends With
S
Vowels
5
Consonants
4
Letters
A, T, R, O, C, I, O, U, S
Use Case
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★☆ATROCIOUS has a Scrabble score of 11. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆ATROCIOUS is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆ATROCIOUS can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 9-letter structure.
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★★★☆☆ATROCIOUS contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
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Unique Letters
8
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
C
Letter Pattern
ABCDEFDGH
CV Pattern
VCCVCVVVC
Vowel Share
56%
Consonant Share
44%
Bigrams
AT, TR, RO, OC, CI, IO, OU, US
Trigrams
ATR, TRO, ROC, OCI, CIO, IOU, OUS
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