avaricious
Avaricious is also used as adjective, with meanings including immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth.
Length
10
Scrabble
15
WWF
18
Starts
AV
Ends
OUS
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “AVARICIOUS” Mean?
/ˌævəˈɹɪʃəs/
avaricious has 1 documented sense across adjective.
Adjective
1 senseimmoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
“they are avaricious and will do anything for money”
“casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields”
“a grasping old miser”
“grasping commercialism”
Synonyms for AVARICIOUS
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
10
Vowels
6
Consonants
4
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Definition
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
Length
10 letters
Starts With
A
Ends With
S
Vowels
6
Consonants
4
Letters
A, V, A, R, I, C, I, O, U, S
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★★AVARICIOUS has a Scrabble score of 15. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆AVARICIOUS is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆AVARICIOUS can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 10-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆AVARICIOUS 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
2
Highest Value Letter
V
Letter Pattern
ABACDEDFGH
CV Pattern
VCVCVCVVVC
Vowel Share
60%
Consonant Share
40%
Bigrams
AV, VA, AR, RI, IC, CI, IO, OU, US
Trigrams
AVA, VAR, ARI, RIC, ICI, CIO, IOU, OUS
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