ballast
Ballast commonly means to make steady with a ballast. As a noun, ballast can refer to any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship, coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads, or an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings.
Length
7
Scrabble
9
WWF
12
Starts
BA
Ends
AST
Difficulty
Medium
Dictionary
What Does “BALLAST” Mean?
/ˈbæl.əst/
ballast has 6 documented senses across noun, verb.
Noun
5 sensesany heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads
an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings
a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations)
Synonyms
an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps
Verb
1 sensemake steady with a ballast
Synonyms for BALLAST
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
7
Vowels
2
Consonants
5
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Definition
any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship
Length
7 letters
Starts With
B
Ends With
T
Vowels
2
Consonants
5
Letters
B, A, L, L, A, S, T
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★☆☆BALLAST has a Scrabble score of 9. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆BALLAST is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆BALLAST can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 7-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆BALLAST contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
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Unique Letters
5
Repeated Letters
2
Highest Value Letter
B
Letter Pattern
ABCCBDE
CV Pattern
CVCCVCC
Vowel Share
29%
Consonant Share
71%
Bigrams
BA, AL, LL, LA, AS, ST
Trigrams
BAL, ALL, LLA, LAS, AST
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