banana
Banana can refer to elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh or any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
Length
6
Scrabble
8
WWF
11
Starts
BA
Ends
ANA
Difficulty
Medium
Dictionary
What Does “BANANA” Mean?
/bəˈnɑːnə/
banana has 2 documented senses across noun.
Noun
2 sensesany of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits
elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
6
Vowels
3
Consonants
3
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Definition
any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits
Length
6 letters
Starts With
B
Ends With
A
Vowels
3
Consonants
3
Letters
B, A, N, A, N, A
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★☆☆BANANA has a Scrabble score of 8. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆BANANA is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★★☆BANANA can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 6-letter structure.
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★★★☆☆BANANA contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
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Unique Letters
3
Repeated Letters
3
Highest Value Letter
B
Letter Pattern
ABCBCB
CV Pattern
CVCVCV
Vowel Share
50%
Consonant Share
50%
Bigrams
BA, AN, NA, AN, NA
Trigrams
BAN, ANA, NAN, ANA
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