brood
Brood can refer to the young of an animal cared for at one time. As a verb, brood can mean to think moodily or anxiously about something, be in a huff and display one's displeasure, or hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing.
Length
5
Scrabble
8
WWF
9
Starts
BR
Ends
OOD
Difficulty
Medium
Dictionary
What Does “BROOD” Mean?
/bɹuːd/
brood has 6 documented senses across noun, verb.
Noun
1 sensethe young of an animal cared for at one time
Verb
5 sensesthink moodily or anxiously about something
“Sam and Sue brood over the results of the experiment”
Synonyms
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
5
Vowels
2
Consonants
3
Word Intelligence
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Definition
the young of an animal cared for at one time
Length
5 letters
Starts With
B
Ends With
D
Vowels
2
Consonants
3
Letters
B, R, O, O, D
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★☆☆BROOD has a Scrabble score of 8. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★★★☆BROOD is a five-letter word, so it can be considered in Wordle-style solving. It includes common vowel information that can help narrow guesses.
Crossword Strategy
★★★★☆BROOD can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 5-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆BROOD contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
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Unique Letters
4
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
B
Letter Pattern
ABCCD
CV Pattern
CCVVC
Vowel Share
40%
Consonant Share
60%
Bigrams
BR, RO, OO, OD
Trigrams
BRO, ROO, OOD
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