cease
Cease commonly means to put an end to a state or an activity or have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical. As a noun, cease can refer to (‘cease’ is a noun only in the phrase ‘without cease’) end.
Length
5
Scrabble
7
WWF
8
Starts
CE
Ends
ASE
Difficulty
Medium
Dictionary
What Does “CEASE” Mean?
/siːs/
cease has 3 documented senses across noun, verb.
Noun
1 sense(‘cease’ is a noun only in the phrase ‘without cease’) end
Verb
2 sensesput an end to a state or an activity
“Quit teasing your little brother”
“They cease moving”
Synonyms
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
5
Vowels
3
Consonants
2
Word Intelligence
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Definition
(‘cease’ is a noun only in the phrase ‘without cease’) end
Length
5 letters
Starts With
C
Ends With
E
Vowels
3
Consonants
2
Letters
C, E, A, S, E
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
Letter Breakdown
Word Facts
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Word Strategy
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★☆☆CEASE has a Scrabble score of 7. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★★★☆CEASE 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
★★★★☆CEASE can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 5-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆CEASE contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
4
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
C
Letter Pattern
ABCDB
CV Pattern
CVVCV
Vowel Share
60%
Consonant Share
40%
Bigrams
CE, EA, AS, SE
Trigrams
CEA, EAS, ASE
Crossword Intelligence
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