circumlocutory
Circumlocutory is also used as adjective, with meanings including roundabout and unnecessarily wordy.
Length
14
Scrabble
25
WWF
31
Starts
CI
Ends
ORY
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “CIRCUMLOCUTORY” Mean?
circumlocutory has 1 documented sense across adjective.
Adjective
1 senseroundabout and unnecessarily wordy
“had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression”
“{'source': 'T.S.Eliot', 'text': 'A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, / Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle / With words and meanings.'}”
Synonyms for CIRCUMLOCUTORY
Scrabble Score
25
Letters
14
Vowels
5
Consonants
9
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Definition
roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
Length
14 letters
Starts With
C
Ends With
Y
Vowels
5
Consonants
9
Letters
C, I, R, C, U, M, L, O, C, U, T, O, R, Y
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
★★★★★CIRCUMLOCUTORY has a Scrabble score of 25. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆CIRCUMLOCUTORY is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆CIRCUMLOCUTORY can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 14-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆CIRCUMLOCUTORY contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
9
Repeated Letters
5
Highest Value Letter
Y
Letter Pattern
ABCADEFGADHGCI
CV Pattern
CVCCVCCVCVCVCC
Vowel Share
36%
Consonant Share
64%
Bigrams
CI, IR, RC, CU, UM, ML, LO, OC, CU, UT, TO, OR, RY
Trigrams
CIR, IRC, RCU, CUM, UML, MLO, LOC, OCU, CUT, UTO, TOR, ORY
Crossword Intelligence
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