clutch
Clutch can refer to a tense critical situation, a number of birds hatched at the same time, or a collection of things or persons to be handled together. As a verb, clutch can mean to take into your hands deliberately, hold firmly, usually with one's hands, or affect.
Length
6
Scrabble
13
WWF
16
Starts
CL
Ends
TCH
Difficulty
Medium
Dictionary
What Does “CLUTCH” Mean?
clutch has 10 documented senses across noun, verb.
Noun
7 sensesa tense critical situation
“he is a good man in the clutch”
a number of birds hatched at the same time
a collection of things or persons to be handled together
Synonyms
a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand
a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism
“he smoothly released the clutch with one foot and stepped on the gas with the other”
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a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism
“this year's model has an improved clutch”
Verb
3 senseshold firmly, usually with one's hands
“She clutched my arm when she got scared”
affect
“Fear seized the prisoners”
“The patient was seized with unbearable pains”
“He was seized with a dreadful disease”
Synonyms
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Vowels
1
Consonants
5
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Definition
the act of grasping
Length
6 letters
Starts With
C
Ends With
H
Vowels
1
Consonants
5
Letters
C, L, U, T, C, H
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
★★★★☆CLUTCH has a Scrabble score of 13. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆CLUTCH is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★★☆CLUTCH can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 6-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆CLUTCH contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
5
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
H
Letter Pattern
ABCDAE
CV Pattern
CCVCCC
Vowel Share
17%
Consonant Share
83%
Bigrams
CL, LU, UT, TC, CH
Trigrams
CLU, LUT, UTC, TCH
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