colony
Colony can refer to a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together, a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated, or a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country.
Length
6
Scrabble
11
WWF
13
Starts
CO
Ends
ONY
Difficulty
Medium
Dictionary
What Does “COLONY” Mean?
/ˈkɒ.lə.ni/
colony has 6 documented senses across noun.
Noun
6 sensesa body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
“the American colony in Paris”
Synonyms
a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated
“a nudist colony”
“an artists' colony”
a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
Synonyms
(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
Synonyms for COLONY
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
6
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
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Definition
a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
Length
6 letters
Starts With
C
Ends With
Y
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Letters
C, O, L, O, N, Y
Use Case
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★☆COLONY has a Scrabble score of 11. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆COLONY is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★★☆COLONY can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 6-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆COLONY contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
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Unique Letters
5
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
Y
Letter Pattern
ABCBDE
CV Pattern
CVCVCC
Vowel Share
33%
Consonant Share
67%
Bigrams
CO, OL, LO, ON, NY
Trigrams
COL, OLO, LON, ONY
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