cursory
Cursory is also used as adjective, with meanings including hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough.
Length
7
Scrabble
12
WWF
13
Starts
CU
Ends
ORY
Difficulty
Medium
Dictionary
What Does “CURSORY” Mean?
/ˈkɜː.sə.ɹi/
cursory has 1 documented sense across adjective.
Adjective
1 sensehasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
“a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws”
“a passing glance”
“perfunctory courtesy”
“In his paper, he showed a very superficial understanding of psychoanalytic theory”
Synonyms for CURSORY
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
7
Vowels
2
Consonants
5
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Definition
hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
Length
7 letters
Starts With
C
Ends With
Y
Vowels
2
Consonants
5
Letters
C, U, R, S, O, R, Y
Use Case
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Word Strategy
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★☆CURSORY has a Scrabble score of 12. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆CURSORY is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆CURSORY can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 7-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆CURSORY contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
6
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
Y
Letter Pattern
ABCDECF
CV Pattern
CVCCVCC
Vowel Share
29%
Consonant Share
71%
Bigrams
CU, UR, RS, SO, OR, RY
Trigrams
CUR, URS, RSO, SOR, ORY
Crossword Intelligence
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