dead
Dead can refer to people who are no longer living or a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense. Dead is also used as adjective or adverb, with meanings including no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life or quickly and without warning.
Length
4
Scrabble
6
WWF
6
Starts
DE
Ends
EAD
Difficulty
Easy
Dictionary
What Does “DEAD” Mean?
/dɛd/
dead has 21 documented senses across adjective, noun, adverb.
Adjective
17 sensesno longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
“the nerve is dead”
“a dead pallor”
“he was marked as a dead man by the assassin”
not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
“Mars is a dead planet”
“dead soil”
“dead coals”
“the fire is dead”
unerringly accurate
“a dead shot”
“took dead aim”
physically inactive
“Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range”
(followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
“passersby were dead to our plea for help”
“numb to the cries for mercy”
Synonyms
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devoid of physical sensation; numb
“his gums were dead from the novocain”
“she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth”
“a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities”
Synonyms
lacking acoustic resonance
“dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs”
“the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio”
not surviving in active use
“Latin is a dead language”
lacking resilience or bounce
“a dead tennis ball”
out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
“a dead telephone line”
“the motor is dead”
no longer having force or relevance
“a dead issue”
the complete stoppage of an action
“came to a dead stop”
drained of electric charge; discharged
“a dead battery”
“left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained”
Synonyms
devoid of activity
“this is a dead town: nothing ever happens here”
Noun
2 sensespeople who are no longer living
“they buried the dead”
a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
“the dead of winter”
Adverb
2 sensescompletely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
“an absolutely magnificent painting”
“a perfectly idiotic idea”
“you're perfectly right”
“utterly miserable”
Synonyms
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
4
Vowels
2
Consonants
2
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Definition
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
Length
4 letters
Starts With
D
Ends With
D
Vowels
2
Consonants
2
Letters
D, E, A, D
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
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Word Strategy
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Scrabble Strategy
★★☆☆☆DEAD has a Scrabble score of 6. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆DEAD is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★★☆DEAD can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 4-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆DEAD contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
3
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
D
Letter Pattern
ABCA
CV Pattern
CVVC
Vowel Share
50%
Consonant Share
50%
Bigrams
DE, EA, AD
Trigrams
DEA, EAD
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