delicate
Delicate is also used as adjective, with meanings including marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique.
Length
8
Scrabble
11
WWF
13
Starts
DE
Ends
ATE
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “DELICATE” Mean?
/ˈdɛlɪkət/
delicate has 7 documented senses across adjective.
Adjective
7 sensesexquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
“a delicate violin passage”
“delicate china”
“a delicate flavor”
“the delicate wing of a butterfly”
marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique
“a surgeon's delicate touch”
developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety
“the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense”
Synonyms
Show 1 more adjective definition
of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely
“almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments”
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
8
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
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Definition
exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury
Length
8 letters
Starts With
D
Ends With
E
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
Letters
D, E, L, I, C, A, T, E
Use Case
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★☆DELICATE has a Scrabble score of 11. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆DELICATE is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆DELICATE can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 8-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆DELICATE contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
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Unique Letters
7
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
C
Letter Pattern
ABCDEFGB
CV Pattern
CVCVCVCV
Vowel Share
50%
Consonant Share
50%
Bigrams
DE, EL, LI, IC, CA, AT, TE
Trigrams
DEL, ELI, LIC, ICA, CAT, ATE
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