delicates
Garments or cloth items that are delicate and need gentle handling when being laundered, especially underwear or lingerie
Length
9
Scrabble
12
WWF
14
Starts
DE
Ends
TES
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “DELICATES” Mean?
Garments or cloth items that are delicate and need gentle handling when being laundered, especially underwear or lingerie
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
9
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
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Definition
Garments or cloth items that are delicate and need gentle handling when being laundered, especially underwear or lingerie
Length
9 letters
Starts With
D
Ends With
S
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Letters
D, E, L, I, C, A, T, E, S
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
★★★★☆DELICATES has a Scrabble score of 12. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆DELICATES is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆DELICATES can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 9-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆DELICATES contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
8
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
C
Letter Pattern
ABCDEFGBH
CV Pattern
CVCVCVCVC
Vowel Share
44%
Consonant Share
56%
Bigrams
DE, EL, LI, IC, CA, AT, TE, ES
Trigrams
DEL, ELI, LIC, ICA, CAT, ATE, TES
Crossword Intelligence
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