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drippy

adjective

Drippy is also used as adjective, with meanings including effusively or insincerely emotional.

3 meanings6 lettersScrabble 14

Length

Scrabble

WWF

Starts

Ends

PPY

Difficulty

Medium

Dictionary

What Does “DRIPPY” Mean?

drippy has 3 documented senses across adjective.

Adjective

3 senses

wet with light rain

“a sad drizzly day”

“a wet drippy day”

Synonyms

drizzly

leaking in drops

“a drippy faucet”

effusively or insincerely emotional

“a bathetic novel”

“maudlin expressions of sympathy”

“mushy effusiveness”

“a schmaltzy song”

Synonyms

bathetic hokey maudlin mawkish kitschy mushy schmaltzy schmalzy sentimental sappy soppy soupy

Word Forms

drippier drippiest

Synonyms for DRIPPY

drizzly bathetic hokey maudlin mawkish kitschy mushy schmaltzy schmalzy sentimental sappy soppy

Scrabble Score

Letters

Vowels

Consonants

Word Intelligence

Explore the word drippy with its definition, score, letter pattern, and useful word game details.

Definition

wet with light rain

Length

6 letters

Starts With

Ends With

Vowels

Consonants

Letters

D, R, I, P, P, Y

Use Case

Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.

Letter Breakdown

Word Facts

Key letter, score, and pattern facts for drippy.

DRIPPY is a 6-letter word.

It has a Scrabble score of 14.

It starts with D and ends with Y.

It contains 1 vowel and 5 consonants.

Its vowel share is about 17%.

It has 1 repeated letter.

It is not a palindrome.

Letter pattern: ABCDDE.

Vowel/consonant pattern: CCVCCC.

Word Strategy

Strategy notes for using drippy in Scrabble, Wordle-style games, crosswords, and anagram solving.

Scrabble Strategy

★★★★★

DRIPPY has a Scrabble score of 14. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.

Wordle Strategy

★★☆☆☆

DRIPPY is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.

Crossword Strategy

★★★★☆

DRIPPY can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 6-letter structure.

Anagram Strategy

★★★☆☆

DRIPPY contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.

Letter Intelligence

A deeper look at the letter structure, patterns, and useful game signals inside drippy.

Unique Letters

Repeated Letters

Highest Value Letter

Letter Pattern

ABCDDE

CV Pattern

CCVCCC

Vowel Share

17%

Consonant Share

83%

Bigrams

DR, RI, IP, PP, PY

Trigrams

DRI, RIP, IPP, PPY

Crossword Intelligence

Crossword-style clues, crossing help, and pattern notes for drippy.

DRIPPY is a 6-letter standard crossword entry.

It starts with D and ends with Y, which helps narrow crossword crossings.

It contains 1 vowel and 5 consonants.

Its vowel/consonant pattern is CCVCCC.

Crossword difficulty estimate: Hard.