exigency
Exigency can refer to a pressing or urgent situation, a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action, or that which is required in a particular situation — usually used in plural.
Length
8
Scrabble
21
WWF
23
Starts
EX
Ends
NCY
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “EXIGENCY” Mean?
exigency has 3 documented senses across noun.
Noun
3 sensesa pressing or urgent situation
“the health-care exigency”
that which is required in a particular situation — usually used in plural.
“The trench maps used in the Great War resulted from the exigencies of war.”
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
8
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
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Definition
a pressing or urgent situation
Length
8 letters
Starts With
E
Ends With
Y
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Letters
E, X, I, G, E, N, C, Y
Use Case
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★★EXIGENCY can be valuable in Scrabble because it includes a high-impact letter. Look for premium squares and parallel plays.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆EXIGENCY is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆EXIGENCY can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 8-letter structure.
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★★★☆☆EXIGENCY 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
X
Letter Pattern
ABCDAEFG
CV Pattern
VCVCVCCC
Vowel Share
38%
Consonant Share
62%
Bigrams
EX, XI, IG, GE, EN, NC, CY
Trigrams
EXI, XIG, IGE, GEN, ENC, NCY
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