fontange
A headdress popular among aristocrats in Europe in the late 17th century and early 18th century, made with pleated layers of starched lace and ribbon.
Length
8
Scrabble
12
WWF
15
Starts
FO
Ends
NGE
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “FONTANGE” Mean?
A headdress popular among aristocrats in Europe in the late 17th century and early 18th century, made with pleated layers of starched lace and ribbon.
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
8
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
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Definition
A headdress popular among aristocrats in Europe in the late 17th century and early 18th century, made with pleated layers of starched lace and ribbon.
Length
8 letters
Starts With
F
Ends With
E
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Letters
F, O, N, T, A, N, G, E
Use Case
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Word Strategy
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★☆FONTANGE has a Scrabble score of 12. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆FONTANGE is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆FONTANGE can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 8-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆FONTANGE contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
7
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
F
Letter Pattern
ABCDECFG
CV Pattern
CVCCVCCV
Vowel Share
38%
Consonant Share
62%
Bigrams
FO, ON, NT, TA, AN, NG, GE
Trigrams
FON, ONT, NTA, TAN, ANG, NGE
Crossword Intelligence
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