forbearance
Forbearance can refer to good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence or a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting.
Length
11
Scrabble
18
WWF
21
Starts
FO
Ends
NCE
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “FORBEARANCE” Mean?
/fɔɹˈbeɹən(t)s/
forbearance has 2 documented senses across noun.
Noun
2 sensesgood-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Synonyms
a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting
“his forbearance to reply was alarming”
Synonyms for FORBEARANCE
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
11
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
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Definition
good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Length
11 letters
Starts With
F
Ends With
E
Vowels
5
Consonants
6
Letters
F, O, R, B, E, A, R, A, N, C, E
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★★FORBEARANCE has a Scrabble score of 18. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆FORBEARANCE is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆FORBEARANCE can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 11-letter structure.
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★★★☆☆FORBEARANCE contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
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Unique Letters
8
Repeated Letters
3
Highest Value Letter
F
Letter Pattern
ABCDEFCFGHE
CV Pattern
CVCCVVCVCCV
Vowel Share
45%
Consonant Share
55%
Bigrams
FO, OR, RB, BE, EA, AR, RA, AN, NC, CE
Trigrams
FOR, ORB, RBE, BEA, EAR, ARA, RAN, ANC, NCE
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