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gloomy

/ˈɡluːmi/•adjective

Gloomy is also used as adjective, with meanings including filled with melancholy and despondency.

3 meanings6 lettersScrabble 12

Length

Scrabble

WWF

Starts

Ends

OMY

Difficulty

Medium

Dictionary

What Does “GLOOMY” Mean?

/ˈɡluːmi/

gloomy has 3 documented senses across adjective.

Adjective

3 senses

depressingly dark

“the gloomy forest”

“the glooming interior of an old inn”

“‘gloomful’ is archaic”

Synonyms

glooming gloomful sulky

filled with melancholy and despondency

“gloomy at the thought of what he had to face”

“gloomy predictions”

“a gloomy silence”

“took a grim view of the economy”

Synonyms

grim blue depressed dispirited down downcast downhearted low

causing dejection

“a blue day”

“the dark days of the war”

“a week of rainy depressing weather”

“a disconsolate winter landscape”

Synonyms

blue dark dingy disconsolate dismal grim sorry drab drear dreary

Word Forms

gloomier gloomiest

Synonyms for GLOOMY

glooming gloomful sulky grim blue depressed dispirited down downcast downhearted low dark

Scrabble Score

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Consonants

Word Intelligence

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

Definition

depressingly dark

Length

6 letters

Starts With

Ends With

Vowels

Consonants

Letters

G, L, O, O, M, Y

Use Case

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

Letter Breakdown

Word Facts

Key letter, score, and pattern facts for gloomy.

GLOOMY is a 6-letter word.

It has a Scrabble score of 12.

It starts with G and ends with Y.

It contains 2 vowels and 4 consonants.

Its vowel share is about 33%.

It has 1 repeated letter.

It is not a palindrome.

Letter pattern: ABCCDE.

Vowel/consonant pattern: CCVVCC.

Word Strategy

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

Scrabble Strategy

★★★★☆

GLOOMY has a Scrabble score of 12. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.

Wordle Strategy

★★☆☆☆

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

Crossword Strategy

★★★★☆

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

Anagram Strategy

★★★☆☆

GLOOMY 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 gloomy.

Unique Letters

Repeated Letters

Highest Value Letter

Letter Pattern

ABCCDE

CV Pattern

CCVVCC

Vowel Share

33%

Consonant Share

67%

Bigrams

GL, LO, OO, OM, MY

Trigrams

GLO, LOO, OOM, OMY

Crossword Intelligence

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

GLOOMY is a 6-letter standard crossword entry.

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

It contains 2 vowels and 4 consonants.

Its vowel/consonant pattern is CCVVCC.

Crossword difficulty estimate: Medium.