gomoku
An abstract strategy board game, played with pieces from the game go (black and white stones) on a go board with 19×19 intersections, or as a paper-and-pencil game. The winner is the first player to achieve an unbroken sequence of five of their pieces in a row, a column or a diagonal.
Length
6
Scrabble
13
WWF
16
Starts
GO
Ends
OKU
Difficulty
Medium
Dictionary
What Does “GOMOKU” Mean?
An abstract strategy board game, played with pieces from the game go (black and white stones) on a go board with 19×19 intersections, or as a paper-and-pencil game. The winner is the first player to achieve an unbroken sequence of five of their pieces in a row, a column or a diagonal.
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Vowels
3
Consonants
3
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Definition
An abstract strategy board game, played with pieces from the game go (black and white stones) on a go board with 19×19 intersections, or as a paper-and-pencil game. The winner is the first player to achieve an unbroken sequence of five of their pieces in a row, a column or a diagonal.
Length
6 letters
Starts With
G
Ends With
U
Vowels
3
Consonants
3
Letters
G, O, M, O, K, U
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
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Word Strategy
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★☆GOMOKU has a Scrabble score of 13. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆GOMOKU is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★★☆GOMOKU can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 6-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆GOMOKU contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
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Unique Letters
5
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
K
Letter Pattern
ABCBDE
CV Pattern
CVCVCV
Vowel Share
50%
Consonant Share
50%
Bigrams
GO, OM, MO, OK, KU
Trigrams
GOM, OMO, MOK, OKU
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