highlight
Highlight can refer to the most interesting or memorable part or an area of lightness in a picture. As a verb, highlight can mean to move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent or apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent.
Length
9
Scrabble
20
WWF
20
Starts
HI
Ends
GHT
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “HIGHLIGHT” Mean?
/ˈhaɪ.ˌlaɪt/
highlight has 4 documented senses across noun, verb.
Noun
2 sensesthe most interesting or memorable part
“the highlight of the tour was our visit to the Vatican”
an area of lightness in a picture
Synonyms
Verb
2 sensesmove into the foreground to make more visible or prominent
“The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics”
Synonyms
apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent
“highlight the area above your eyebrows”
Synonyms for HIGHLIGHT
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
9
Vowels
2
Consonants
7
Word Intelligence
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Definition
the most interesting or memorable part
Length
9 letters
Starts With
H
Ends With
T
Vowels
2
Consonants
7
Letters
H, I, G, H, L, I, G, H, T
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
Letter Breakdown
Word Facts
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Word Strategy
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★★HIGHLIGHT has a Scrabble score of 20. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆HIGHLIGHT is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆HIGHLIGHT can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 9-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆HIGHLIGHT contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
5
Repeated Letters
4
Highest Value Letter
H
Letter Pattern
ABCADBCAE
CV Pattern
CVCCCVCCC
Vowel Share
22%
Consonant Share
78%
Bigrams
HI, IG, GH, HL, LI, IG, GH, HT
Trigrams
HIG, IGH, GHL, HLI, LIG, IGH, GHT
Crossword Intelligence
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