home
Home can refer to where you live at a particular time, the country or state or city where you live, or housing that someone is living in. As a verb, home can mean to provide with, or send to, a home or return home accurately from a long distance.
Length
4
Scrabble
9
WWF
9
Starts
HO
Ends
OME
Difficulty
Easy
Dictionary
What Does “HOME” Mean?
/(h)əʊm/
home has 17 documented senses across adjective, noun, adverb, verb.
Adjective
3 sensesused of your own ground
“a home game”
relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are
“my home town”
Noun
9 senseswhere you live at a particular time
“deliver the package to my home”
“he doesn't have a home to go to”
“your place or mine?”
Synonyms
housing that someone is living in
“he built a modest dwelling near the pond”
“they raise money to provide homes for the homeless”
Synonyms
the country or state or city where you live
“Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home”
“his home is New Jersey”
(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
“he ruled that the runner failed to touch home”
Synonyms
the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
Synonyms
place where something began and flourished
“the United States is the home of basketball”
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an environment offering affection and security
“home is where the heart is”
“he grew up in a good Christian home”
“there's no place like home”
an institution where people are cared for
“a home for the elderly”
Adverb
3 sensesat or to or in the direction of one's home or family
“He stays home on weekends”
“after the game the children brought friends home for supper”
“I'll be home tomorrow”
“came riding home in style”
on or to the point aimed at
“the arrow struck home”
to the fullest extent; to the heart
“drove the nail home”
“drove his point home”
“his comments hit home”
Verb
2 sensesprovide with, or send to, a home
return home accurately from a long distance
“homing pigeons”
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Vowels
2
Consonants
2
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Definition
used of your own ground
Length
4 letters
Starts With
H
Ends With
E
Vowels
2
Consonants
2
Letters
H, O, M, E
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
Letter Breakdown
Word Facts
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Word Strategy
Strategy notes for using home in Scrabble, Wordle-style games, crosswords, and anagram solving.
Scrabble Strategy
★★★☆☆HOME has a Scrabble score of 9. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆HOME is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★★☆HOME can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 4-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★★☆HOME uses unique letters, giving more flexibility when checking possible anagrams and word game combinations.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
4
Repeated Letters
0
Highest Value Letter
H
Letter Pattern
ABCD
CV Pattern
CVCV
Vowel Share
50%
Consonant Share
50%
Bigrams
HO, OM, ME
Trigrams
HOM, OME
Crossword Intelligence
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