illegal
Illegal is also used as adjective, with meanings including prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules.
Length
7
Scrabble
8
WWF
12
Starts
IL
Ends
GAL
Difficulty
Medium
Dictionary
What Does “ILLEGAL” Mean?
/ɪˈliːɡəl/
illegal has 1 documented sense across adjective.
Adjective
1 senseprohibited by law or by official or accepted rules
“an illegal chess move”
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
7
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Word Intelligence
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Definition
prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules
Length
7 letters
Starts With
I
Ends With
L
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Letters
I, L, L, E, G, A, L
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
Letter Breakdown
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Word Strategy
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★☆☆ILLEGAL has a Scrabble score of 8. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆ILLEGAL is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆ILLEGAL can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 7-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆ILLEGAL 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
2
Highest Value Letter
G
Letter Pattern
ABBCDEB
CV Pattern
VCCVCVC
Vowel Share
43%
Consonant Share
57%
Bigrams
IL, LL, LE, EG, GA, AL
Trigrams
ILL, LLE, LEG, EGA, GAL
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