lentil
Lentil can refer to the fruit or seed of a lentil plant, round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food, or widely cultivated Eurasian annual herb grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas and also ground into meal and for its leafy stalks that are used as fodder.
Length
6
Scrabble
6
WWF
9
Starts
LE
Ends
TIL
Difficulty
Medium
Dictionary
What Does “LENTIL” Mean?
/ˈlɛntəl/
lentil has 3 documented senses across noun.
Noun
3 sensesround flat seed of the lentil plant used for food
the fruit or seed of a lentil plant
widely cultivated Eurasian annual herb grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas and also ground into meal and for its leafy stalks that are used as fodder
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
6
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
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Definition
round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food
Length
6 letters
Starts With
L
Ends With
L
Vowels
2
Consonants
4
Letters
L, E, N, T, I, L
Use Case
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Scrabble Strategy
★★☆☆☆LENTIL has a Scrabble score of 6. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆LENTIL is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★★☆LENTIL can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 6-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆LENTIL 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
L
Letter Pattern
ABCDEA
CV Pattern
CVCCVC
Vowel Share
33%
Consonant Share
67%
Bigrams
LE, EN, NT, TI, IL
Trigrams
LEN, ENT, NTI, TIL
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