licence
Licence can refer to excessive freedom; lack of due restraint, freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech), or a legal document giving official permission to do something. As a verb, licence can mean to authorize officially.
Length
7
Scrabble
11
WWF
15
Starts
LI
Ends
NCE
Difficulty
Medium
Dictionary
What Does “LICENCE” Mean?
/ˈlaɪsəns/
licence has 4 documented senses across noun, verb.
Noun
3 sensesexcessive freedom; lack of due restraint
“{'source': 'Will Durant', 'text': 'when liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near'}”
“{'source': 'Edmund Burke', 'text': 'the intolerable license with which the newspapers break … the rules of decorum'}”
Synonyms
freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
Synonyms
Verb
1 senseScrabble Score
11
Letters
7
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
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Definition
excessive freedom; lack of due restraint
Length
7 letters
Starts With
L
Ends With
E
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Letters
L, I, C, E, N, C, E
Use Case
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★☆LICENCE has a Scrabble score of 11. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆LICENCE is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆LICENCE can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 7-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆LICENCE 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
C
Letter Pattern
ABCDECD
CV Pattern
CVCVCCV
Vowel Share
43%
Consonant Share
57%
Bigrams
LI, IC, CE, EN, NC, CE
Trigrams
LIC, ICE, CEN, ENC, NCE
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