maim
Maim commonly means to injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation.
Length
4
Scrabble
8
WWF
10
Starts
MA
Ends
AIM
Difficulty
Easy
Dictionary
What Does “MAIM” Mean?
/meɪm/
maim has 1 documented sense across verb.
Verb
1 senseinjure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation
“people were maimed by the explosion”
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Vowels
2
Consonants
2
Word Intelligence
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Definition
injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation
Length
4 letters
Starts With
M
Ends With
M
Vowels
2
Consonants
2
Letters
M, A, I, M
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
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Word Strategy
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★☆☆MAIM has a Scrabble score of 8. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆MAIM is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★★☆MAIM can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 4-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆MAIM contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
3
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
M
Letter Pattern
ABCA
CV Pattern
CVVC
Vowel Share
50%
Consonant Share
50%
Bigrams
MA, AI, IM
Trigrams
MAI, AIM
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