melancholy
Melancholy can refer to a feeling of thoughtful sadness, a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed, or a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy. Melancholy is also used as adjective, with meanings including characterized by or causing or expressing sadness.
Length
10
Scrabble
20
WWF
23
Starts
ME
Ends
OLY
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “MELANCHOLY” Mean?
/ˈmelənkəli/
melancholy has 5 documented senses across adjective, noun.
Adjective
2 sensescharacterized by or causing or expressing sadness
“growing more melancholy every hour”
“her melancholic smile”
“we acquainted him with the melancholy truth”
Synonyms
Noun
3 sensesa feeling of thoughtful sadness
a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
Synonyms for MELANCHOLY
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
10
Vowels
3
Consonants
7
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Definition
characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
Length
10 letters
Starts With
M
Ends With
Y
Vowels
3
Consonants
7
Letters
M, E, L, A, N, C, H, O, L, Y
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
Letter Breakdown
Word Facts
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Word Strategy
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★★MELANCHOLY has a Scrabble score of 20. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆MELANCHOLY is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆MELANCHOLY can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 10-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆MELANCHOLY contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
9
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
H
Letter Pattern
ABCDEFGHCI
CV Pattern
CVCVCCCVCC
Vowel Share
30%
Consonant Share
70%
Bigrams
ME, EL, LA, AN, NC, CH, HO, OL, LY
Trigrams
MEL, ELA, LAN, ANC, NCH, CHO, HOL, OLY
Crossword Intelligence
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