mercenary
Mercenary can refer to a person hired to fight for another country than their own. Mercenary is also used as adjective, with meanings including serving for wages in a foreign army.
Length
9
Scrabble
16
WWF
18
Starts
ME
Ends
ARY
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “MERCENARY” Mean?
/ˈmɜː.sə.nə.ɹi/
mercenary has 4 documented senses across adjective, noun.
Adjective
3 sensesmarked by materialism
Synonyms
profit oriented
“a commercial book”
“{'source': 'John Buchan', 'text': 'preached a mercantile and militant patriotism'}”
“a mercenary enterprise”
“a moneymaking business”
Synonyms
Noun
1 sensea person hired to fight for another country than their own
Synonyms for MERCENARY
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
9
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
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Definition
marked by materialism
Length
9 letters
Starts With
M
Ends With
Y
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Letters
M, E, R, C, E, N, A, R, Y
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
Letter Breakdown
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★★MERCENARY has a Scrabble score of 16. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆MERCENARY is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆MERCENARY can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 9-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆MERCENARY contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
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Unique Letters
7
Repeated Letters
2
Highest Value Letter
Y
Letter Pattern
ABCDBEFCG
CV Pattern
CVCCVCVCC
Vowel Share
33%
Consonant Share
67%
Bigrams
ME, ER, RC, CE, EN, NA, AR, RY
Trigrams
MER, ERC, RCE, CEN, ENA, NAR, ARY
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