mooncake
A rich, dense Chinese pastry traditionally filled with lotus seed paste and nowadays with a variety of other fillings, usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar; early September to early October).
Length
8
Scrabble
16
WWF
19
Starts
MO
Ends
AKE
Difficulty
Hard
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What Does “MOONCAKE” Mean?
A rich, dense Chinese pastry traditionally filled with lotus seed paste and nowadays with a variety of other fillings, usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar; early September to early October).
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
8
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
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Definition
A rich, dense Chinese pastry traditionally filled with lotus seed paste and nowadays with a variety of other fillings, usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar; early September to early October).
Length
8 letters
Starts With
M
Ends With
E
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
Letters
M, O, O, N, C, A, K, E
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★★MOONCAKE has a Scrabble score of 16. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆MOONCAKE is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆MOONCAKE can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 8-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆MOONCAKE 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
1
Highest Value Letter
K
Letter Pattern
ABBCDEFG
CV Pattern
CVVCCVCV
Vowel Share
50%
Consonant Share
50%
Bigrams
MO, OO, ON, NC, CA, AK, KE
Trigrams
MOO, OON, ONC, NCA, CAK, AKE
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