nonpareil
Nonpareil can refer to a flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar, colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies, or model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal. Nonpareil is also used as adjective, with meanings including eminent beyond or above comparison.
Length
9
Scrabble
11
WWF
15
Starts
NO
Ends
EIL
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “NONPAREIL” Mean?
/nɒnpəˈɹeɪ(l)/
nonpareil has 4 documented senses across adjective, noun.
Adjective
1 senseeminent beyond or above comparison
“matchless beauty”
“the team's nonpareil center fielder”
“she's one girl in a million”
“the one and only Muhammad Ali”
Noun
3 sensesScrabble Score
11
Letters
9
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
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Definition
eminent beyond or above comparison
Length
9 letters
Starts With
N
Ends With
L
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Letters
N, O, N, P, A, R, E, I, L
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
★★★★☆NONPAREIL has a Scrabble score of 11. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆NONPAREIL is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆NONPAREIL can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 9-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆NONPAREIL contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
8
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
P
Letter Pattern
ABACDEFGH
CV Pattern
CVCCVCVVC
Vowel Share
44%
Consonant Share
56%
Bigrams
NO, ON, NP, PA, AR, RE, EI, IL
Trigrams
NON, ONP, NPA, PAR, ARE, REI, EIL
Crossword Intelligence
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