octopus
Octopus can refer to tentacles of octopus prepared as food or bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles.
Length
7
Scrabble
11
WWF
14
Starts
OC
Ends
PUS
Difficulty
Medium
Dictionary
What Does “OCTOPUS” Mean?
/ˈɒkt.ə.pʊs/
octopus has 2 documented senses across noun.
Noun
2 sensestentacles of octopus prepared as food
bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
Synonyms
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
7
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
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Definition
tentacles of octopus prepared as food
Length
7 letters
Starts With
O
Ends With
S
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Letters
O, C, T, O, P, U, S
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★☆OCTOPUS has a Scrabble score of 11. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆OCTOPUS is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆OCTOPUS can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 7-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆OCTOPUS contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
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Unique Letters
6
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
C
Letter Pattern
ABCADEF
CV Pattern
VCCVCVC
Vowel Share
43%
Consonant Share
57%
Bigrams
OC, CT, TO, OP, PU, US
Trigrams
OCT, CTO, TOP, OPU, PUS
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