official
Official can refer to a worker who holds or is invested with an office or someone who administers the rules of a game or sport. Official is also used as adjective, with meanings including having official authority or sanction.
Length
8
Scrabble
16
WWF
18
Starts
OF
Ends
IAL
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “OFFICIAL” Mean?
/əˈfɪʃəl/
official has 7 documented senses across adjective, noun.
Adjective
5 senseshaving official authority or sanction
“official permission”
“an official representative”
of or relating to an office
“official privileges”
verified officially
“the election returns are now official”
(of a church) given official status as a national or state institution
Noun
2 sensesa worker who holds or is invested with an office
Synonyms
someone who administers the rules of a game or sport
“the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling”
Synonyms for OFFICIAL
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
8
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
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Definition
having official authority or sanction
Length
8 letters
Starts With
O
Ends With
L
Vowels
4
Consonants
4
Letters
O, F, F, I, C, I, A, L
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★★OFFICIAL has a Scrabble score of 16. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆OFFICIAL is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆OFFICIAL can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 8-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆OFFICIAL 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
2
Highest Value Letter
F
Letter Pattern
ABBCDCEF
CV Pattern
VCCVCVVC
Vowel Share
50%
Consonant Share
50%
Bigrams
OF, FF, FI, IC, CI, IA, AL
Trigrams
OFF, FFI, FIC, ICI, CIA, IAL
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