ostensibility
Ostensibility can refer to The quality of being professed, supposed rather than demonstrably true or real.
Length
13
Scrabble
18
WWF
20
Starts
OS
Ends
ITY
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “OSTENSIBILITY” Mean?
ostensibility has 1 documented sense across noun.
Noun
1 senseThe quality of being professed, supposed rather than demonstrably true or real.
“They reveal the ostensibility of this systematic order, or point out that it is in fact only temporary and exists on the basis of a more fundamental instability.”
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
13
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
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Definition
The quality of being professed, supposed rather than demonstrably true or real.
Length
13 letters
Starts With
O
Ends With
Y
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Letters
O, S, T, E, N, S, I, B, I, L, I, T, Y
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★★OSTENSIBILITY has a Scrabble score of 18. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆OSTENSIBILITY is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆OSTENSIBILITY can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 13-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆OSTENSIBILITY contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
9
Repeated Letters
4
Highest Value Letter
Y
Letter Pattern
ABCDEBFGFHFCI
CV Pattern
VCCVCCVCVCVCC
Vowel Share
38%
Consonant Share
62%
Bigrams
OS, ST, TE, EN, NS, SI, IB, BI, IL, LI, IT, TY
Trigrams
OST, STE, TEN, ENS, NSI, SIB, IBI, BIL, ILI, LIT, ITY
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