penance
Penance can refer to remorse for your past conduct, a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution, or voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing.
Length
7
Scrabble
11
WWF
15
Starts
PE
Ends
NCE
Difficulty
Medium
Dictionary
What Does “PENANCE” Mean?
/ˈpɛn.əns/
penance has 3 documented senses across noun.
Noun
3 sensesremorse for your past conduct
Synonyms
a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution
voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
Synonyms for PENANCE
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
7
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
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Definition
remorse for your past conduct
Length
7 letters
Starts With
P
Ends With
E
Vowels
3
Consonants
4
Letters
P, E, N, A, N, C, E
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★☆PENANCE has a Scrabble score of 11. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆PENANCE is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆PENANCE can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 7-letter structure.
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★★★☆☆PENANCE contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
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Unique Letters
5
Repeated Letters
2
Highest Value Letter
P
Letter Pattern
ABCDCEB
CV Pattern
CVCVCCV
Vowel Share
43%
Consonant Share
57%
Bigrams
PE, EN, NA, AN, NC, CE
Trigrams
PEN, ENA, NAN, ANC, NCE
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