persistent
Persistent is also used as adjective, with meanings including continually recurring to the mind.
Length
10
Scrabble
12
WWF
14
Starts
PE
Ends
ENT
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “PERSISTENT” Mean?
/pɚˈsɪstənt/
persistent has 4 documented senses across adjective.
Adjective
4 sensescontinually recurring to the mind
“haunting memories”
“{'source': 'Claudia Cassidy', 'text': 'the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty'}”
Synonyms
retained; not shed
“persistent leaves remain attached past maturity”
“the persistent gills of fishes”
Synonyms
stubbornly unyielding
“dogged persistence”
“dour determination”
“the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics”
“{'source': 'T.S.Eliot', 'text': 'a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it'}”
Synonyms for PERSISTENT
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
10
Vowels
3
Consonants
7
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Definition
never-ceasing
Length
10 letters
Starts With
P
Ends With
T
Vowels
3
Consonants
7
Letters
P, E, R, S, I, S, T, E, N, T
Use Case
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Letter Breakdown
Word Facts
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Word Strategy
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★☆PERSISTENT has a Scrabble score of 12. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆PERSISTENT is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆PERSISTENT can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 10-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆PERSISTENT contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
7
Repeated Letters
3
Highest Value Letter
P
Letter Pattern
ABCDEDFBGF
CV Pattern
CVCCVCCVCC
Vowel Share
30%
Consonant Share
70%
Bigrams
PE, ER, RS, SI, IS, ST, TE, EN, NT
Trigrams
PER, ERS, RSI, SIS, IST, STE, TEN, ENT
Crossword Intelligence
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