pestilent
Pestilent is also used as adjective, with meanings including likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease.
Length
9
Scrabble
11
WWF
14
Starts
PE
Ends
ENT
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “PESTILENT” Mean?
/ˈpɛstələnt/
pestilent has 2 documented senses across adjective.
Adjective
2 sensesexceedingly harmful
Synonyms
likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
“{'source': 'Jonathan Swift', 'text': 'a pestilential malignancy in the air'}”
“plaguey fevers”
Synonyms
Synonyms for PESTILENT
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
9
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Word Intelligence
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Definition
exceedingly harmful
Length
9 letters
Starts With
P
Ends With
T
Vowels
3
Consonants
6
Letters
P, E, S, T, I, L, E, N, T
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
Letter Breakdown
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Word Strategy
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★☆PESTILENT has a Scrabble score of 11. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆PESTILENT is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆PESTILENT can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 9-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆PESTILENT 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
2
Highest Value Letter
P
Letter Pattern
ABCDEFBGD
CV Pattern
CVCCVCVCC
Vowel Share
33%
Consonant Share
67%
Bigrams
PE, ES, ST, TI, IL, LE, EN, NT
Trigrams
PES, EST, STI, TIL, ILE, LEN, ENT
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