poison
Poison can refer to any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism or anything that harms or destroys. As a verb, poison can mean to spoil as if by poison, kill with poison, or kill by its poison.
Length
6
Scrabble
8
WWF
10
Starts
PO
Ends
SON
Difficulty
Medium
Dictionary
What Does “POISON” Mean?
/ˈpɔɪz(ə)n/
poison has 7 documented senses across noun, verb.
Noun
2 sensesany substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism
Synonyms
anything that harms or destroys
“the poison of fascism”
Verb
5 sensesspoil as if by poison
“poison someone's mind”
“poison the atmosphere in the office”
kill with poison
“She poisoned her husband”
“They want to poison the prisoners”
kill by its poison
“this mushroom can poison”
administer poison to
“She poisoned her husband but he did not die”
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
6
Vowels
3
Consonants
3
Word Intelligence
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Definition
any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism
Length
6 letters
Starts With
P
Ends With
N
Vowels
3
Consonants
3
Letters
P, O, I, S, O, N
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
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Word Facts
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Word Strategy
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★☆☆POISON has a Scrabble score of 8. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆POISON is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★★☆POISON can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 6-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆POISON contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
5
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
P
Letter Pattern
ABCDBE
CV Pattern
CVVCVC
Vowel Share
50%
Consonant Share
50%
Bigrams
PO, OI, IS, SO, ON
Trigrams
POI, OIS, ISO, SON
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