population
Population can refer to the people who inhabit a territory or state, a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area, or the act of populating (causing to live in a place).
Length
10
Scrabble
14
WWF
19
Starts
PO
Ends
ION
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “POPULATION” Mean?
/ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən/
population has 5 documented senses across noun.
Noun
5 sensesthe people who inhabit a territory or state
“the population seemed to be well fed and clothed”
a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
“they hired hunters to keep down the deer population”
(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
“it is an estimate of the mean of the population”
Synonyms
the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.)
“people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade”
“the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing”
the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
“he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals”
Synonyms for POPULATION
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
10
Vowels
5
Consonants
5
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Definition
the people who inhabit a territory or state
Length
10 letters
Starts With
P
Ends With
N
Vowels
5
Consonants
5
Letters
P, O, P, U, L, A, T, I, O, N
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★★POPULATION has a Scrabble score of 14. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆POPULATION is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆POPULATION can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 10-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆POPULATION contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
8
Repeated Letters
2
Highest Value Letter
P
Letter Pattern
ABACDEFGBH
CV Pattern
CVCVCVCVVC
Vowel Share
50%
Consonant Share
50%
Bigrams
PO, OP, PU, UL, LA, AT, TI, IO, ON
Trigrams
POP, OPU, PUL, ULA, LAT, ATI, TIO, ION
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