preventive
Preventive can refer to remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease, an agent or device intended to prevent conception, or any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome. Preventive is also used as adjective, with meanings including preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease.
Length
10
Scrabble
18
WWF
22
Starts
PR
Ends
IVE
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “PREVENTIVE” Mean?
/pɹɪˈvɛntɪv/
preventive has 5 documented senses across adjective, noun.
Adjective
2 sensespreventing or contributing to the prevention of disease
“preventive medicine”
“vaccines are prophylactic”
“a prophylactic drug”
Synonyms
tending to prevent or hinder
Synonyms
Noun
3 sensesremedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
“the doctor recommended several preventatives”
Synonyms
any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
an agent or device intended to prevent conception
Synonyms
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
10
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
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Definition
preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease
Length
10 letters
Starts With
P
Ends With
E
Vowels
4
Consonants
6
Letters
P, R, E, V, E, N, T, I, V, E
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★★PREVENTIVE has a Scrabble score of 18. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆PREVENTIVE is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆PREVENTIVE can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 10-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆PREVENTIVE contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
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Unique Letters
7
Repeated Letters
3
Highest Value Letter
V
Letter Pattern
ABCDCEFGDC
CV Pattern
CCVCVCCVCV
Vowel Share
40%
Consonant Share
60%
Bigrams
PR, RE, EV, VE, EN, NT, TI, IV, VE
Trigrams
PRE, REV, EVE, VEN, ENT, NTI, TIV, IVE
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