shark
Shark can refer to a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest, a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways, or any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales. As a verb, shark can mean to play the shark; act with trickery or hunt shark.
Length
5
Scrabble
12
WWF
11
Starts
SH
Ends
ARK
Difficulty
Medium
Dictionary
What Does “SHARK” Mean?
shark has 5 documented senses across noun, verb.
Noun
3 sensesany of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways
“a card shark”
Verb
2 sensesplay the shark; act with trickery
hunt shark
“In the summer they like to go out and shark”
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Vowels
1
Consonants
4
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Definition
any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
Length
5 letters
Starts With
S
Ends With
K
Vowels
1
Consonants
4
Letters
S, H, A, R, K
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
★★★★☆SHARK has a Scrabble score of 12. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★★★☆SHARK is a five-letter word, so it can be considered in Wordle-style solving. It includes common vowel information that can help narrow guesses.
Crossword Strategy
★★★★☆SHARK can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 5-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★★☆SHARK uses unique letters, giving more flexibility when checking possible anagrams and word game combinations.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
5
Repeated Letters
0
Highest Value Letter
K
Letter Pattern
ABCDE
CV Pattern
CCVCC
Vowel Share
20%
Consonant Share
80%
Bigrams
SH, HA, AR, RK
Trigrams
SHA, HAR, ARK
Crossword Intelligence
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