tangerine
Tangerine can refer to a variety of mandarin orange, known in Telugu and Portugal as kamala kaya and in Australia as a mandarin, a reddish to vivid orange color, or any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa. Tangerine is also used as adjective, with meanings including of a strong reddish orange color.
Length
9
Scrabble
10
WWF
13
Starts
TA
Ends
INE
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “TANGERINE” Mean?
/ˈtæn.dʒəˌɹin/
tangerine has 4 documented senses across adjective, noun.
Adjective
1 senseof a strong reddish orange color
Noun
3 sensesa variety of mandarin orange, known in Telugu and Portugal as kamala kaya and in Australia as a mandarin
any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa
a reddish to vivid orange color
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
9
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
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Definition
of a strong reddish orange color
Length
9 letters
Starts With
T
Ends With
E
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Letters
T, A, N, G, E, R, I, N, E
Use Case
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★☆TANGERINE has a Scrabble score of 10. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆TANGERINE is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆TANGERINE can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 9-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆TANGERINE 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
2
Highest Value Letter
G
Letter Pattern
ABCDEFGCE
CV Pattern
CVCCVCVCV
Vowel Share
44%
Consonant Share
56%
Bigrams
TA, AN, NG, GE, ER, RI, IN, NE
Trigrams
TAN, ANG, NGE, GER, ERI, RIN, INE
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