volunteer
Volunteer can refer to a person who performs voluntary work or (military) a person who freely enlists for service. As a verb, volunteer can mean to tell voluntarily, do volunteer work, or agree freely.
Length
9
Scrabble
12
WWF
16
Starts
VO
Ends
EER
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “VOLUNTEER” Mean?
/vɑl.ənˈtɪɹ/
volunteer has 6 documented senses across adjective, noun, verb.
Adjective
1 sensewithout payment
“the soup kitchen was run primarily by unpaid helpers”
“a volunteer fire department”
Synonyms
Noun
2 senses(military) a person who freely enlists for service
Synonyms
a person who performs voluntary work
Verb
3 sensestell voluntarily
“He volunteered the information”
agree freely
“She volunteered to drive the old lady home”
“I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it”
“They volunteer to move”
Synonyms
do volunteer work
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
9
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
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Definition
without payment
Length
9 letters
Starts With
V
Ends With
R
Vowels
4
Consonants
5
Letters
V, O, L, U, N, T, E, E, R
Use Case
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★☆VOLUNTEER has a Scrabble score of 12. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆VOLUNTEER is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆VOLUNTEER can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 9-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆VOLUNTEER contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
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Unique Letters
8
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
V
Letter Pattern
ABCDEFGGH
CV Pattern
CVCVCCVVC
Vowel Share
44%
Consonant Share
56%
Bigrams
VO, OL, LU, UN, NT, TE, EE, ER
Trigrams
VOL, OLU, LUN, UNT, NTE, TEE, EER
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