withered
Withered is also used as adjective, with meanings including lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
Length
8
Scrabble
15
WWF
14
Starts
WI
Ends
RED
Difficulty
Hard
Dictionary
What Does “WITHERED” Mean?
/ˈwɪðɚd/
withered has 2 documented senses across adjective.
Adjective
2 senseslean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
“the old woman's shriveled skin”
“he looked shriveled and ill”
“a shrunken old man”
“{'source': 'W.F.Starkie', 'text': 'a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws'}”
(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
“dried-up grass”
“the desert was edged with sere vegetation”
“shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings”
“withered vines”
Synonyms
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
8
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
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Definition
lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
Length
8 letters
Starts With
W
Ends With
D
Vowels
3
Consonants
5
Letters
W, I, T, H, E, R, E, D
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★★★WITHERED has a Scrabble score of 15. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆WITHERED is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★☆☆WITHERED can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 8-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆WITHERED 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
1
Highest Value Letter
W
Letter Pattern
ABCDEFEG
CV Pattern
CVCCVCVC
Vowel Share
38%
Consonant Share
62%
Bigrams
WI, IT, TH, HE, ER, RE, ED
Trigrams
WIT, ITH, THE, HER, ERE, RED
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