wound
Wound can refer to an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin), a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride), or the act of inflicting a wound. As a verb, wound can mean to cause injuries or bodily harm to or hurt the feelings of.
Length
5
Scrabble
9
WWF
11
Starts
WO
Ends
UND
Difficulty
Medium
Dictionary
What Does “WOUND” Mean?
/wuːnd/
wound has 7 documented senses across adjective, noun, verb.
Adjective
1 senseput in a coil
Noun
4 sensesan injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
Synonyms
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
Synonyms
a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)
“he feared that mentioning it might reopen the wound”
“deep in her breast lives the silent wound”
“{'source': 'Robert Frost', 'text': 'The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound — that he will never get over it'}”
the act of inflicting a wound
Synonyms
Verb
2 sensesScrabble Score
9
Letters
5
Vowels
2
Consonants
3
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Definition
put in a coil
Length
5 letters
Starts With
W
Ends With
D
Vowels
2
Consonants
3
Letters
W, O, U, N, D
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
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Scrabble Strategy
★★★☆☆WOUND has a Scrabble score of 9. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★★★☆WOUND 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
★★★★☆WOUND can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 5-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★★☆WOUND uses unique letters, giving more flexibility when checking possible anagrams and word game combinations.
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Unique Letters
5
Repeated Letters
0
Highest Value Letter
W
Letter Pattern
ABCDE
CV Pattern
CVVCC
Vowel Share
40%
Consonant Share
60%
Bigrams
WO, OU, UN, ND
Trigrams
WOU, OUN, UND
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