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Archery

7 lettersnounmoderate

Updated June 2026

Definition

The sport or skill of shooting arrows at a target using a bow.

She took up archery at school and went on to represent her county at national level.

Pronunciation

IPA

/ɑrtʃəriː/

Syllables

ar·cher·y

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Synonyms

bowmanshiptoxophily

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Wordle

Starts ARC and ends -ERY with vowels A and E, the Y ending can catch you out in a Wordle puzzle

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The Y and H together provide good combined tile value, and -ERY is an uncommon but valid Scrabble suffix

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