Genuses
7 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Plural of genus: general kinds or categories of something, or biological classifications ranking above species and below family.
“The zoologist argued that the two animals belonged to different genuses based on skeletal structure.”
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Contains two E's and ends in -USES, a vowel-heavy word useful when testing E positions in a Wordle puzzle
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High vowel count with modest tile values, a handy play for offloading surplus vowels from a crowded rack
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