Staunch

What it means

1. (verb) To stop the flow of (blood).
2. (verb) To stop, check, or deter an action. “Somebody's got to staunch those press leaks!”
3. (adjective) Loyal, trustworthy, reliable. “He's been a staunch supporter of mine through every election.”
4. (adjective) Dependable, persistent. “Without our staunch front line the enemy would have split the regiment.”

Letter analysis

• Staunch contains 7 letters: 2 vowel(s) and 5 consonant(s).
• It uses 7 unique letters.
• Estimated syllable count: 1.
• Scrabble-style letter score: 12.

Sub-words

• chants
• haunts
• snatch
• stanch
• aunts
• cants
• chant
• chats
• cunts
• haunt
• hunts
• scant
• shunt
• tunas
• acts
• ants
• anus
• aunt
• cans
• cant
• cash
• cast
• cats
• chat
• cunt
• cuts
• hats
• hunt
• huts
• nuts
• scan
• scat
• shat
• shun
• shut
• stun
• such
• tans
• than
• thus
• tuna
• tuns
• tush
• act
• ant
• ash
• can
• cat
• cut
• has
• hat
• hut
• nth
• nut
• sac
• sat
• sun
• tan
• tun

Related words

Other 7-letter words

• abalone
• abandon
• abashed
• abashes
• abasing
• abating
• abbrevs
• abdomen
• abducts
• abetted
• abetter
• abettor
• abiding
• ability
• abjured
• abjures
• abolish
• aborted

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Words starting with STA

• stab
• stabbed
• stabbing
• stabbings
• stability
• stabilization
• stabilize
• stabilized
• stabilizer
• stabilizers
• stabilizes
• stabilizing
• stable
• stabled
• stabler
• stables
• stablest
• stabling

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Words ending with NCH

• bench
• blanch
• blench
• branch
• brunch
• bullfinch
• bunch
• chaffinch
• cinch
• clench
• clinch
• conch
• crunch
• drench
• entrench
• finch
• flinch
• french

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