Cocoon
6 lettersnouncommonUpdated June 2026
Definition
The protective silky casing spun by an insect larva around itself during the pupal stage, or by a spider around its eggs.
“The caterpillar had wrapped itself in a cocoon and would emerge as a butterfly weeks later.”
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co·coon
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Contains double O twice in a row, four vowels total making it an excellent early Wordle guess
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Scrabble
Worth 10 points, hooks to COCOONED and COCOONING, the paired double-O structure helps vowel management
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