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Puzzle #1319 · 2025-01-28
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Hint 1 – structure
Hint 2 – letters
Hint 3 – extra detail
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Puzzle #1319 · 2025-01-28
Today's answer is a slightly less common or more specialised English word. It contains 2 vowels and 3 consonants, and it repeats at least one letter. Its Scrabble score is 11.
Definition & origin
We don't have a full dictionary profile for this word yet, but it still plays like a normal Wordle answer in our official dictionary.
Today’s puzzle includes a double letter, which often trips players up and makes it harder to cover all possibilities in just a few guesses.
Starter words that lined up well today
Strong opening words for this puzzle included CRANE (covers the letters r, e), TRACE (covers the letters r, e) and SOARE (covers the letters r, e). If you opened with one of these, you were already probing several of the key letters in the answer.