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Puzzle #1401 · 2025-04-20
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Puzzle #1401 · 2025-04-20
Today's answer is most often used as a noun. It contains 1 vowel and 4 consonants, and it uses five different letters. Its Scrabble score is 12.
Definition & origin
PATCH — A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
This answer sits inside a classic Wordle trap pattern. Without a high‑information burner guess, it’s easy to burn several attempts on plausible alternatives.
Starter words that lined up well today
Strong opening words for this puzzle included TRACE (covers the letters t, a, c), SLATE (covers the letters a, t) and CRANE (covers the letters c, a). If you opened with one of these, you were already probing several of the key letters in the answer.