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Puzzle #1557 · 2025-09-23
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Hint 1 – structure
Hint 2 – letters
Hint 3 – extra detail
Reveal answer
Puzzle #1557 · 2025-09-23
Today's answer is a slightly less common or more specialised English word. It contains 2 vowels and 3 consonants, and it uses five different letters. Its Scrabble score is 10.
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.
Structurally this is a normal‑difficulty answer with no special traps or double letters. Careful play and solid starters should keep most streaks safe.
Starter words that lined up well today
Strong opening words for this puzzle included AUDIO (covers the letters u, o). If you opened with one of these, you were already probing several of the key letters in the answer.