Three of its five letters are vowels.
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Wordle Answer Feb 10 #236
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It's a noun — a thing, not an action or a describing word.
No letter repeats, and the pattern is uncommon in casual speech.
It begins with P.
It ends with E.
A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something, such as a DVD player, a video game or a computer.
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PAUSE
noun
/pɔːz/
A button whose functions are pausing and resuming something, such as a DVD player, a video game or a computer.
Difficulty 2.7/10
PAUSE has no repeats, so once a few letters land, several similar five-letter neighbors can still look equally plausible. The familiar -SE ending keeps everyday lookalikes alive.
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Wordle DNA
Vocabulary3.5
Letter rarity2.2
Duplicates1.0
Ambiguity8.0
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The main pressure is ambiguity (8/10).
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PAUSE has no repeats, so once a few letters land, several similar five-letter neighbors can still look equally plausible. The familiar -SE ending keeps everyday lookalikes alive.
Letters. No repeated letters. 3 vowels (A, U, E).
Pattern. CVVCV. Starts with P, ends with E.
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