Only one of its five letters is a vowel.
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Wordle Answer Oct 23 #491
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It's a noun — a thing, not an action or a describing word.
One letter appears 3 times, and those copies sit next to each other.
It begins with M.
It ends with Y.
An embalmed human or non-human animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial , especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and…
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MUMMY
noun
An embalmed human or non-human animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial , especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American tribes. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
Difficulty 7.9/10
MUMMY hides a doubled M, so players who avoid testing repeats often burn a guess on near-neighbors before they commit.
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7.9/10
Wordle DNA
Vocabulary3.5
Letter rarity3.8
Duplicates8.5
Ambiguity6.0
Trap risk3.0
Why?
The main pressure is duplicates (8.5/10).
Moderate challenge: consecutive repeated letter keeps a few plausible neighbors alive longer than the word's length suggests.
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MUMMY hides a doubled M, so players who avoid testing repeats often burn a guess on near-neighbors before they commit.
Letters. M appears twice in a row — the main trap. 1 vowel (U).
Pattern. CVCCC. Starts with M, ends with Y.
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