Only one of its five letters is a vowel.
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Wordle Answer Dec 12 #541
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It's a verb — an action or state, not a thing or describing word.
One letter appears twice, and those copies sit next to each other.
It begins with A.
It ends with Y.
To lay or place; to put (one thing to another).
Two letters remain hidden.
APY
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APPLY
verb
/əˈplaɪ/
To lay or place; to put (one thing to another)
Difficulty 4.2/10
APPLY hides a doubled P, so players who avoid testing repeats often burn a guess on near-neighbors before they commit. The familiar -LY ending keeps everyday lookalikes alive.
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4.2/10
Wordle DNA
Vocabulary3.5
Letter rarity3.0
Duplicates7.0
Ambiguity7.5
Why?
The main pressure is ambiguity (7.5/10).
Moderate challenge: consecutive repeated letter keeps a few plausible neighbors alive longer than the word's length suggests.
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APPLY hides a doubled P, so players who avoid testing repeats often burn a guess on near-neighbors before they commit. The familiar -LY ending keeps everyday lookalikes alive.
Letters. P appears twice in a row — the main trap. 1 vowel (A).
Pattern. VCCCC. Starts with A, ends with Y.
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