Only one of its five letters is a vowel.
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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 F.
It ends with Y.
A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
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FISHY
noun
/ˈfɪʃi/
A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
Difficulty 4.2/10
FISHY has no repeats, so once a few letters land, several similar five-letter neighbors can still look equally plausible.
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Wordle DNA
Vocabulary3.5
Letter rarity3.4
Duplicates1.0
Ambiguity5.5
Familiar feel with a balanced letter pattern; most solvers should land it without burning many guesses.
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FISHY has no repeats, so once a few letters land, several similar five-letter neighbors can still look equally plausible.
Letters. No repeated letters. 1 vowel (I).
Pattern. CVCCC. Starts with F, ends with Y.
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