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.
One letter appears twice, and those copies sit next to each other.
It begins with K.
It ends with L.
Any of several small marine crustacean species of plankton in the order Euphausiacea in the class Malacostraca.
Two letters remain hidden.
KIL
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KRILL
noun
/kɹɪl/
Any of several small marine crustacean species of plankton in the order Euphausiacea in the class Malacostraca.
Difficulty 7.5/10
KRILL hides a doubled L, so players who avoid testing repeats often burn a guess on near-neighbors before they commit.
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Wordle DNA
Vocabulary3.5
Letter rarity2.6
Duplicates7.0
Ambiguity4.5
Trap risk4.2
Why?
The main pressure is duplicates (7/10).
Familiar feel with a consecutive repeated letter; most solvers should land it without burning many guesses.
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KRILL hides a doubled L, so players who avoid testing repeats often burn a guess on near-neighbors before they commit.
Letters. L appears twice in a row — the main trap. 1 vowel (I). L as a closer is less tested than E, T, S, or Y.
Pattern. CCVCC. Starts with K, ends with L.
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