It contains two vowels.
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Wordle Answer Jan 11 #1667
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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 Q.
It ends with K.
In the Standard Model , one of a number of elementary subatomic particles having fractional electric charge that forms matter .
Two letters remain hidden.
QAK
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QUARK
noun
In the Standard Model , one of a number of elementary subatomic particles having fractional electric charge that forms matter . They are theorized not to exist in isolation , but only in combinations in hadrons such as neutrons and protons or in quark–gluon plasmas .
Difficulty 6.2/10
QUARK 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 rarity4.1
Duplicates1.0
Ambiguity4.0
Familiar feel with a balanced letter pattern; most solvers should land it without burning many guesses.
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QUARK has no repeats, so once a few letters land, several similar five-letter neighbors can still look equally plausible.
Letters. No repeated letters. 2 vowels (U, A). K as a closer is less tested than E, T, S, or Y.
Pattern. CVVCC. Starts with Q, ends with K.
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