Only one of its five letters is a vowel.
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Wordle Answer May 5 #1781
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It's a verb — an action or state, not a thing or describing word.
No letter repeats, and the pattern is uncommon in casual speech.
It begins with L.
It ends with H.
To catch; lay hold of.
Two letters remain hidden.
LTH
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LATCH
verb
/lætʃ/
To catch; lay hold of.
Difficulty 6.4/10
LATCH has no repeats, so once a few letters land, several similar five-letter neighbors can still look equally plausible.
Difficulty
6.4/10
Wordle DNA
Vocabulary3.5
Letter rarity2.4
Duplicates1.0
Ambiguity4.0
Trap risk7.6
Why?
The main pressure is trap risk (7.6/10).
Lookalikes around _ATCH can burn guesses.
Familiar feel with a balanced letter pattern; most solvers should land it without burning many guesses. Trap pattern _ATCH raises lookalike risk.
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LATCH 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 (A). H as a closer is less tested than E, T, S, or Y.
Pattern. CVCCC. Starts with L, ends with H.
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