It's a noun.
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It contains three vowels.
No letter repeats.
It begins with C.
It ends with E.
A tall bird — or the machine that lifts steel on a building site.
Two letters remain hidden.
CRE
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CRANE
noun
A tall wading bird with a long neck, or a machine for lifting heavy loads.
Similar: derrick, hoist
Difficulty 3.4/10 · Easy
Extremely common starter word — many players already used CRANE as a guess and may overlook it as the answer itself.
Difficulty
3.4/10Easy
Vocabulary2
Letter rarity2
Duplicates1
Ambiguity3
Familiar letters and a common shape; mainly tricky if players refuse to reuse their opener.
Word analysis
Extremely common starter word — many players already used CRANE as a guess and may overlook it as the answer itself.
Letters. Three vowels: A, E. C and R are frequent openers.
Pattern. CCVCV. Clean, no repeats.