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Betweenle Classic hints for · #57

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1 word. Every reveal is your choice.

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The answer

What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as an adjective, and also as a noun.

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What it means
“Of or relating to a monarch or his (or her) family.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

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How it ends
How it starts
The middle letter
The middle letter is Y.

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Reveal the answer
ROYAL

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Compare the letters after solving

For ROYAL, the pattern __Y_L fixes positions 3 and 5. It matches 9 of 14757 words in our independent five-letter dictionary: DAYAL, GAYAL, GHYLL, IDYLL, KHYAL, LOYAL, RIYAL, ROYAL ….

6 dictionary words differ at exactly one position: LOYAL, RIYAL, ROMAL, RORAL, ROSAL, ROTAL. Check that differing position before treating a familiar spelling as the solution.

This comparison explains spelling constraints. These are dictionary matches, not the publisher's accepted guesses or historical answer pool.

Why these alphabetical bounds work

ROYAL comes after ROWTS: the first different letter is at position 3, where ROYAL has Y and ROWTS has W. Earlier positions match.

ROYAL comes before ROYET: the first different letter is at position 4, where ROYAL has A and ROYET has E. Earlier positions match.

These neighbours come from our independent dictionary. They illustrate alphabetical comparison, not an official distance score or a recorded play session.

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Also on May 12, 2023

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