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Betweenle Classic hints for · #493

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Just enough help

1 word. Every reveal is your choice.

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The answer

What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as a noun.

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Fill the gap
“I'm _____ a small apartment in Runcorn for a month while I'm there for work.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentence selected from Wiktionary, with the answer removed.

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Vowels and repeats
Three vowels. One letter appears twice.

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How it starts
Where the vowels sit
The vowels are the second, third and fifth letters.

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Reveal the answer
LEASE

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Compare the letters after solving

For LEASE, the pattern L__S_ fixes positions 1 and 4. It matches 23 of 14757 words in our independent five-letter dictionary: LAKSA, LAPSE, LASSI, LASSO, LASSU, LASSY, LAWSY, LEASE ….

14 dictionary words differ at exactly one position: CEASE, FEASE, LEARE, LEASH, LEAST, LEAVE, LEAZE, LEESE …. 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

LEASE comes after LEARY: the first different letter is at position 4, where LEASE has S and LEARY has R. Earlier positions match.

LEASE comes before LEASH: the first different letter is at position 5, where LEASE has E and LEASH has H. 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 July 21, 2024

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