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Betweenle Classic hints for · #897

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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 a verb.

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What it means
“To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.).”

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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Vowels and repeats
One vowel. One letter appears twice.

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The middle letter
The middle letter is R.

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How it starts
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PARRY

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Compare the letters after solving

For PARRY, the pattern P__R_ fixes positions 1 and 4. It matches 41 of 14757 words in our independent five-letter dictionary: PADRE, PADRI, PAGRI, PAIRE, PAIRS, PAPRI, PARRA, PARRS ….

13 dictionary words differ at exactly one position: BARRY, CARRY, HARRY, MARRY, PARDY, PARKY, PARLY, PARRA …. 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

PARRY comes after PARRS: the first different letter is at position 5, where PARRY has Y and PARRS has S. Earlier positions match.

PARRY comes before PARSE: the first different letter is at position 4, where PARRY has R and PARSE has S. 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 August 29, 2025

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Letter clues and worked solving examples are deterministic calculations. Record revision: 669f9833ce40.

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