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Look for an edible ingredient that comes from the sea.
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This kelp is used in East Asian cooking.
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KOMBU is edible kelp used in East Asian cuisine. Its connection is an actual seaweed ingredient, rather than a generic reference to seafood.
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For KOMBU, the pattern ___BU fixes positions 4 and 5. It matches 5 of 14757 words in our independent five-letter dictionary: JAMBU, KOMBU, KONBU, MAMBU, URUBU.
2 dictionary words differ at exactly one position: KOMBI, KONBU. Check that differing position before treating a familiar spelling as the solution.
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Food words can include ingredients, utensils, dishes and cooking terms. This independent solver checks letter evidence; it does not claim that every candidate is in Phoodle's answer list.
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