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Phoodle Classic hints for · #742

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Food clue

Think of a family of savoury dishes, not one fixed recipe.

Sources (may reveal the answer)

Supporting source 1 · Wiktionary contributors, “kofta”, linked revision · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original concise paraphrase of contributor-written definitions or factual prose. Puzzle connections and clue wording are independently authored. Adapted text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. No third-party quotations, photographs, audio or publisher hint prose are reused.

Stronger clue

The cited food sense includes spiced meatballs and meatloaf.

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Supporting source 1 · Wiktionary contributors, “kofta”, linked revision · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original concise paraphrase of contributor-written definitions or factual prose. Puzzle connections and clue wording are independently authored. Adapted text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. No third-party quotations, photographs, audio or publisher hint prose are reused.

Why this answer fits

KOFTA names several kinds of spiced meatball or meatloaf dishes. This is a supported culinary sense shared across multiple food traditions; the word alone does not identify one country or one recipe.

Supporting source 1 · Wiktionary contributors, “kofta”, linked revision · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original concise paraphrase of contributor-written definitions or factual prose. Puzzle connections and clue wording are independently authored. Adapted text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. No third-party quotations, photographs, audio or publisher hint prose are reused.

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The answer

What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as a noun.

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What it means
“Any of various spicy meatball or meatloaf dishes of the Middle East, Caucasus, South Asia, and the Balkans.”

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
The middle letter
The middle letter is F.

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How it starts
Reveal the answer
KOFTA

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Compare the letters after solving

For KOFTA, the pattern K_F__ fixes positions 1 and 3. It matches 5 of 14757 words in our independent five-letter dictionary: KAFIR, KEFIR, KOFFS, KOFTA, KUFIS.

1 dictionary word differs at exactly one position: SOFTA. 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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Also on May 19, 2024

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