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Phoodle Classic hints for · #989

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The answer

What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as a noun.

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What it means
“A town and municipality in Isère department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.”

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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Where the vowels sit
The vowels are the first, fourth and fifth letters.

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The middle letter
The middle letter is J.

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How it ends
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ANJOU

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For ANJOU, the pattern _N__U fixes positions 2 and 5. It matches 1 of 14757 words in our independent five-letter dictionary: SNAFU.

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Also on January 21, 2025

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