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The answer

What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as a noun.

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What it means
“To commit robbery or theft.”

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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Fill the gap
“She made a mess when she _____ through the stack of papers, looking for the title document.”

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

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How it starts
The middle letter
The middle letter is F.

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Reveal the answer
RIFLE

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Compare the letters after solving

For RIFLE, the pattern __FL_ fixes positions 3 and 4. It matches 4 of 14757 words in our independent five-letter dictionary: AFFLY, NIFLE, REFLY, RIFLE.

3 dictionary words differ at exactly one position: NIFLE, RIFTE, RILLE. 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.

Worked Word500 feedback for this answer

A hypothetical SLATE guess against RIFLE produces 1 green, 1 yellow and 3 red.

Exact-position matches occur at 5. The two words share E × 1, L × 1, counting each copy at most once. Subtract 1 exact matches from that overlap to obtain 1 misplaced matches.

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Green totals count correct positions; yellow totals count matching letters in other positions.

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Also on October 16, 2025

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