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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 very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.”

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Fill the gap
“The cars were _____ along the motorway during the rush hour.”

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

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Where the vowels sit
The vowels are the third and fourth letters.

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How it ends
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SNAIL

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For SNAIL, the pattern _N__L fixes positions 2 and 5. It matches 22 of 14757 words in our independent five-letter dictionary: ANGEL, ANNAL, ANNUL, ANVIL, ENROL, GNARL, INCEL, INDOL ….

5 dictionary words differ at exactly one position: SCAIL, SKAIL, SNARL, SPAIL, SWAIL. 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.

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A hypothetical SLATE guess against SNAIL produces 2 green, 1 yellow and 2 red.

Exact-position matches occur at 1, 3. The two words share A × 1, L × 1, S × 1, counting each copy at most once. Subtract 2 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 November 27, 2025

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