Wordle #662 Hints and Answer
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Wordle #662: BORAX
noun. A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, found in nature as a mineral, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
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BORAX has 5 different letters and 2 standard vowels. No letter repeats, so each of the five positions uses a different letter.
Its structure is CVCVC, counting A, E, I, O and U as vowels. In our 12,653-word dictionary, 3 other words share its first and last letters, including BEAUX, BEMIX, BOLIX. Those words are examples of matching structure, not verified game answers.