<h2 data-path-to-node="57">Duplicate Letter Diagnostics and Suffix Patterns</h2>
<p data-path-to-node="58">When a puzzle feels impossible because no valid English word fits your remaining pool of letters, you are almost certainly dealing with a <strong data-path-to-node="58" data-index-in-node="138">duplicate letter. Wordle Today

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[TWIN VOWELS] [TWIN CONSONANTS] [BOOKEND SPLIT]
&bull; SWEET (Double E) &bull; SKILL (Double L) &bull; ERODE (Split E)
&bull; SPOON (Double O) &bull; GRASS (Double S) &bull; TRUST (Split T)
&bull; BLEEP (Double E) &bull; OTTER (Double T) &bull; LEVEL (Split L)
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<h3 data-path-to-node="60">The Engine's Duplicate Processing Rules</h3>
<p data-path-to-node="61">The feedback engine processes letters from left to right, prioritizing exact positional matches (Green) before assigning relative presence (Yellow):

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<p data-path-to-node="62,0,0">If the secret word is <strong data-path-to-node="62,0,0" data-index-in-node="22">ROBOT and you guess <strong data-path-to-node="62,0,0" data-index-in-node="42">BOOST:

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<p data-path-to-node="62,0,1,0,0">The <strong data-path-to-node="62,0,1,0,0" data-index-in-node="4">B turns Yellow (exists elsewhere).

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<p data-path-to-node="62,0,1,1,0">The first <strong data-path-to-node="62,0,1,1,0" data-index-in-node="10">O turns Green (exact match in slot two).

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<p data-path-to-node="62,0,1,2,0">The second <strong data-path-to-node="62,0,1,2,0" data-index-in-node="11">O turns <strong data-path-to-node="62,0,1,2,0" data-index-in-node="19">Gray (the single instance in the target is already satisfied).

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<p data-path-to-node="62,0,1,3,0">The <strong data-path-to-node="62,0,1,3,0" data-index-in-node="4">S and <strong data-path-to-node="62,0,1,3,0" data-index-in-node="10">T process normally.

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<p data-path-to-node="63">A gray tile on a repeated letter does not mean that letter is completely absent from the solution; it simply confirms that the target does not contain a <em data-path-to-node="63" data-index-in-node="153">second copy.