Wordle doesn't repeat words if it can help it. Perhaps one day the New York Times will need to start recycling old words, but there's an awful lot of viable five-letter words to choose from, so for ...

CLANK seemed like a good way of testing the final letter from my hitlist, but neither it nor 'K' were part of the word. I didn't know it yet, but the two options I could think of — BLAND and ...