THE SOLUTION:
“EAR.”
bear, dear, fear, gear, hear, near, pear, rear, sear, tear, wear, year
Got it. So many other answers are close.
Good one Sandy. Got my brain working on this cold and rainy Friday morning
posted by Sue on 10-16-2009 at 8:13 am
I got it! I feel so SMRT!
posted by Rachel on 10-16-2009 at 8:37 am
Can actually use ill as well, because yill and rill are actually words…at least according to dictionary.com
posted by Jason on 10-16-2009 at 9:21 am
I started with Y… That was the giveaway… got it right off!
posted by Kevin on 10-16-2009 at 9:43 am
Wow, I got it on the first try.
posted by Laura on 10-16-2009 at 10:58 am
“ill” too works
posted by Rolan on 10-16-2009 at 11:58 am
@Rolan: nill? rill? yill? Nah.
posted by Johnny Cat on 10-16-2009 at 12:39 pm
‘ang’
‘nang’ is possibly questionable, but Urban Dictionary has an entry for it anyway.
‘uck’ works about as well as ‘ill’, if you allow a few … slang words.
posted by Rai Soleil on 10-16-2009 at 3:24 pm
Wow, for once I didn’t even have to think about it, I just knew the answer with my first glance. I feel smart! =)
posted by jmayhp on 10-16-2009 at 5:02 pm
@Johnny Cat:
rill  [ril] –noun a small rivulet or brook.
yill  [yil] –noun Scot.
I got this from dictionary.com. (And don’t you know “Nill” is “nothing”?
posted by Tdl on 10-18-2009 at 12:54 pm
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@Tdl, nil is typically only spelled with one “l”.
@Rai, “ang” and “uck” are not words. The instructions specified a three-letter *word*.
posted by Lugh on 10-21-2009 at 11:53 am
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Got it. So many other answers are close.
Good one Sandy. Got my brain working on this cold and rainy Friday morning
posted by Sue on 10-16-2009 at 8:13 am
I got it! I feel so SMRT!
posted by Rachel on 10-16-2009 at 8:37 am
Can actually use ill as well, because yill and rill are actually words…at least according to dictionary.com
posted by Jason on 10-16-2009 at 9:21 am
I started with Y… That was the giveaway… got it right off!
posted by Kevin on 10-16-2009 at 9:43 am
Wow, I got it on the first try.
posted by Laura on 10-16-2009 at 10:58 am
“ill” too works
posted by Rolan on 10-16-2009 at 11:58 am
@Rolan:
nill? rill? yill? Nah.
posted by Johnny Cat on 10-16-2009 at 12:39 pm
‘ang’
‘nang’ is possibly questionable, but Urban Dictionary has an entry for it anyway.
‘uck’ works about as well as ‘ill’, if you allow a few … slang words.
posted by Rai Soleil on 10-16-2009 at 3:24 pm
Wow, for once I didn’t even have to think about it, I just knew the answer with my first glance. I feel smart! =)
posted by jmayhp on 10-16-2009 at 5:02 pm
@Johnny Cat:
rill  [ril]
–noun
a small rivulet or brook.
yill  [yil]
–noun Scot.
I got this from dictionary.com.
(And don’t you know “Nill” is “nothing”?
posted by Tdl on 10-18-2009 at 12:54 pm
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posted by Tdl on 10-18-2009 at 12:54 pm
@Tdl, nil is typically only spelled with one “l”.
@Rai, “ang” and “uck” are not words. The instructions specified a three-letter *word*.
posted by Lugh on 10-21-2009 at 11:53 am