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Today's NYT Wordle lands with puzzle #1661, and this Monday challenge serves up a straightforward noun with common letters but a double consonant that could trip up pattern recognition..

If we slip (on the ice, i.e. accidentally) rather than slide on it, the final consonant is doubled when -ing is added. This is because the consonant comes at the end of the word and is preceded by ...