freitasm: In my case I actually went through four words before the correct one - all of them ending with the same three letters. That put a spanner in the works.

Yeah I had a quick chuckle when I saw yours. Thinking to myself: oof. so close yet so far.

This game makes me overthink. The answer might be something simple like water, yet here I am trying to come up with words I've never heard of. Wyter? Whter? Surely that's a word!