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The Clue
Not quite (8 letter answer)
The Answer
SCARCELY
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Notes
The answer SCARCELY is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
SCARCELY as an adverb:
1. (barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce) = by a small margin; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
2. (hardly, scarcely) = almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"