A high pile of snow sculpted by winter winds shares four of its five letters with a cold current of air entering through a window crack, differing by only a single vowel. What is the pile of snow?
Drift
The snowy mound is called a drift, created when winter blizzards heap up snow. It differs from 'draft', a cold stream of indoor air, by just one letter: the vowel 'I' instead of 'A'. Comparing near-homographs with identical consonant frames is a fundamental strategy for solving wordplay puzzles.
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