I did it in 4! Had the last 3 letters correct and just put in lots of daft words but didn't press enter and suddenly I realised if I changed the first letter of daft word number 12 [ish] there was a proper word and it was the right word too ..... Hoorah!!
merlotgran ? How exciting! I somehow managed to do that a couple of weeks ago with the first word that popped into my head “Light” I convinced myself I’d suddenly developed psychic powers and bought a lottery ticket with 6 random numbers. I didn’t have one of the 6 winning numbers ?