What is a Peruvian Word™?

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_{This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.}

If a word has a certain property, I call it a Peruvian Word™.

You can use the examples below to find the property:

Peruvian Word™	Non-Peruvian Word™
COVER	COAT
BANGED	SLAMMED
BEND	TWIST
FAILED	PASSED
ENDER	FINISHER
CAPPED	HATTED
BEAKER	FLASK
BANKED	RAMPED
BOT*	ROBOT
BARING	SHOWING

* represents Extra-Peruvian Word™.

Here is a CSV version:

Peruvian Word™, Non-Peruvian Word™  
COVER,COAT
BANGED,SLAMMED
BEND,TWIST
FAILED,PASSED
ENDER,FINISHER
CAPPED,HATTED
BEAKER,FLASK
BANKED,RAMPED
BOT*,ROBOT
BARING,SHOWING

...I had this exact same property in mind for a future puzzle, though I was going to call it a Christmas Word. — Deusovi, Oct 19 '16 at 15:04
Interesting. Rather in the spirit of the very first "word-property" puzzle on this site. — Rand al'Thor, Oct 20 '16 at 00:25

score 34 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 19 '16 at 12:58

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I think a Peruvian word is one for which

You can add a letter L to make another word

The examples are

COVER → CLOVER
BANGED → BANGLED
BEND → BLEND
FAILED → FLAILED
ENDER → LENDER
CAPPED → CLAPPED
BEAKER → BLEAKER
BANKED → BLANKED
BOT → BLOT and BOLT (extra Peruvian)
BARING → BLARING

And they may be called Peruvian because Lima is the NATO phonetic alphabet for the letter 'L'

answered Oct 19 '16 at 12:58

Tom

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Wow, Coatl is so embedded in my brain as a word from way too many games that I never would have come up with that. Congratulations. – Sconibulus Oct 19 '16 at 13:01
@Sconibulus Where is "Coatl"? – EKons Oct 19 '16 at 13:34
@ΈρικΚωνσταντόπουλος adding an L to the end of COAT, the first Non-Peruvian word – Sconibulus Oct 19 '16 at 13:36
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@Sconibulus Hate to break it on you, but here it says that coatl is not an English word. – EKons Oct 19 '16 at 13:38

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 19 '16 at 14:38

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Credit to Tom for discovering the salient property. Perhaps such words are called Peruvian because

"lama" is Peruvian thanks to "llama".

answered Oct 19 '16 at 14:38

Rosie F

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What is a Peruvian Word™?

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