My prefix I trail,
My suffix is male,
My infix is home to a wonder.
I make my prefix periodic,
My infix melodic,
My suffix detrimentally blunder.
What am I?
Inspired by the original 'Riley riddle'.
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Sign up to join this communityMy prefix I trail,
My suffix is male,
My infix is home to a wonder.
I make my prefix periodic,
My infix melodic,
My suffix detrimentally blunder.
What am I?
Inspired by the original 'Riley riddle'.
I think you are and the word is
anagram
My prefix I trail,
I'm at the loss for this first one.
But maybe the full answer to "What am I" is meant to be "an anagram", where the prefix an would reappear as the indefinite article, with you (anagram) trailing it.
My suffix is male,
just m, short for male in many forms querying the sex of a person
hagfy suggested ram instead, which is a better fit and makes more sense in the second part of the answer, but it overlaps with the infix, so I'll leave both options in.
My infix is home to a wonder.
Agra is home to the Taj Mahal, one of the so-called modern seven wonders of the world.
Now here is the twist for the remaining three
With the phrasing I make and you being anagram, I suppose the next three hints refer to anagrams of the prefix, infix and suffix respectively.
I make my prefix periodic
The anagram of an is na, which stands for sodium in the periodic table of elements
My infix melodic,
one possible anagram to Agra would be Raga, a musical style. Or, more precisely: "the melodic framework for improvisation akin to a melodic mode in Indian classical music" (quoting Wikipedia)
My suffix detrimentally blunder.
I suppose this refers to the fact that there is no anagram to a single letter.
With hagfy's suggestion instead, this would be mar, which fits nicely.
The title, as Mister B keenly spotted and NL628 already indicated right away
is an anagram of "another riley riddle".
Thanks to Mister B and hagfy for helping with the details.