I have picked up a certain word, changed each of its consonants into a letter C and each of its vowels to V.
Then, to cause you extra excitement, introduced an error i.e. changed one of the letters (either replaced C by V or vice versa).
It is
Obvious that the word is not an esoteric one and may be recovered by considering the following hint:
the number 12544 will lead you to the distorted word, you will correct it to get the original one.
Enjoy!
Going back: 12100 is 110^2 110 binary representation is 1101110 which is either CCVCCCV or VVCVVVC , one of them with one letter “inverted” represents the structure of the word we look for..
Since I claimed that it is a common words- not an esoteric one- it is probably somewhere in the puzzle’s text.
Now go ahead and solve the diluted puzzle.
BTW The pencil draft contained the number 110, while typing I have introduced an additional distortion 110 somehow became 112 and so 12544 walked in.
It is obvious that you will arrive to the correct solution.