Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
In this guide, we’ll provide three helpful hints that you can use to guess today’s Wordle answer and earn the top spot in the family Wordle contest. If you’d rather just cut to the chase, you can also find today’s Wordle answer itself by scrolling down a little further.
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Whether you’re unsure of where to start or you’re just finding today’s Wordle answer particularly tricky, a few hints should certainly help. Below, you’ll find three clues for today’s Wordle answer:
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
ELOPE.
To elope is to run away and get married secretly. That might be to avoid judgemental family members who might disapprove, or it might just be to live your best romcom life. Something about eloping does sound very idyllic. Jetting off somewhere secret to get married in a small, intimate ceremony. None of the awkward familial small talk that becomes necessary when your distant relatives from the Wordle group chat, who you haven’t actually seen in 15 years, show up.
One thing is certain, though. Even if you only see them at big events, you definitely don’t want to annoy those distant relatives by spoiling today’s Wordle answer. Keep this one a secret until midnight, when a new 5-letter word will appear.
Wordle began life as a little family game created by software engineer Josh Wardle. He created the game so that he and his partner could play a fun little word game together during the pandemic, and they quickly realised that there was something quite special in this simple little guessing game. So after a bit of refinement, Wardle released it to the public on his website,Power Language.
You can type in pretty much any five-letter word in the English language and Wordle will accept it as a guess. However, the answer is picked each day from a much smaller list of more common five-letter words. There are still thousands of possible answers, of course, but it means the answer will never be a word as obscure as, say, “THIOL”, or “CAIRD”, or “MALIC” (yes, those are all real words).
There are very occasional words which the New York Times will choose not to publish as the day’s Wordle answer, perhaps for reasons relating to recent news or politics. For example, shortly after news broke that Roe v Wade might be overturned in the United States, the NYT decided to change the March 30th word from “FETUS” to “SHINE”, as the feeling was that the word “fetus” was too politically charged a word in the context of recent events.
The New York Times has also been careful never to allow what they consider to be rude words as the answer to a Wordle puzzle. But of course there’s nothing stopping you from using even the dirtiest of words as guesses, as long as they’re accepted words in the dictionary, and as long as you realise that they’ll never end up being the answer.
If Wordle is starting to get too easy, there are a few ways you can make the game more challenging for yourself. The first choice is to turn on Hard Mode. You can do this on the Wordle site by clicking the cog icon in the top-right of the screen. Hard Mode means that any highlighted lettersmustbe used in all future guesses. This stops you from using the common tactic of choosing two words like “OUNCE” and “PAINS” to test all five vowels early on.
You can take it up another notch by playing by what we call “Ultra-Hard” rules. This means that every guess you entermustpotentially be the answer. If you were just playing on Hard Mode, and you typed “MOIST”, and the “O” appeared yellow, then nothing would stop you from making “POLAR” as your next word, even though it couldn’t possibly be the answer because you already know the “O” is in the wrong place. If you play by “Ultra-Hard” rules, that’s not allowed. You must adhere to every clue, and make sure every single word you enter is potentially the answer.
If after all that Wordle is still too easy for you, then you could always try one of the many other Wordle-inspired games online that have cropped up over the past year. One of our favourites isWorldle, in which you must guess a country of the world based on its shape. There’s alsoWaffle, which is about swapping letters in a completed grid to complete all the words;Moviedle, which shows you an entire movie in a tiny space of time and challenges you to guess the movie within six guesses; andQuordle, which tasks you with solving four Wordles at once with the same guesses.
That wraps up our guide on today’s Wordle answer. If you want to hone your puzzle powers while waiting for the next word to drop, check out our list of thebest Wordle starting words. Since words only appear once on Wordle, you can also avoid wasting future guesses by taking a look at our list ofpast Wordle answers.
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