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Wordle answer (Friday 19 August 2022): Wordle word of the day #426 and hintsHints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Friday 19 August 2022?It doesn’t seem like five minutes since midsummer, and yet the nights are beginning to draw in again. Still, the prospect of another long autumn and winter on the horizon seems less daunting now that we haveWordleto keep us entertained on a daily basis throughout the darkest months of the year. Unless you’re in Australia or New Zealand, in which case, you can safely flip and reverse everything I’ve just said. But no matter where you call home, there’s one thing we all have in common: sometimes the Wordle answer leaves us a bit stumped. Read on for clues to today’s solution, or scroll down below the video for a spoiler-filled look at the answer.
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Wordle August 19 hints
Having trouble with the Wordle answer today? Here are a few clues to help point you in the right direction:
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Today’s Wordle answer August 19
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
SHRUG.
I dunno, do we really need a definition for this? As Wordle solutions go this one’s a bit… meh, don’t you think? To shrug is to raise one’s shoulders in a display of indifference or uncertainty. It’s also the name of an item of feminine clothing that covers the arms and shoulders but is cut short below them. So it’s all something to do with shoulders, anyway. And, while you may now be indifferent to the prospect of spoilers for today’s Wordle answer, please be considerate of the fact that this won’t be the case for everyone yet! Keep it close to your chest until tomorrow, if you could be so kind.
How to play Wordle
Wordle is a very straightforward word guessing game. The aim is to guess the correct five-letter word in just six guesses. With each guess, the individual letters of your chosen word will highlight green if they’re in the correct place, or yellow if they’re in the wrong place. If a letter doesn’t appear in the solution word at all, it’ll remain unhighlighted.
How did Wordle begin?
Are any Wordle words not allowed?
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.
Is Wordle getting too easy for you?
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.
If you feel like your Wordle technique leaves a little to be desired, why not take a look at our guide to thebest Wordle starting wordsto help you improve your game? We also keep a running list ofpast Wordle answersyou can use to check your guesses against, if you really want to improve your success rate.
Use ourWordle Solver toolto help you figure out the answer to any Wordle in moments! Just pop your current guesses in the grid and watch the tool instantly give you all the potential answers.
