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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Friday 26 August 2022?If you can believe it, it’s Friday once again! The weekend is basically here, but before you switch your brain off for 48 hours, there’s time for one more weekdayWordle. But if you find your little grey cells are a little demob happy already, worry not, because we’ve got helpful hints for today’s Wordle solution laid out below. You can even scroll down below the video to see a full solution and definition.
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Wordle August 26 hints
Need some help getting the Wordle answer today? Here are a few clues to help you out:
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Today’s Wordle answer August 26
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
IRONY.
Isn’t it ironic? Well, actually, the lyrics to the Alanis Morisette song “Ironic” describe unfortunate coincidences, which aren’t the same thing at all. In conversation, irony works a lot like sarcasm, but irony can also refer to a situation — just not one where you simply didn’t get what you wanted. To qualify as irony, the outcome needs to be the opposite of what you might have reasonably expected to happen. The end result is often darkly funny; think a police station getting burgled, for example. It’s actually quite fun to look up scenarios that meet the definition of irony, and as an added bonus, it’ll keep you entertained until tomorrow when you can safely share the solution to today’s Wordle — don’t let it slip before, please!
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 word puzzling technique could use some improvement, take a look at our guide to thebest Wordle starting wordsto see if you can shave a couple of guesses off your daily stats! We also keep a list of all thepast Wordle answersfor your ease of reference.
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.
