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Wordle answer (Friday 30 December 2022): Wordle word of the day #559 and hintsHints and the answer to Wordle #559
Hints and the answer to Wordle #559
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Friday 30 December 2022?Two more days of 2022 remain. 2023 has breached the perimeter, and is closing in on our position fast. If you’ve any lingering resolutions left unmet from back in January, you’d better get on them pronto. Just ensure you leave some time to complete today’sWordlepuzzle, which we’re here to help you with through this handy guide.
Below, you’ll find a trio of hints that’ll lure you gradually closer to the Wordle answer today. If you’re here to maintain a streak, the answer to today’s Wordle puzzle lurks farther down the page, like a trapdoor spider awaiting a passing cricket.
Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th December!
Wordle December 30 hints
The Wordle answer today is hard in more ways than one. But don’t let that grind you down. Here are three clues to help you get your teeth into today’s puzzle:
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Wordle answer today December 30
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
MOLAR.
A molar is a grinding tooth found at the back of a mammal’s mouth. The word derives from the Latinmolaris dens, which literally means “grinding tooth”. This itself stems frommola, the Latin for millstone. Molar can also pertain to the chemistry unit of “moles”, used to measure the amount of a substance. It has nothing to do with the small burrowing mammal, although interestingly, moles do have molars.
Now you know the Wordle answer today, bite down on it. Keep it a secret and avoid spoiling it for others. At midnight, Wordle’s daily puzzle will reset, at which point you can flap your jaw about molars as much as you like.
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 need some help with future Wordles, be sure to check out our list of thebest Wordle starting wordsfor the greatest chance of success. You can also check out our archive ofpast Wordle answersto see which words have been chosen previously.
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.
