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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Monday 12 December 2022?Welcome, one and all, to another Monday. Only two more Mondays after this one before the end of the year! What a chilling thought. Thankfully, we can distract ourselves from the irrevocable onward march of time with another dailyWordle.
If you’re struggling a little with today’s Wordle, or you just want to maintain your winning streak for another day, then you’ve come to the right place. Below we’ll offer you a few carefully crafted hints to help you figure out the Wordle solution today. If that’s not enough, scroll below the video for the Wordle answer itself, and a definition for those who want it.
Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th December!
Wordle December 12 hints
There’s no surefire way to beat Wordle every day. A good starting word for one day might end up being a terrible one on another. To make things a little easier for today at least, take a look at these handy Wordle hints and see if they’ll help you discern the Wordle answer today:
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Wordle answer today December 12
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
APPLY.
The word apply has a few different meanings and uses. You mightapplyfor a position as the first step in getting a job. Once you’re in that position, you may have toapplyyourself (which means to work hard) in order to stay there and earn a positive reputation. Perhaps you might then be concerned about news of wage cuts, before learning that they do notapplyto those in your position at the company.
In any case, whether you found today’s Wordle easy or challenging, be sure not to spoil the answer to anyone who hasn’t yet had the opportunity to play the game for themselves!
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.
