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Wordle answer (Monday 26 September 2022): Wordle word of the day #464 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 Monday 26 September 2022?One of the few saving graces of Mondays is that it’s yet another day where you get to partake in the New York Times' effortlessly enjoyableWordleword puzzle. Wordle challenges you to find the right 5-letter word within just 6 guesses, and often it teaches you something new about the English language while you’re at it.
If you need a helping hand when it comes to figuring out the solution to today’s Wordle, you’ve come to the right little corner of the internet. Below we’ll offer up three carefully crafted hints to help you figure out the Wordle answer for today; and further below we’ll reveal the word itself along with a description of its meaning.
Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th December!
Wordle September 26 hints
If engaging your brain is a little too tall an order for a lethargic Monday morning, don’t despair. Have a read of the below Wordle hints and see if they spark any brainwaves regarding the Wordle answer today:
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Wordle answer today September 26
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
BRISK.
Today’s Wordle answer is “BRISK”, a word with decidedly chill connotations. Brisk generally means quick or energetic, but it is also widely used to describe coldness - for example, you might take a brisk jog during a brisk December morning.
As always, we encourage you to keep the secret of today’s Wordle answer to yourself, and not spoil the fun for those who haven’t yet played the game. If you want to brag about your win, then do so via Wordle’s spoiler-free sharing functionality!
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.
