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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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Want to know the Wordle answer for Monday 5 December 2022?Oh, look at that - another week has passed, and another sevenWordlepuzzles are eagerly awaiting your perusal. Knowledge of the English language, broken down into daily bite-sized chunks. Endless supplies of new and interesting five-letter words injected into your morning routines. Now that’s edutainment.
If you’re a little stuck with today’s Wordle answer, fear not. Below you can peruse our list of Wordle hints to help you arrive at the solution - and if that doesn’t work, scroll below the video to reveal the Wordle answer today, and an explanation of the word’s meaning.
Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th December!
Wordle December 5 hints
The Wordle answer today might be a tricky one for a lot of players. To help you maintain that all-important win streak, take a look below at our three Wordle hints for today:
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Wordle answer today December 5
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
WOKEN.
Before we begin, I’d like to invite you to re-read the opening paragraph of this guide, and see if you can spot something. Perhaps involving the first letters of each sentence…
Yeah, I know. I have too much time on my hands. Anyway, moving on!
“Woken” may sound a little archaic when you say it out loud, but as the official past participle of “wake”, it is still very much present day English. It may have tripped you up all the same, particularly since American English favours the term “waked”. Please, please. Don’t get up in arms about it. This humble Wordle guide is not the place to settle such linguistic brawls.
In any case, please refrain from spoiling today’s Wordle answer to those who haven’t yet played the game today. Let them have their fun, and figure things out 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.
