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Wordle answer (Saturday 13 August 2022): Wordle word of the day #420 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 Saturday 13 August 2022?Rise and shine, weekenders. It’s time forWordle#420 - a rather special number, as we all know! After all, who among us reads the number 420 and doesn’t immediately think of the International 420 Dinghy, that popular sailing dinghy used for teaching, training, and team racing? Yep, that’s definitely what we were all thinking.
To keep today’s Wordle from casting a pall upon your weekend, below we’ll revealed the Wordle answer and an explanation of the word’s meaning for those who have never heard of it before. We’ve also got some hints and clues to help make discerning the answer a little easier for those who want to figure out the solution for themselves.
Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th December!
Wordle August 13 hints
We get it. Wordle is hard sometimes. Sometimes it seems like the word just neatly sidesteps all six of your attempts to pin it down. So allow us to help you out a bit with our three hints and tips for divining the Wordle answer today:
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Today’s Wordle answer August 13
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
HUNKY.
Just think of Chris Hemsworth or Henry Cavill, and you’ll have a fairly decent idea of what “hunky” means. A hunky person is generally well-built and attractive, and the word “hunk” is usually used to describe a large, muscle-bound male physique.
As always, we beseech all our readers to keep the news of today’s Wordle answer under wraps, and not go spreading it around where it isn’t wanted. Let people figure out the answer on their own, and all will be well.
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.
For those of you who wish to improve your chances of guessing future Wordle words in six or fewer guesses, check out our guide of thebest Wordle starting words. You can also have a trawl through our exhaustive archive of allpast Wordle answers, so you can see if a word has already been chosen as the answer, and therefore cannot be chosen again.
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.
