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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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Wordle August 21 hints
Having trouble getting the Wordle answer today? Here’s a few little clues to help you out:
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Today’s Wordle answer August 21
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
WASTE.
As a fan of dystopian/apocalyptic fiction, I can’t begin to tell you how many books I’ve read with “Wastelands” somewhere in the title. Waste (as either noun, verb, or adjective) can refer to many different things, but all of its uses generally run to a similar theme: degradation, withering, refuse, destruction, and worthlessness are among the cheery topics where this word tends to get used most frequently. And this is becoming kind of a miserable subject, so I’m not going to dwell on it. Instead, I’ll just remind you to be courteous to other Wordle players and not share the answer publicly until tomorrow. Thank you kindly.
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.
Want to spend a quiet Sunday brushing up on your Wordle technique? Then you should check out our guide to thebest Wordle starting wordsand begin your training! Or if your idea of a relaxing weekend is reading a big long list of five-letter words, be sure to go and have a look at our list of all thepast Wordle answersto date!
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.
