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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word

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A close-up of part of a Wordle grid. The letters spell “what is the answer”.

Looking for the Wordle answer for Sunday 4 September 2022?Happy Sunday and salutations to our readers in the US, who are only midway through their three-day weekend! For those of us whose bank holidays have somehow already been and gone, take some comfort in the fact that there’s alwaysWordleto enjoy. But if you find yourself a bit stuck, we’ve put together some clues to help you out with today’s solution. You can even scroll down below the video for the full answer and definition, if you’d prefer.

Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th Decemberinstead!

Wordle September 4 hints

Strugglingwith the Wordle answer today? Here’s a few hints to help you out:

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Today’s Wordle answer September 4

It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…

INTER.

As a discrete word, “inter” goes back to its Latin roots: it literally means “into the earth”, and despite that sounding like quite a broad action, in formal usage it exclusively refers to burying a body. There’s no really cheery way to spin this one into an appeal for consideration that wouldn’t be grossly inappropriate, so I’ll just remind you as always to please not spoil the answer for other players until tomorrow. Thank you!

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 the best techniques to improve your Wordle scores, be sure to check out our guide to thebest Wordle starting words. Or, for a list of every single Wordle solution to date, have a look at ourpast Wordle answerspage instead!

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.