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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Thursday 11 August 2022?Wordleis often tricky, but it’s hardest when you manage to narrow down every letter but the first. The game that ensues as you waste precious guesses to find that one missing letter is more terrifying than a bird flapping its wings really close to the bench you’re sitting on (birds are scary). Fortunately, we’re here to help you find today’s Wordle answer without any of that panic. We can’t help with the birds, though. Sorry.
Below, you’ll find three helpful hints that will nudge you towards today’s Wordle answer. If a nudge isn’t enough and you need a big shove, then keep scrolling to find the Wordle answer today below those clues.
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Wordle August 11 hints
If you’ve found a few letters, that also means you’ve lost a few guesses. If you are panicking about losing a streak and need to solve the Wordle answer today in the next try, we’ve got you covered. Below, you’ll find three clues that will help you solve the Wordle answer today:
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Today’s Wordle answer August 11
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
GLEAN.
Glean is a verb that describes trying to gather information from something that might not be very clear. A pirate, for example, might struggle to glean the location of their treasure from a map that’s covered in milk.
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.
That wraps up our guide for the Wordle answer today, but the puzzles don’t stop there. A new word will appear tomorrow, so you should practice in the meantime. If you want to increase your puzzling power, take a look at our list of thebest Wordle starting words. To simply avoid wasting guesses in the future, check out our list ofpast Wordle answers, as Wordle never repeats a solution.
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.
