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Wordle answer (Thursday 20 October 2022): Wordle word of the day #488 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 Thursday 20 October 2022?Wordletasks its players with sleuthing out the correct five-letter word out of the thousands of possibilities in the English language. It’s a quick game, but it’s not necessarily easy - as you’ll know if you’re a regular player!
But don’t fret, because our daily Wordle guides are here for any player who feels they need a helping hand. Below you can read our three Wordle hints to see if they spark any brainwaves for you; and further below we’ll reveal the Wordle answer itself, along with a description of its meaning if you need it.
Wrong day? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th Decemberinstead!
Wordle October 20 hints
If you’re having trouble figuring out the Wordle answer today, you’re not alone. Wordle can be a very tricky game, after all. But we’re here to help with our selection of carefully chosen Wordle hints:
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Wordle answer today October 20
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
DENIM.
Denim is a durable textile that is often used to make jeans. You might be wearing denim right now, in fact! How exciting.
As always, we ask that you don’t spoil today’s Wordle answer for those who haven’t yet had the chance to play the game and get it right or wrong for themselves. Don’t ruin their fun! It’s not nice.
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.
