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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Thursday 4 August 2022?Wordleis a worldwide phenomenon that’s captured us all for over half a year, bringing a new 5-letter word each and every day. Most of them are tricky, and all of them leave us stumped for at least a moment. If you’re stuck staring at a blank grid and aren’t sure where to start, or you just want a little nudge in the right direction, then we’re here to help.
Below, you’ll find three handy hints for today’s Wordle answer. If you just need to know the solution, then keep scrolling to find today’s Wordle answer further down.
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Wordle August 4 hints
There’s no harm in asking for a little bit of help, and our clues will push you in the right direction without spoiling today’s Wordle outright. Below, you’ll find three hints for today’s Wordle answer:
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Today’s Wordle answer August 4
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
RHYME.
Time, sublime, climb, mime - lots of words rhyme with rhyme. In the movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the Whos like to rhyme all the time. Whenever I watch it, I proceed to also start rhyming non-stop for about a day, at which point I run out of rhyming words and take a nap. Rhyming non-stop is harder than it sounds.
Now that you know today’s Wordle answer, make sure you don’t spill the beans to your friends and family. We all like to play the Wordle puzzle at a different time of day, and it’d be mean to spoil the answer before others have the chance to play.
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’s it for today’s Wordle answer, but come back tomorrow for more useful clues. In the meantime, make sure to take a look at our list of thebest Wordle starting words, as they’ll also help you narrow down the answer much faster. To avoid wasting guesses on words that might have been appeared as previous solutions, check out our list ofpast Wordle answers
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.
