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Wordle answer today (Tuesday 8 November 2022): Wordle word of the day #507 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 Tuesday 8 November 2022?Gah, some days you just can’t even, you know? Yeah, you know. One of the saddest things about those days is that even turning to video games for some fun distraction can feel like too much effort. Luckily,Wordleis the sort of game you can pick up and play with such ease that you’ll be pleasantly distracted before you even know it.
If you’re in need of a little assistance solving today’s Wordle, read on below, where we’ve put together a series of clues to help you out. Or, if you just want to know the answer, scroll down below the video for the spoiler (and don’t say I didn’t warn you).
Wordle November 8 hints
Need some pointers towards the Wordle answer today? Here’s a handful of hints to help you out:
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Wordle answer today November 8
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
SPELL.
A spell is a magical charm or incantation, while being able to spell means the ability to form a word with the correct sequence of letters. These sound quite disparate, but they do actually share a root in the Germanic word for “narration”, which in my opinion just confirms what we already knew about literature being a kind of magic. Alternatively, another form of “spell” from a completely different origin can be used to denote a short period of time. Speaking of which, it’s only a spell until the Wordle puzzle resets and you can talk about today’s solution freely, so please be kind and keep it to yourself until tomorrow!
New Wordle changes explained
As of Monday 7th November, The New York Times have announced a change to how they’ll be choosing their Wordle answers going forward, witha dedicated editor now responsible for curating the word list. This has caused a bit of disruption for us here at RPS as we try to work out how to adapt our coverage of Wordle in light of these changes. Please do bear with us, and accept our apologies if you’ve noticed some mistakes in our guides over the past couple of days!
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.
