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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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In this guide, you’ll find three clues that you can use to find the Wordle answer today. If you’re out of time and need to skip to the answer, keep scrolling to find it further down.
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Wordle September 13 hints
If you need pointing in the right direction, look no further. Below, you’ll find three helpful hints that’ll help you solve the Wordle answer today:
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Today’s Wordle answer September 13
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
ALPHA.
Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, and I’m only now realising that alphabet is a mashup of alpha and beta. Let me just compose myself.
Alpha is also used in military lingo to relay codes, but I tend to use it when spelling my name out over the phone because the line is crackly. In the world of wolves, an alpha is also the leader of the pack. If you’re a fan of The Walking Dead, you’ll recognise that the villainous leader of the Whisperers also named themselves Alpha, thanks to their animalistic ways. While, Alpha might have been a villain, we’re sure that she wouldn’t have spoiled the Wordle answer for others. If you want to avoid turning evil, we suggest keeping the Wordle answer today a secret.
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 our guide on the Wordle answer today, but come back tomorrow for more help with the next Wordle puzzle. If you want to sharpen your skills in the meantime, check out our list of thebest Wordle starting words. To avoid repeating words that have already appeared in the past, take a look at 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.
