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Wordle answer (Tuesday 3 January 2023): Wordle word of the day #563 and hintsHints and the answer to Wordle word #563
Hints and the answer to Wordle word #563
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Tuesday 3 January 2023?Happy New Year, everybody! It’s my first day back at work in 2023 and I’m ready to get back into the swing of things, which of course means telling you everything you need to know about today’sWordlepuzzle.
So, without further ado, here we go again! Below I’ve put together a handful of hints to help you figure out today’s solution. Alternatively, you can scroll down below the video to see the answer and definition in full.
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Wordle January 3 hints
Want some clues for the Wordle answer today? Here are some hints to get you going:
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Wordle answer today January 3
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
ANTIC.
While the noun “antics” to describe foolish behaviour is still familiar to modern ears, the related adjective “antic” has largely fallen out of use. However, knock off that final letter “S” and you do indeed have a five-letter Wordle-worthy word used to describe something grotesque or bizarre. It presumably mainly relates to a person’s actions, but I quite like the idea of bringing “antic” back to describe anything a bit on the weird side, like clothing or architecture. And now that you know the answer, please be sure not to spoil it for other players today!
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.
