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Hints and the answer to Wordle word
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Wednesday 12 October 2022?If so, congratulations! You’re one of many, many thousands of players who seek to inject just a little bit of brainteasing word puzzling into their daily routines. It’s something to be applauded - we could all do well to learn more about language, and expand our vocabularies, because how likely is it really that we know every single five-letter word in the English language?
Today’sWordleword is a rather unusual one, and might stump a lot of players. But fear not, reader! You’ve come to the right place to preserve your winning streak. Below we’ll walk you through a few handy Wordle hints, and further down we’ll reveal today’s Wordle answer itself along with the word’s multi-layered definition.
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Wordle October 12 hints
The Wordle answer today is definitely a trickier one than you often see in Wordle. If you’re starting to think you might not be able to keep your winning streak going, then check out our Wordle hints below for some assistance:
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Wordle answer today October 12
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
IONIC.
A tricky word today given the repeated “i” and the unusual prevalence of vowels in general. In case you’re unsure what “IONIC” means, it’s most often used as a chemistry term related to an ion, which is an atom with an electrical charge that isnotzero - i.e. it has more protons than electrons. It’s also got a different meaning in the world of poetry: ionic meter is a poetic metre used in ancient Greek and Latin.
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.
