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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Wednesday 17 August 2022?Wordlereally shows no signs of slowing in popularity, even over a year later. To be fair, it hasn’t quite been a year since it exploded in popularity and became a viral sensation - enough for its creator to sell the game to the New York Times for millions. Ah, Josh Wardle. You did alright with this little endeavour, didn’t you?
If you’re looking for today’s Wordle answer, you’ve come to the right place. We’ll start with our usual series of three hints to see if you can get the answer on your own with just a little bit of guidance; and then further down the page we’ll reveal the Wordle answer itself, along with a definition of the word if needed.
Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th December!
Wordle August 17 hints
Sometimes, Wordles are hard. And sometimes, we like things to be easy. It’s okay, we don’t judge. If you want a bit of guidance figuring out the Wordle answer today, check out the below three handy hints:
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Today’s Wordle answer August 17
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
TWICE.
Twice! Not once, but twice. Two times. Twice. Got it? Got it.
As always, we ask that you don’t spoil today’s Wordle answer to anyone who hasn’t yet had the chance to play today’s puzzle for themselves. It’s fine to let people figure things out on their own, alright?
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.
Become an unstoppable Wordle-solving monster with the help of our guides on thebest Wordle starting wordsandpast Wordle answers. The first will help get each Wordle off to a great start, and the second will help you when narrowing down which word is the answer each day.
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.
