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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Wednesday 27 July 2022?Another day, anotherWordleto solve. Perhaps even more astounding than Wordle’s incredible success is the fact that it has managed to hold the attention of its playerbase for so long. It’s just far too easy for guessing today’s five-letter word to become a part of your daily routine. Which is why we’re all here, of course.
Below we’ll give you a few hints and tips that will help you solve today’s Wordle answer. Further below we’ll reveal the solution itself, along with a definition for the word if you need it.
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Wordle July 27 hints
If you’re struggling to pick out the correct five-letter word among the hundreds or thousands of possible words, then never fear. Take a look at the below hints which may lead you to the Wordle answer for today:
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Today’s Wordle answer July 27
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
MOTTO.
A motto is typically a short phrase that is used to sum up the central ideals or principles of an organisation, team, institute, or similar. For example, Tesco’s motto is “every little helps!”, while the motto for the Royal Air Force is “Per Ardua Ad Astra”, which translated from Latin means “Through adversity to the stars”. There you go, there’s your obscure fact for the day.
As always, this is the part where we remind you not to go spreading about information on today’s Wordle answer to players who haven’t yet had a chance to play the game for themselves. This important rule can be summed up with the handy, easy to remember motto: don’t be a dick.
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 want to become a better Wordle player, there are some things you can do. First off, consult ourbest Wordle starting wordsguide to give yourself the best chance of an early victory. Another handy resource is our archive ofpast Wordle answers, so you can see which words have been chosen in the past and therefore can’t be chosen again as the answer.
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.
