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Wordle hint and answer (#599): How to solve the Wednesday February 8 Wordle todayStuck on the Wordle word for Feb 8? Read our hint or find the answer below!
Stuck on the Wordle word for Feb 8? Read our hint or find the answer below!
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Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordletasks you with guessing a five-letter word in just six tries. It doesn’t sound so hard, but it continues to be a superb little challenge each and every day. Wordle is perfect for quiet moments, the little five minute gaps you get during your day, but it can also be a brutal brainteaser that leaves you stumped. If you’re struggling today, that’s where we come in.
In this guide, you’ll find three Wordle hints that you can use to solve the Wordle answer today. If you’re close to failing and just need to see the answer, simply scroll past the video to find it and a definition.
Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th December!
Wordle hint: Clues for the Feb 8 Wordle word today
Before we reveal the Wordle answer for today, why not see if you can figure out the solution with the help of our handy hints below:
Our first Wordle hint today is:
Today’s Wordle word begins with an “F”.
Our second Wordle hint today is:
It has two vowels.
Our third Wordle hint today is:
If you enter the word “LILAC”, four letters will turn yellow.
Still having some trouble finding today’s Wordle solution? To preserve your win streak, scroll down to reveal today’s Wordle answer, and a description of the word’s meaning.
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What is today’s Wordle answer on Feb 8?
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
FLAIL.
Like “APPLE” yesterday, “FLAIL” was a tough word. The double consonant caught us off guard once again, proving that it really is one of the nastiest tricks in Wordle’s playbook. Will tomorrow bring another double consonant? I sure hope not.
What does the Wordle answer today mean?
If you don’t want an angry mob chasing you down with flails, then we’d recommend keeping the Wordle answer today a secret. Keep quiet until tomorrow, when a new Wordle puzzle will come along.
How to share your Wordle results without spoilers
Use the built-in Wordle sharing feature to share your results without spoiling the answer!
Wordle has a built-in method of sharing your results in a spoiler-free way, so that those you sent it to don’t see today’s Wordle word itself, only the colours in your grid to show how well you did.
To share your Wordle results, simply complete (or lose) today’s Wordle, and then wait a moment for the statistics panel to appear on your screen. Then tap the “SHARE” button.
On PC this will simply copy the text into your clipboard, so you can then paste the text anywhere you wish, whether it’s a private message or a status update on social media. On iPhone or Android, when you tap the “SHARE” button you’ll have the option either to copy to clipboard, or to share the results directly to another app on your phone (such as WhatsApp or Twitter).
Using the built-in sharing feature of Wordle is a much nicer way of sharing your results than potentially spoiling the answer to those who haven’t yet had the chance to play today’s Wordle themselves. So we highly encourage you to use it!
How to play Wordle
Wordle is wonderfully simple. The aim is to guess the correct five-letter word within six guesses. After each guess, the letters of your chosen word will highlight green if they’re in the correct place, yellow if they’re in the wrong place, or grey if they don’t appear in the word at all.
Using these clues you can start to narrow down the correct word. Head over to theWordlesite to try it for yourself!
How did Wordle begin?
Are any Wordle words not allowed?
Youcan type in any words you like, but be aware that the actual answer will never be a rude word.
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.
