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Hints and the answer to Wordle #552
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Friday 23 December 2022?Things are really kicking off in Santa’s workshop. Christmas Day is almost upon us, but the preparations still aren’t complete! Toys need wrapping, reindeers need feeding, and the elves are all off in a corner doingWordle. Yes, even the magical denizens of the North Pole whip their phones out every morning to do a quick brainteaser, but I’ve heard they’re really struggling with the Wordle answer today. If you’re also finding today’s Wordle hard, then you’re in the right place.
Below, you’ll find three helpful hints that you can use to solve the Wordle answer today. If you’re just here for the solution, simply scroll a little further down to find the answer itself.
Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th December!
Wordle December 23 hints
The Wordle answer today is particularly tough, which isn’t very festive. If you want to eat mince pies and drink hot chocolate, but the stress of losing your Wordle streak is making your tummy go funny, then we’re here to help. Below, you’ll find three clues that should hopefully help you find the Wordle answer today:
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Wordle answer today December 23
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
AORTA.
The aorta is an artery that pumps oxygenated blood around your body, so give it a big round of applause for keeping us alive. Thanks, aorta. You’re a star. Apparently, the aorta is shaped like a cane, so maybe this is also a festive pick? The diagrams sure do look like a meaty candy cane.
If you don’t want someone to rip out your meaty candy cane, then make sure to keep the Wordle answer today a secret. A new Wordle will appear at midnight, at which point you can scream the word “aorta” as loud as possible. Go on, we dare you.
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.
