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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Friday 9 December 2022?I can’t be the only one feeling a little worse for wear the day after the work Christmas party right now, surely? I’m sure a lot of you are in the same boat. It’s OK though,Wordleis such a gentle game, I’m sure you’ll manage to power through and do today’s puzzle.
But it’s understandable if you need a little help on this one. Don’t worry, we’ll get through it together. Below we’ve put together some hints to help you figure it out; or, if you just want to know the answer, scroll down below the video to see the solution in full.
Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 26th December!
Wordle December 9 hints
Want a few hints to help with the Wordle answer today? Here’s some clues to get you started:
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Wordle answer today December 9
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
BRAID.
To braid a material is to take three or more strands of it and interlace them to form an attractive woven pattern. This can be done with hair, in which case the resulting hairstyle is also called a braid; or with silk, cotton, or other fabrics, in which case the braid is often used as a decorative edge for a garment or other textile.
Braidis also the name of a critically acclaimed indie puzzle platformer from the late 2000s, but I’m a Tomb Raider fan, so that was the gaming-themed clue you got. Apologies to all the Braid fans out there! And now that you know the answer, please be kind and don’t spoil the puzzle for other players!
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.
