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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Monday 8 August 2022?Wordlehas become so popular over the past year, that I imagine even a zombie apocalpyse couldn’t stop us from grabbing our phones in the morning for a quick brainteaser. If you’ve managed to avoid becoming a zombie and are more interested in brainteasers than simply eating brains, Wordle is the perfect game. However, it isn’t always easy, and sometimes finding the Wordle answer can leave you more stumped thantwo zombies trying to decide what to eat for dinner.
Below, we’ll provide three hints for today’s Wordle answer to help you find the solution. If you’d rather just skip the puzzle and go straight to the answer, you can find it along with a definition a little further down.
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Wordle August 8 hints
Like surviving the apocalypse, finding the Wordle answer today isn’t impossible. You just need a few hints that point you in the right direction, like a zombie survival guide that conveniently tells everyone to aim for the head. Below, you’ll find three clues for today’s Wordle answer:
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Today’s Wordle answer August 8
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
UNFIT.
Unfit describes those who are out of shape due to a lack of exercise, making it the perfect word to describe myself after working from home for a year. It can also point to something that generally doesn’t meet the standards required of it to function. A mug with a hole in the side would be unfit to hold my morning cup of tea, for example.
Now that you know today’s Wordle answer, be careful not to blurt it out around others. Everyone has their own Wordle routine, and it’d be unfair to spoil the answer before your friends and family get to play. You never know who you might need to rely on in a zombie apocalypse, so it’s best to keep everyone on your side for now.
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.
That wraps up the Wordle answer today, but check out our guide on thebest Wordle starting wordsif you want to keep practicing. Since Wordle answers aren’t repeated, make sure to also take a look at our list ofpast Wordle answersso that you can learn which words to avoid guessing in the future.
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.
