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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word

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A close-up of part of a Wordle grid. The letters spell “what is the answer”.

Looking for the Wordle answer for Saturday 10 September 2022?Wordlehas a rich history of giving its players some startlingly variable puzzles every day. Some days, Wordle is easy. Other times, that pesky five-letter word completely eludes you until your guesses are up. But since no one wants to start their weekend with a failure, below we’ll walk you through today’s Wordle answer, and a few hints to help you get there yourself.

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Wordle September 10 hints

If you’re finding today’s Wordle to be a little bit of an enigma, don’t despair. Here are three handy hints to help you arrive at the Wordle answer today:

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Today’s Wordle answer September 10

It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…

LOFTY.

Lofty has several rather disparate meanings. Most commonly, it’s used to describe a wide open and tall room or space - such as a loft, surprise surprise. But it can also be used to describe a haughty, cold, supercilious manner in a person. And if you’re using it in the context of textiles, “lofty” can be used to refer to a thick and resilient wool or other fabric. It’s always interesting when one word has such different meanings in different contexts.

Anyway, whether you managed to meet the lofty target of beating today’s Wordle, or you fell just short of the mark, be sure to keep the news of today’s Wordle answer a secret, and not spill the beans to anyone who hasn’t yet had the chance to play the puzzle for themselves.

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.