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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Saturday 20 August 2022?InWordlewe trust! In an extremely volatile year, few little comforts have been as reliable as good old Wordle, the word puzzle game that’s never missed its daily appointment with players all over the English-speaking world. Of course, that doesn’t mean that Wordle is always easy to solve. If you’re having some trouble getting today’s answer, read on below for a few quick clues, or scroll down below the video for a spoiler-filled definition of today’s Wordle word.
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Wordle August 20 hints
Having a bit of trouble arriving at the Wordle answer today? Here are a few clues to help you along:
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Today’s Wordle answer August 20
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
TREAT.
When used as a noun, “treat” means an out-of-the-ordinary occurrence that is pleasant for the recipient and often a surprise or gift. And of course you can treat (verb) someone to a lovely treat (noun). In the verb form the word is a little more versatile though, and it’s not always so nice: medical treatment is usually not nearly so enjoyable as being treated to a day out at the seaside, and treating your laundry with pre-wash formula before sticking it in the machine is a chore at best. Treat can also be used to describe a mode of behaviour, and it’s important to always treat others with kindness, as in the following example: please be kind to other Wordle players and don’t share spoilers for today’s solution until tomorrow. Thank 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’re looking to reduce the number of average guesses it takes you to puzzle out the daily Wordle answer, be sure to have a look at our guide to thebest Wordle starting words. We’ve also got a thorough list ofpast Wordle answersif you’re curious and like very long word lists.
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.
