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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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If you’re having trouble arriving at today’s Wordle answer, we’ve put together a few clues below to help you out. Or, if you just want the full answer and its defintion right away, scroll down below the video.
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Wordle July 30 hints
Need some help coming up with the Wordle answer today? Here’s a few clues to get you thinking along the right lines:
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Today’s Wordle answer July 30
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
BLUFF.
A bluff is an attempt at deception, to convince someone of the truth of something that’s not in fact the case. Fortunately, in modern usage it’s usually only used in the context of games, so it should be all in good fun — although it gets a bit more serious if you’ve gone all in on a game of poker against an opponent who can bluff with the best of them. Alternatively, and through a complete fluke of random etymological evolution, “bluff” can also refer to a cliffside. And now that you know, be sure to keep the answer to yourself until Wordle resets with a new puzzle tomorrow!
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 serious about reclaiming that lost Wordle streak, be sure to check out our guide to thebest Wordle starting words. We also keep a list of all thepast Wordle answersupdated daily, so you can quickly reviwer every answer in the whole history of this casual puzzle phenomenon.
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.
