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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Tuesday 9 August 2022?Wordleboomed in popularity in January, but it feels like it has been around forever. We could sit here and ask “What is time?”, leading to a group existential crisis, or we could just ponder today’s Wordle answer instead. Today’s Wordle answer is a tough one, but our three clues should nudge you in the right direction.
In this guide, we’ll list three hints that you can use to solve the Wordle answer today. If you’ve got a killer Wordle streak but don’t have time sit down and actually figure out the solution, you can skip down to the bottom of this page to find the answer itself.
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Wordle August 9 hints
Today’s Wordle answer uses some sneaky tricks that might lead to some wasted guesses. Fortunately, our three clues for the Wordle answer today will hopefully take the pressure off and make it much easier to find the solution:
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Today’s Wordle answer August 9
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
PATTY.
A patty is the round burger that you place between the bread in a… well, in a burger. Of course, Spongebob works as a burger flipper at the Krusty Krab, where he serves Krappy Patties to other sea creatures. The idea of the various inhabitants of Bikini Bottom munching on a meaty burger is a very cursed image, but fortunately Spongebob creator Steve Hillenburghas previously confirmedthat they do not contain meat.
Now that you know today’s Wordle answer, make sure to keep it to yourself until tomorrow to avoid spoiling the answer for others. When the clock strikes 12 and a new Wordle emerges like a werewolf under a full moon, you can howl the word “patty” at the top of your lungs.
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’s it for the Wordle answer today, but check back tomorrow for another answer. In the meantime, take a look at our list of thebest Wordle starting wordsto get some puzzling practice. If you want to avoid wasting guesses, check out our list ofpast Wordle answers. Words only appear as the Wordle answer once, so familiarising yourself with previous solutions might save you a vital guess 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.
