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Wordle hints and answer (#1292): How to solve the Wednesday January 1 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for January 1? Read our hint or find the answer below!
Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 1? Read our hint or find the answer below!
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This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Wednesday 8th January!
Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?If the five-letter mystery word is giving you trouble, don’t fear for yourWordlevictory streak; in this guide, we’ll either give you the answer or help you find the solution on your own.
Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses? All you have to help you in finding the Wordle answer are the contextual clues you gain from each guess - but often, that’s not enough. Wordle can be tricky, you see, and it’s not unusual to look for a little bit of help if you want to preserve your year-long winstreak.
In this guide we’ll offer up a selection of Wordle hints to help you figure out today’s solution for Wednesday January 1. Scroll down a bit further and we’ll also reveal today’s Wordle answer for 1/1, and a definition of the word if you need it.
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Wordle hints: Clues for today’s Wordle on 1/1
Every day we offer up a number of Wordle hints that you can use to help figure out the solution. So have a read of our clues below and see if you can figure it out before skipping ahead to the answer:
What is the Wordle hint today?
Literally, it’s a part of your body. Figuratively, it can be made of steel.
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
Today’s Wordle word begins with N.
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
Today’s Wordle word ends with E.
How many vowels are in today’s Wordle?
Today’s Wordle word contains 2 vowels.
Are there any double letters in today’s Wordle?
There are 4 unique letters in today’s Wordle word.
What’s a good starting word for today’s Wordle?
If you type in the starting word “sneer”, then four letters will turn yellow.
Still having some trouble finding today’s Wordle solution? To preserve your win streak, scroll down to reveal today’s Wordle answer, and a description of the word’s meaning.
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What is today’s Wordle answer on January 1?
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle for 1/1. The word is…
NERVE.
Congrats if you managed to correctly guess the Wordle answer today!
What does the Wordle answer today mean?
A nerve is a part of your body’s ‘nerve system’; the fibres that send signals to the brain. Your nerves allow you to feel and see things, for example. On top of that, the word nerve is often used to express courage or audacity. Someone with ‘nerves of steel’ isn’t easily scared, whereas an irritating person may ‘get on your nerves’.
How to share your Wordle results without spoilers
Use the built-in Wordle sharing feature to share your results without spoiling the answer!
Wordle has a built-in method of sharing your results in a spoiler-free way, so that those you sent it to don’t see today’s Wordle word itself, only the colours in your grid to show how well you did.
To share your Wordle results, simply complete (or lose) today’s Wordle, and then wait a moment for the statistics panel to appear on your screen. Then tap the “SHARE” button.
On PC this will simply copy the text into your clipboard, so you can then paste the text anywhere you wish, whether it’s a private message or a status update on social media. On iPhone or Android, when you tap the “SHARE” button you’ll have the option either to copy to clipboard, or to share the results directly to another app on your phone (such as WhatsApp or Twitter).
Using the built-in sharing feature of Wordle is a much nicer way of sharing your results than potentially spoiling the answer to those who haven’t yet had the chance to play today’s Wordle themselves. So we highly encourage you to use it!
How to play Wordle
Wordle is wonderfully simple. The aim is to guess the correct five-letter word within six guesses. After each guess, the letters of your chosen word will highlight green if they’re in the correct place, yellow if they’re in the wrong place, or grey if they don’t appear in the word at all.
Using these clues you can start to narrow down the correct word. Head over to theWordlesite to try it for yourself!
How did Wordle begin?
Youcan type in any words you like, but be aware that the actual answer will never be a rude word.
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.