Weekend Wordle time is here – how have you fared so far? We’d say that this is one that requires a little more thought – the route to the Wordle answer isn’t simple at all, but once you figure out the structure you’ll be right in there.
So we’re here to help – if you’re down to your fifth or sixth answer and don’t want to lose that streak, let us give you the Wordle hints and tips that you need to save yourself from the darkness of a fail in today’s puzzle…
Other Wordle tips
To that end, we’ve got two things to help you not actually need the answer at all – firstly, our world-class Wordle hints should get you there, and then if that’s not enough, then you can use Wordle Solver tools we’ve hand-picked to help.
But if you just want the answer, then no worries. Just scroll on down and get it right here.
Today’s Wordle hint
Today’s Wordle answer isn’t the easiest – it took us until the fourth attempt to get it right. But there are some easy points that you can spot to help you get it.
And now we’re trained in this practice, having spoken to owners of Wordle solver tools, linguistics experts and more… so here are our three hints to get you thinking about solving today’s answer.
- It has two vowels
- It takes the form CONSONANT VOWEL CONSONANT VOWEL CONSONANT
- It begins with F.
Given that most of you will have ruled out the wrong vowels by now, you should be able to use the above to get the basic structure… from there, it’s over to you.
Wordle solver tools
(Image credit: WordFinderX)
Instead of scrolling to the Wordle answer section below, why not try a 5 letter word generator? There are loads of great tools online that can help you learn a bit more about the world of Wordle and how to get the right letters first – how about you check one of those out?
WordFinderX:allows you to put in letters at the start and the end if you know them and, crucially: allows you to enter any letters that don’t fit.
WordTips: same as WordFinder X but with a slightly kinder UI.
The Free Dictionary: lets you use ‘contains’, ‘ends with’ or ‘starts with’ – as well as ‘unscramble’.
TryHardGuides Wordle Solver: great for the mobile, pop in the position of the correct, misplaced and wrong letters, and get recommendations based on popularity.
Check out this useful grid that shows the hottest letter pairings – it can really help focus your mind.
Also, try out the analysis from Project Gutenberg, which analyzed nearly 10,000 texts and found the following insights into starting letters, word clumps and more.
Right, now you can have the Wordle answer for today…
Today’s Wordle Answer #267
We won’t lie, we’re pretty pleased with our performance today – no letters in the wrong place at any times always feels good.
Today’s Wordle answer is FOCUS – another day where we woke up, got straight on Wordle and felt like the game was trying to give us instructions on how to live our lives.
Let’s take a look at how this compares to the last seven days’ answers:
According to Google Trends, today’s word looks like it’ll be significantly easier than any from the last week – certainly not anything like the confusing mess of WATCH on Friday.
That‘s likely partly to do with it being Sunday and fewer people being online first thing to try the game, so we’d expect that number to rise… but it seems like, if you’re struggling today, it’s just an anomaly and you’ll be back on it tomorrow.
How did you do?
So let’s look back – how did you do two days ago? WordleStats checks all the results published to Twitter and finds the common answer numbers, taking a couple of days to crunch the data, so the following stats are for LAPSE – and we’re looking forward to seeing the updates for WATCH on Friday…
We’re surprised that so many people got it in 3 – we’d have thought the -PSE ending would have stumped more. If you did it in under 4, you’re a Wordle champ.
#Wordle 264 2022-03-10208,884 results found on Twitter.9,960 hard mode players.1: 0%2: 🟩🟩 8%3: 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 31%4: 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 34%5: 🟩🟩🟩🟩 19%6: 🟩 7%X: 1%#Wordle264March 11, 2022
Great Wordle alternatives
What about if you fancy a little bit of something else? Check back daily to see our wonderful list of the best Wordle alternatives and see what tickles your fancy.
Like Wordle but find it too easy? Like to read academic journals? Like funny groups off letters?
Then Scholardle is for you. Just the same as Wordle (but with five attempts), players need to try and guess the word with green and yellow letter blocks as an option.
It’s fiendishly hard, but if you’re into a little world of academia perhaps you might find it easier.
We did not.
Heardle
Like Wordle but with music, Heardle gets you short little bursts of music to guess and you’ve got six attempts to do it in.
OK, there aren’t that many similarities to the main game, but you do get the same amount of attempts, it does check against a ‘dictionary’ of songs, you can get a new puzzle daily and it allows you to do the same green-and-yellow posting to Twitter.
Wordle Unlimited
Love a bit of Wordle but annoyed it only lasts one day? Well, why don’t you try Wordle Unlimited, the hugely unofficial game where you can play as many times as you like – and we’ve got all you need to know on how to use and play Wordle Unlimted ready for you.
Nerdle
Such a different game to Wordle, but it gives your brain a different workout. Consider Wordle your long, steady state run and then Nerdle being the HIIT workout you (inexplicably) do next.
You’re asked to enter a sum of 8 numbers or symbols long… and apart from knowing it has to have some numbers and an equals in there, that’s all you get.
It’s a great play – plus there’s an ‘Instant Nerdle’ that shows you one line of semi-correct entries in the wrong place… and it’s up to you to get it. Lovely.