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Are you stuck on today’s Wordle brainteaser? You have come to the right place. Newsweek has helpful hints for you to continue your winning streak.
The puzzle has skyrocketed in popularity since its release to the public in October 2021. Three months later, in January 2022, The New York Times purchased the game for a seven-figure sum. Nowadays, it is the newspaper’s most popular game, while Connections—another of the publication’s word-based games—is behind it in second.
Josh Wardle created Wordle during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to entertain himself and his partner. In an interview with Newsweek in 2022, the engineer said that, while he “did create Wordle,” he is “not very good at it.”
“[My partner] and I play it on the couch together each morning,” Wardle continued. “She will consistently get it in three goes, which is way, way better than I can ever hope to achieve. I normally need at least 4 or 5 attempts.”

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The game follows a simple formula: Players must guess the daily five-letter word after six attempts through a process of elimination. Green tiles reveal the letter is in the correct and exact place; yellow tiles reveal the letter is in the word, though not in the right spot; and gray tiles reveal the letter is not in the word at all.
During his Newsweek interview, Wardle said, “There is a reason that every word is five letters long and that you are allowed six attempts to guess it.” He added: “I figured out that five letters and six tries was the ideal sweet spot. It’s just limited enough to feel challenging and to make you think, but most of the time people still manage to solve it. So, you feel a real sense of real accomplishment.”
Newsweek‘s hints for today’s Wordle are:
Hint #1: It starts with the letter “S.”
Hint #2: It can be a noun or a verb.
Hint #3: There are no repeated letters.
Hint #4: The answer rhymes with “floor.”
Hint #5: It is one syllable.
‘Wordle’ #1,333, Answer for Tuesday, February 11
The answer to today’s Wordle is “Score.”
According to Merriam-Webster, as a noun, the word is defined as “a group of 20 things—often used in combination with a cardinal number,” “a line (such as a scratch or incision) made with or as if with a sharp instrument,” “the copy of a musical composition in written or printed notation,” “the stark inescapable facts of a situation,” and more.
As a verb, the term could mean, ” to keep a record or account of by or as if by notches on a tally: record” or “to mark with lines, grooves, scratches, or notches,” for example.
Congratulations if you conquered today’s game, but don’t be upset if you didn’t get it this time around. Wordle is released at midnight in your local time zone, which means you will get another chance to play on Wednesday.
Feeling impatient before the next Wordle drops? Try these other popular word games, like Wordscapes and Spellspire, while you count down the hours.
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Megan Cartwright is Newsweek’s Deputy Entertainment Editor, based in London, U.K. Her focus is on U.S. pop culture and entertainment news stories. Megan joined Newsweek in 2022 from New York where she was the Senior Editor for In Touch, Life & Style and Closer magazines and had previously interned at MTV, Cosmopolitan and InStyle. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University. Languages: English.
You can get in touch with Megan by emailing m.**********@******ek.com.
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