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Today’s Wordle puzzle was a tough one. It’s not an especially common word, and the letter placement really threw me off. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on.
Today’s Wordle hints
Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now.
Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats
Today’s Wordle answer has no repeated letters.
Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels
There are two vowels in today’s Wordle answer.
Wordle hint No. 3: Start letter
Today’s Wordle answer begins with a vowel.
Wordle hint No. 4: Start of the alphabet
Today’s Wordle answer begins with A.
Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning
Today’s Wordle answer can refer to a pale gray color.
TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER
Today’s Wordle answer is ASHEN.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer
Yesterday’s Wordle answer, April 14, No. 1395 was CREST.
Recent Wordle answers
April 10, No. 1391: TURBO
April 11, No. 1392: ARROW
April 12, No. 1393: NURSE
April 13, No. 1394: LAUGH
Will Wordle run out of words?
When Wordle began, creator Josh Wardle used a list of five-letter words he’d shared with his partner, picking only the words they recognized. While that’s more than 2,000 words, more than half of them have already been used.
Wordle editor Tracy Bennett admitted that the game will eventually have to come to grips with the fact that the word list is not eternal.
“One possibility is that we could recycle old words at some point, like when we get close to the end,” Bennett told a Wordle player on TikTok.
She also said the editors might throw all the words back in and reuse them, or allow plurals, or past tense, something that’s not done now.
Bennett hasn’t commented on it, but it seems possible Wordle could expand to six-letter words, too. Options abound.
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