Today’s Wordle Answer #433 – August 26, 2022 Solution And Hints

The answer to today’s Wordle (#433 – August 26, 2022) is the word irony. The solution describes an event that seems deliberately at odds with one’s expectations and may be amusing as a result. For example, if someone developed high blood pressure because they were often anxious or paranoid about falling sick, that would be ironic. It’s also ironic that computers break down so often when they’re supposed to save people time.

There’s a lot of debate about the correctness of the use of irony in casual contexts, as the word is increasingly used to mean “coincidence” instead of a disparity between expectation and reality. Merriam-Webster says this so-called misuse isn’t new though, and that historical records show that irony and ironic have been used incorrectly for at least 100 years.

To prove it, the dictionary website points to a 1939 quote from American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald: “It is an ironic thought that the last picture job I took — against my better judgment — yielded me five thousand dollars five hundred and cost over four thousand in medical attention.” There isn’t true irony in that event, but the folks at Merriam-Webster said maybe we all just have to agree that word meanings evolve and that’s okay.