The solution to today’s Wordle puzzle is “fifty.” Because the word is in common usage, it’s perfectly understandable if you’ve never questioned its origins. We haven’t, until today, which is one of the reasons why we still enjoy Wordle — it’s a great springboard for learning new words, and learning more about the ones we already know. According to Etymonline, “fifty” is from Old English “fiftig” of the same meaning, which is a combination of two words — “fif,” meaning five (itself from Proto-Indo-European root “penkwe-“) and “tig,” which means a group of ten.
For a word that’s so commonplace, it’s a tad surprising that it took us five guesses to figure it out. We went with “ounce” as a starting guess, and it was a particularly unlucky start — there were 382 possible answers left. After trying “plaid” next, that number reduced to 54, and “shirk” brought it down further to seven. At this point, we had only turned one tile yellow and none green, but “jiffy” was the guess that changed things. It turned three more tiles green and left only one possible answer. We hope you finish the puzzle quicker than we did, and here are other games like Wordle if you’d like to prolong the fun.
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