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Today’s Wordle puzzle doesn’t have terribly rare letters, as determined by our list ranking the most-used letters in the alphabet. The first letter in today’s answer is the least used of the five letters, and even it isn’t too far down on the list. So you might have no problems today, but 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 starts with the letter P.
Wordle hint No. 4: Ending
Today’s Wordle answer ends with a vowel.
Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning
Today’s Wordle answer describes written or spoken language, but not poetry.
TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER
Today’s Wordle answer is PROSE.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer
Yesterday’s Wordle answer, Jan. 16, No. 1,307, was FLINT.
Recent Wordle answers
Jan. 12, No. 1,303: TOTAL
Jan. 13, No. 1,304; CLOAK
Jan. 14, No. 1,305: FANCY
Jan. 15, No. 1,306: KNACK
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.