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Today’s Wordle puzzle is exceptionally tough, I thought. It’s a word I don’t ever use, and it has some repeated letters and unusual letter placement. If there’s any day when you shouldn’t feel at all bad about needing some hints, today is that day. 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 two separate repeated letters.
Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels
Today’s Wordle answer has one vowel that is repeated, so you will see it twice, plus one sometimes vowel.
Wordle hint No. 3: First letter
Today’s Wordle answer begins with A.
Wordle hint No. 4: Ending
Today’s Wordle answer ends with a sometimes vowel.
Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning
Today’s Wordle answer can refer to testing metal or ore to determine its ingredients and quality.
TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER
Today’s Wordle answer is ASSAY.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer
Yesterday’s Wordle answer, July 29, No. 1501 was OMEGA.
Recent Wordle answers
July 25, No. 1497: GOFER
July 26: No. 1498: HAUNT
July 27, No. 1499: WHOLE
July 28, No. 1500: SAVVY
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.
