Today’s Wordle Clue and Answer Friday July 5th for 1112

The weekend is upon us and if you’re looking to spend some time to make it arrive faster, we can help you with the Wordle Answer for Today, July 5, 2024.

For the uninitiated, the goal of Wordle is to guess a daily five-letter word in six tries. The fewer guesses you make, the better, and if you fail to guess it, you end your streak.

It is for this last reason that physical exercise Today’s Wordle Answer is a top priority, as players pride themselves on maintaining their winning streak. So why risk a risky final guess when you can learn a few clues and, failing that, get the definitive answer? This page can help.

Once you have today’s word, learn more about Wordle and how The New York Times got interested in games in this interview with Jonathan Knight, head of games for the NYTimes. In keeping with the word theme, we also talked about why the NYTimes Mini Crossword is a reliable joy.

Clues for today’s Wordle answer

Instead of jumping straight to the answer, you may just need a few clues to help you cross the line:

• There are no repeated letters in this word.
• Today’s word contains a vowel.
• This word begins with “C”.
• This word forms the name, alongside “CANDY”, of a famous puzzle game made by the King studio, in which you combine different types of candies.

Still not sure? Read the answer below.

Wordle answer for word 1112 on July 5, 2024

Even with the above clues, are you still not sure and want to keep going?

The Wordle answer today is CRUSH.

Maybe it’s because today is Friday but I’m running out of energy. It took me every guess I could think of to find the answer. Since it’s a good day, I started playing today’s Wordle with the word “LAUGH” which gave me two letters in their exact place. Awesome! Now, do you have any idea how many 5-letter words in English have “U” and “H” in the same place? I had to go through “YOUTH”, “TOUGH”, “FLUSH” and “BRUSH” to finally find the answer.

Now you have the answer, don’t reveal it to others! Remember that you can share your results without spoilers in the form of a grid.

Of course, no one needs to know you came to this page to know that. Maybe you can start by making a couple of false assumptions to throw them off track, perhaps?

The etymology of today’s Wordle

The origin of the word “CRUSH” dates back to Middle English, where the term “CRUSCHEN” appears to indicate the act of breaking something. This term comes from the Old French “CROISSIR”, which derives from the Latin term “CRUSCIO”.

If you’re used to crushing your opponents (or being crushed by them) in online matches, you should know that the use of the word in this sense is fairly recent, initially appearing in the 16th century.

Past Wordle Answers for this week

And now, our “Previously on Wordle” segment! (I know “in” works better, but let me give you this…) Last week, the following words have appeared in Wordle so far:

• THURSDAY July 4 – BEGINNING
• WEDNESDAY July 3 – THIGH
• TUESDAY July 2 – INLAY
• MONDAY July 1st – ADAGE
• SUNDAY June 30 – BOYFRIEND

If you’d like to know all the words that have graced Wordle in the past, check out our archive of past Wordle answers.

What to play after Wordle

Once you’ve completed your daily Wordle, the question is: what will you play next?

You can, of course, try the other word games offered by the New York Times, like Spelling Bee, Mini Crossword, and Letter Boxed. You can also try Connections, Daily Sudoku, and Tiles, a rather addictive pattern-matching game.

There are also a range of games that have tweaked the Wordle formula. Squaredle challenges you to find a series of words by connecting letters in a four-by-four grid. Dordle, Quorodly, Octordly, and Sedecordle, meanwhile, all stick to the standard Wordle, while increasing the number of words to find. The challenge lies in how your guesses count toward all the words, so you have to decide whether you’re going to focus on a specific word or try to solve multiple words at once. Thankfully, the number of guesses you’re offered increases based on the number of words you have to solve.

If you want a break from spelling, try GeoGuessr. Here, you’ll be given a picture of a location, anywhere, in the world, and you’ll have to place a marker where you think that location is. There’s even an Old School RuneScape version.

Hope you enjoyed playing Wordle today!