Today's Wordle clue and answer Saturday March 2 for 987

It’s Saturday, so treat yourself to a little extra treat while we work together to determine the Wordle response for today March 2.

For the uninitiated, the goal of Wordle is to find a five-letter word in six guesses every day. The fewer guesses, the better – and if you don’t get it right at all, you’ll end your streak.

This is why training today’s Wordle answer is such a priority because players take pride in continuing their streak. So why gamble on a risky final guess when you can learn a few clues and, failing that, get the definitive answer? This page can help you.

Once you’ve got the hang of today’s word, learn more about Wordle and how the New York Times got interested in games in this interview with NYTimes gaming editor Jonathan Knight. In keeping with the theme of words, we also explained why the NYTimes Mini Crosswords are a reliable joy.

Clues for today’s Wordle answer

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

There are two different vowels in today’s word.

This word has no repeating letters.
Today’s word starts with “U”.
This word can be used to describe an area where many people live, usually referring to the city and the outskirts is called the “Under” version of this word.

Still not sure? Read on for the answer.

Wordle answer for word 987 from March 2, 2024

Even with the clues above, are you still not sure and want to continue with this?

The Wordle answer today is URBAN.

Can we say it was pure luck that we got a word? Yes? Ok, it was by pure chance that I found today’s word “URBAN” before I ran out of attempts. After guessing the “B”, “E” and “A” with “BEACH”, it took a bit of rearranging to finally get today’s word. Not bad.

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Of course, no one should know that you came to this page to solve the problem. Maybe start by making a couple of false assumptions to confuse them, perhaps?

The etymology of today’s Wordle

The current word “URBAN” is said to come in part from the Latin word “URBANUS” meaning “pertaining to a city or urban life”, which is almost exactly the same way we use the modern version today .

Did you know that using the word “URBAN” to describe features of urban life in cities or towns was known to have been used in the 1600s, but did not become popular until the 19th century ? Fascinating!

Wordle’s past answers for this week

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

Friday March 1 (986) – FORTY
Thursday February 29 (985) – PICTURE
Wednesday February 28 (984) – DEVIL
Tuesday February 27 (983) – SENSE
Monday February 26 (982) – OFTEN

If you want 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 your daily Wordle is over, the question is: what are you going to play now?

You can of course try the other word games offered by the New York Times, such as Spelling Bee, Mini Crossword and Letter Boxed. You can also try your luck at Connections, the daily Sudokus and Tiles – a rather additive 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. Meanwhile, Dordle, Quorodly, Octordly and Sedecordle all stick to the standard Wordle, while increasing the number of words you need to find. The challenge lies in how your guesses count for all words. So you need to decide whether you are going to focus on a specific word or try to solve multiple words at the same time. Fortunately, the number of guesses given to you increases as the number of words you have to solve.

If you want to take a break from spelling, try GeoGuessr. Here you will be given an image of somewhere, anywhere, in the world and asked to place a marker on where you think that location is. There is even an Old School RuneScape version.

Hope you enjoyed playing Wordle today!