Today’s Wordle clue and answer Sunday February 25 for 981

Another week has just ended, but before it ends for good, make sure to fix the problem. Wordle response for today, February 25.

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 no repeating letters in this word.
• This word has a vowel.
• The last letter is “H”.
• This word is both a family name and a name designating a metallurgist profession.

Still not sure? Read on for the answer.

Wordle answer for word 981 from February 25, 2024

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

The Wordle answer today is BLACK-SMITH.

I threw out some weird guesses for today’s Wordle. (Aside from “Arise”, because I always use that.) “Boils” was an attempt to expand my list of backup words, but “Smick” really came out of nowhere when I was just throwing out letters in Wordle… Luckily this turned into this was exactly what I needed to arrive at today’s answer.

Now you have the answer, don’t spoil it for others! Don’t forget that you can share your spoiler-free results in the form of a grid.

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

Looking at the etymology of “Smith”, you will see that its modern spelling was already present in Old Saxon and Old Frisian. However, in Old English, the word for “blacksmith” or “one who works metal” was “Smið”. This word was also used to designate a craftsman of any profession in certain texts.

Wordle’s Past Answers for Last 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:

• Saturday February 24 (980) – PIPER
• Friday February 23 (979) – APART
• Thursday February 22 (978) – HEAVY
• Wednesday February 21 (977) – BUILD
• Tuesday February 20 (976) – MATCH
• Monday February 19 (975) – PRICE

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!