Today’s Wordle Clue and Answer Thursday July 18 for 1125

The weekend is coming and solving a word puzzle may seem too overwhelming. Don’t worry, because we can help you with the Wordle Answer for Today, July 18, 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.
• This word contains only one vowel.
• The word begins with “N”.
• Today’s word is the adverbial form of a noun used to designate aficionados of specific themes.

Still not sure? Read the answer below.

Wordle answer for word 1125 on July 18, 2024

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

The Wordle answer today is NERDY.

To keep with tradition and find the strength to make it to the weekend, I started playing with “BACON.” Aside from indicating the presence of an “N” in the word, it didn’t help much. I followed up with “NEEDY,” which got me closer to the final answer. After a few completely failed attempts, I finally came up with “NERDY.”

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 that 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

To understand the etymology of today’s word, we need to step back a bit and look up the word “NERD.” It’s a slang term that likely comes from the word “NURT,” a corruption of the word “NUT,” which referred to a stupid person in the 1940s. A little further back, we find the term “NURD,” which represents a person lacking social skills.

Famous writer Dr. Seuss, in his 1950s book “If I Ran a Zoo,” used the word “NERD,” which may have helped popularize the term.

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:

• WEDNESDAY July 17 – ENOUGH
• TUESDAY July 16 – LURE
• MONDAY July 15 – FADE OUT
• SUNDAY July 14 – VIDEO
• SATURDAY July 13 – PROMOTE

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 put their own spin on 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 towards 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 depending 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!