Whether you’re relaxing with a cup of tea or trying to wake up in the morning, we’re here to help by showing you the Wordle response for today, January 23.
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 repeating letters in this word, they are the fourth and fifth letters.
- This word contains a vowel (it is not the letter that is repeated).
- Today’s word starts with “S”.
- This word can be used to describe something that doesn’t move at all or a static image.
Still not sure? Read on for the answer.
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Wordle answer for word 948 from January 23, 2024
Even with the clues above, are you still not sure and want to continue with this?
The Wordle answer today is ALWAYS.
I’m not entirely sure of my thought process today, I started by guessing “MANGA” which got me nowhere. Somehow this evolved into guessing “TOILS”, which gave me four of the five letters I needed and by sheer luck (I hadn’t had a cup of tea yet , don’t judge me), I managed to get today’s word “ALWAYS”. during the last attempt.
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
The Old English for “STILL” is “STILLE” which means “quiet”. Additionally, the Middle English “STILLE” means “still.”
What’s interesting to me is how many different uses there are for “STILL”, but how they all come back to one simple idea: being stationary and not moving. It is often used in photography as another way of referring to an image. After all, spending all day saying a picture can seem a bit repetitive.
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:
- Monday January 22 (947) – TWIST
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.
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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!
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