Today’s Wordle clue and answer Tuesday May 28 for 1074

Whether you’re looking for a time to relax or a challenge to keep things moving, we can help you with the Wordle response for today, May 28, 2024.

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 two vowels.
• It starts with “M”.
• Today’s word appears in the title of the latest Godzilla movie.

Still not sure? Read on for the answer.

Wordle answer for word 1074 from May 28, 2024

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

The Wordle answer today is LESS.

Solving this riddle was quite fun, especially when I saw the answer, because “LESS” is a word I’ve been using constantly over the past few months – check the last clue to find out why! But before achieving my little victory, discovering the word was not easy. I started the game with another of the best starting words, “CARES”. Even though I discovered the last letter, it didn’t really help me. My second guess was “MEATS” while the third was “MINING”. At this point, I had enough to take a chance and choose “LESS”.

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

“MINUS” has been part of the English vocabulary for a long time. The earliest record of the use of the word “MINUS” dates back to the Middle English period which began in the early 12th century and lasted until the end of the 15th century. The word probably comes from the Latin “LESS” which means less.

“MINUS” is also the name of the mathematical sign, which may originate from the medieval North Sea trading tradition of using the Latin words “MORE” and “MINUS” to indicate a weight or measure.

Wordle’s past answers for this week

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

• MONDAY May 27 – SKIER
• SUNDAY May 26 – BEVEL
• SATURDAY May 25 -TITAN

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!