Today’s Wordle clue and answer, Wednesday October 9, for 1208

Today’s Wordle is tricky, but we’ve got your back! Here’s how to access the Wordle response for today, October 9, 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:

• Today’s word contains a vowel.
• There is a repeating letter in this word.
• This word starts with “M”.
• This person sends you letters in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Still not sure? Read on for the answer.

Wordle answer for word 1208 from October 9, 2024

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

The Wordle answer today is MOM.

Today’s Wordle was pretty close for me. I got off to a painfully slow start with “LEAFS”, “RIGOR”, “OPTED” and “CHOCK”, which always left me with nothing but a sad yellow letter. From there, I tried “JUMBO,” which ultimately led me to “MOMMY” at my last guess.

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

As you might expect, “mom” is just a version of “mom” with a “y” added. “Maman” itself is a version of “mama,” which is a variation of “mama.” Interestingly enough, Wiktionary simply attributes “mommy” to baby talk…cute!

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:

• Tuesday October 8 – JOINT
• Monday October 7 – FLOUR

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 you’re given increases as the number of words you need to solve increases.

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!