As the work week comes to an end, how about starting the weekend by solving the Wordle response for today, January 12.
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 three vowels in this word.
- There are no repeating letters in today’s word.
- The middle letter is “U”.
- Pokémon fans have repeatedly traveled through areas named using this word.
Still not sure? Read on for the answer.
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Wordle answer for word 937 from January 12, 2024
Even with the clues above, are you still not sure and want to continue with this?
The Wordle answer today is ITINERARY.
I started my journey to today’s Wordle answer well enough by getting two of the required letters from my seed word “Arise” and then finding the “O” from “Plore”. The fourth letter was then discovered through the use of “Throe”, and then for some crazy reason “Ruote” came to mind before “Route”, even though it was clearly the more obvious choice. ..
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
Itinerary is mainly used to describe a certain path that can be taken during a trip, such as the name of a specific road or a list of stops that you must take. It can also be used figuratively to describe how a task can be complicated via different methods.
Looking at the history of the word, we can see that Middle English – where it might be written “rute” – actually borrowed it from Old French as it derives from “rote”, which could be used for path, road or path.
As I hinted at in the hints section, route is also a word that Pokémon fans will be very familiar with, as many areas between towns in the main series are titled using this word – such as the famous ” Route 1” between the pallets. Town and city of Viridian. Interestingly, route numbering overlapped the games, reaching a total of 230, until the start of Generation 5 where, from then on, the first route in a new region was always numbered one .
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:
- Thursday January 11 (936) – BRIEF
- Wednesday January 10 (935) – JETA
- Tuesday January 9 (934) – LINING
- Monday January 8 (933) – FINAL
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!
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