Today’s Wordle tip and answer for Monday April 22 for 1038

It’s a brand new week, which means more chances to start a streak! With this in mind, let’s see Wordle response for today, April 22.

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 two different vowels in this word, they do not repeat.
• This word has no repeating letters.
• The word starts with “L”.
• Today’s Word is the name for equipment that creates an intense beam of coherent monochromatic light used in drilling and cutting, alignment and much more.

Still not sure? Read on for the answer.

Wordle answer for word 1038 from April 22, 2024

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

The Wordle answer today is LASER.

After guessing four of the five letters with “LEARN”, it only took a few more attempts and rearranging them to get today’s word “LASER” on my fourth attempt. You could say I was LASER focused today. Yes. Anybody? Oh, that was funny!

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

What’s interesting about the word “LASER” today is that it’s not as old as many of the other words we’ve seen pop up in Wordle answers in the past. In fact, it is said to have been created and first used in its modern form sometime between the late 1950s and early 1960s.

However, a word that is spelled similarly and sounds the same (also “LASER”) is believed to have been used to refer to free, unoccupied time in the 1300s.

Wordle’s past answers for this week

And now, our “Previously on Wordle” segment! (I know “in” works better, but let me have this…) Yesterday we saw this extremely happy Wordle response pop up:

• Sunday April 21 (10:37 a.m.) – PRETTY

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!