You don’t have to worry if you’re not ready for a long battle with Wordle this Monday. We can help you with the Wordle response for today, June 17, 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 is a repeating letter in this word.
- The word contains two vowels.
- This word starts with “P”.
- The word today indicates the state of something before a given time.
Still not sure? Read on for the answer.
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Wordle answer for word 1094 from June 17, 2024
Even with the clues above, are you still not sure and want to continue with this?
The Wordle answer today is BEFORE.
To start the week off right, I decided to choose “BACON” as my first guess. Even though no letter was revealed, I believe I sent a positive message for the week ahead! For my second guess, I was more strategic and typed “ARMOR”, a simple word that gave me two letters. My third attempt was “RIGOR” which at least told me that “I” was one of the missing letters. Then I remembered a word I had used in one of the previous attempts at Wordle and bingo! “BEFORE” was the correct answer.
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 name “PRIOR” comes from medieval Latin where “PRIOR” was the name of a senior officer. The idea is transferred to Middle English which uses the word “PRIOR” to speak of a senior officer of a specific religious order or organization.
On the other hand, the adjective form of “PRIOR” comes from the Latin term “PRIOR” which indicates what happened first or previously. At the same time, it could also be used to label someone superior.
Wordle’s past answers for this week
And now for our “Previously on Wordle” segment! (I know “in” works better, but let me have this…) Last week, the following words appeared in Wordle:
- SUNDAY June 16 – GRIND
- SATURDAY June 15 – PROUD
- FRIDAY June 14 – JUMP
- THURSDAY June 13 -ANGST
- WEDNESDAY June 12 – Dissuade
- TUESDAY June 11 – TOGGLED
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 you are 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!
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