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Today’s Wordle puzzle has a repeated letter, but it’s a common one. Find out where that goes, and you’re on your way to solving it. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on.
Today’s Wordle hints
Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now.
Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats
Today’s Wordle answer has one repeated letter.
Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels
There is one vowel in today’s Wordle answer, but it’s the repeated letter, so you’ll see it twice.
Wordle hint No. 3: First letter
Today’s Wordle answer begins with the letter A.
Wordle hint No. 4: First meaning
Today’s Wordle answer can refer to a feeling or awareness of danger.
Wordle hint No. 5: Another meaning
Today’s Wordle answer can refer to setting a clock to alert you at a certain time.
TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER
Today’s Wordle answer is ALARM.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer
Yesterday’s Wordle answer, May 20,No. 1431 was BORNE.
Recent Wordle answers
May 16, No. 1427: FIFTH
May 17, No. 1428: GROWN
May 18, No. 1429: LIVID
May 19, No. 1430: PITCH
Will Wordle run out of words?
When Wordle began, creator Josh Wardle used a list of five-letter words he’d shared with his partner, picking only the words they recognized. While that’s more than 2,000 words, more than half of them have already been used.
Wordle editor Tracy Bennett admitted that the game will eventually have to come to grips with the fact that the word list is not eternal.
«One possibility is that we could recycle old words at some point, like when we get close to the end,» Bennett told a Wordle player on TikTok.
She also said the editors might throw all the words back in and reuse them, or allow plurals, or past tense, something that’s not done now.
Bennett hasn’t commented on it, but it seems possible Wordle could expand to six-letter words, too. Options abound.
