My wife’s statement (she got it in six, I got it in three): “That one’s bullshit.”

I got it in four. My exact question was "Is that even a real word?".

I call bullshit.

Took me six, even after I made the mistake of looking at this thread so I had the hint it was an acronym and not a real word.

I got it in 3. You guys need better opening words.

I got it on the 5th word. They cheated--it's not a real word, it's an acronym.

I almost never get anything on the second word because I use the first 2 as my test words: AUDIO and PESTY. I do often get it correct on the 3rd word, though.

flashguy

It’s been in use longer than SCUBA. If scuba is considered a word, then today’s wordle is probably a word as well.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
It’s been in use longer than SCUBA. If scuba is considered a word, then today’s wordle is probably a word as well.

IMO, if you capitalize it (upper case) it's an acronym, not a word. Radar and scuba have gone through the transition, but I was not aware that this "word" had.

flashguy

It’s definitely made the transition from uppercase.

I hate to link this article, but it’s from almost 20 years ago:

New York Times - click for spoiler on word.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Today's is not a word, is it?

The wife was not happy about it, and still insists it is NOT a word.

Since it’s now yesterday’s word:

I used SAUNA as my third word thinking SNAFU wasn’t a word. It still seems different from radar, scuba, laser, taser, etc. If someone were to ask me what any of those words meant, I’d give an explanation that didn’t involve the acronym itself. If someone asked me what a snafu was as, then I’d tell them flat out situation normal all fucked up.

Yeah, that SNAFU word was odd and lately, some of their words seem to be outside of the norm.

They say no Spanish but GUANO was the correct word. Before that, it took UMAMI.

They seem to massage what's an acceptable word in other languages.

Wordle recently had the first word I've never seen in life, LOCUS.

Guano and locus both stumped my wife. Guano has been used in English for hundreds of years. I read about it in several books, but can’t remember which. Maybe a Hardy Boys or Swiss Family Robinson. I remembered locus as a math term having to do with parabolas. Probably because I sub for Algebra, Algebra II, Geometry and Trigonometry quite a bit.

There was one with in the last couple weeks that I got just by putting letters in as I had no clue what the word meant.

What trips me up is when I’m thinking of the letter combinations and miss the pronunciation. For example, I’m sitting there thinking ratio, rhyming with patio, isn’t a word.

got LOCUS in 4. after first trying FOCUS as guess 3.

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Originally posted by kho:
got LOCUS in 4. after first trying FOCUS as guess 3.

Same here. I always considered it a Latin word, which was why I hesitated to use it.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Wordle recently had the first word I've never seen in life, LOCUS.

Obviously, your high school did not offer geometry.

flashguy

Got it in UNDER five

Has it been mentioned that Quordle added a new version of their game called Sequence. You can only play one quadrant at a time. It’s in the drop down up top.

Today's word almost threw me. Took all 6 tries.

Same here, 6 tries.
More commonly known as a brand name, not the word.