We are gearing up for the end of the working week, but we are not dropping Wordle.
We asked the artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT to scour the internet for the best Wordle strategies. It recommended picking a starting word that has a mix of vowels “like A, E and consonants like R, T, S.”
“This helps maximize your chances of identifying letters early,” ChatGPT says.
Starting words such as “crate” or “slate,” allow players to “maximize their initial information.” Then, you need to start looking for patterns in words and also common letter combinations and word structures in English such as “TH,” “CH” and “ST.”
You should also keep an eye on letter frequency because some letters appear more often in English words than others such as E, A, R, I, O, T, N and S. But definitely use more vowels in your early guesses because they can reveal vowel placements and help narrow down the correct answer.
How to Play ‘Wordle’
Players must identify a mystery five-letter word by using a process of elimination to work out the answer.
Players are helped along with a color-tiled system, with green indicating that the letter appears in the word; yellow indicating the letter is in the word but in the wrong spot; and a gray tile meaning that letter does not appear at all.
Below are some hints to help you solve today’s Wordle, but the answer appears further down, so please scroll with caution.
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‘Wordle’ #1,266 Tips and Hints for Friday, December 6
Hint #1: This word contains two vowels.
Hint #2: There are no repeated letters.
Hint #3: Friday’s answer means to push or exerting force.
Hint #4: The word is a verb and a noun.
Hint #5: It begins with the letter “S.”
‘Wordle’ #1,266 Answer for Friday, December 6
The answer to Friday’s Wordle is “Shove.”
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, it means “to push along” or “to push or put in a rough, careless, or hasty manner.” It can also be defined as “to move something by exerting force.”
As a noun, ‘shove’ means “an act or instance of shoving, a forcible push.”
Wordle updates every day at midnight in your local time zone, at which point the next puzzle becomes available. Newsweek will be back tomorrow with another round of hints and tips.
In the meantime, you could try your hand at Connections—another popular game from The New York Times, for which Newsweek also provides daily hints.
