Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Feb. 26, #1348

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Today’s Wordle puzzle is a common word, with fairly common letters. But the starting letter is one I usually think of as appearing in the second or third position, not beginning the word. 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: Start letter

Today’s Wordle answer begins with the letter A.

Wordle hint No. 4: Part of speech

Today’s Wordle answer can be a noun or a verb.

Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning

Today’s Wordle answer can refer to a prize or honor, and also to the act of giving such a prize.

TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER

Today’s Wordle answer is AWARD.

Yesterday’s Wordle answer

Yesterday’s Wordle answer, Feb. 25,  No. 1347, was DRYER.

Recent Wordle answers

Feb. 21, No. 1343: CLOVE

Feb. 22, No. 1344: CREAM

Feb. 23, No. 1345: OTTER

Feb. 24, No. 1346: GLAND

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.