Today’s answer is not a word British players are ever likely to have heard and it’s ruining score streaks across the country.
The creator of Wordle might be Welsh but although the game was originally hosted on a British website the language used for all of its puzzles has always been American English – even though the game has never made that fact clear.
That lack of clarity has caused plenty of confusion in the past, especially as the game somehow still manages to include uniquely British words, with over a previous answer being BLOKE – which isn’t a word that’s used in the U.S.
Today’s is the opposite, as it’s not a word anyone in the UK is likely to utter, unless it’s as a person’s name. Except Wordle never has names as an answer, so nobody is going to guess that. To explain more we’ll have to spoil the answer, so be careful about reading any further…
The answer to today’s puzzle isn’t difficult in terms of the normal rules of Wordle, since there are no rare letters. The last two are very common, and could fit a number of different words, but they shouldn’t cause much problem if you’re familiar with the word – which if you’re British you very probably aren’t.
The solution to Wordle 320 is… HOMER. That’s obviously a name, of a certain famous cartoon character and an Ancient Greek poet, but that’s not the context it’s being used in when it comes to Wordle.
Homer is also a term for a home run in baseball, so it’s not a word many in the UK are ever likely to use or hear. Technically it’s also slang for a homing pigeon but that’s even more obscure.
As you’d expect, many British players on Twitter and beyond have been furious at losing their score streaks because of it, with many not realising it’s anything other than Homer Simpson’s first name.
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