Wordle is the newest game sensation to flood social media. Players try with clues to guess a single, five-letter word every day on the Wordle website and are able to share their successes (and failures) with a spoiler-free version of the playing board. There is a new word for February 20, 2022, and it's an uncommon word that many players may need help with.

How To Play Wordle

The viral success of Wordle has spawned tons of niche variations and copycats, but the original is still free-to-play, simple-to-learn, and hard-to-master. Players just head to the updated New York Times version of the website and begin to play.

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  • First, players need to choose their best starting Wordle word. It has to be five letters and must be an English word.
  • The letters will highlight different colors once the first word is put in.
  • Green letters are correct while gray are incorrect. Yellow letters are the right letters just in the wrong spot.
  • Using these clues, players have six total guesses to get the answer correct.
  • The word puzzle resets every day at midnight local time.

Hints for the Wordle 246 for February 20, 2022

This is the answer for the New York Times version. If players are playing the old version, the powerlanguage version of Wordle may have different answers than the New York Times version. So keep that in mind if anyone is still playing with one of the older lists.

  • Today's word is mostly used in legal documents rather than day-to-day speech.
  • It begins with the letter "T."
  • The word contains two vowels.
  • The answer to the Wordle today also contains a double letter.
  • This word contains at least one "C."
  • It means something that is implied but not explicitly spelled out.

Answer for Wordle 246 for February 20, 2022

Still need the answer to today's puzzle? The answer is not very common and may have some players stumped. Check below this image for the spoiler for Wordle puzzle 246.

Wordle Mobile App
The New York Times mobile game Wordle.

The answer to Wordle puzzle 246 is TACIT.

If players can't get enough of this puzzle word game, they should check out some of the many variations and clones out there. There is the super difficult eight-word Wordle called Octordle, the Pokemon-themed Squirdle, the endless Wordle puzzle variation called Hello Wordl, and many more. If players are looking for a Wordle-type puzzle game, there is probably one out there for just about everyone.

Wordle is available for any browser.

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