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If you’re still unsure, the answer to today’s Wordle puzzle (#580 – January 20, 2023) is alter. The word comes from Old French “alterer” and Medieval Latin “alterare,” meaning to change or become otherwise (via Etymonline). You’ll find the word as an accompaniment in the phrase “alter ego,” which refers to a person’s secondary or alternate personality (via OED). It is often confused with “altar”, which is a different word that describes a platform used for religious rituals. North Americans and Australians use “alter” to refer to the act of neutering or neutering a pet – there’s no clear origin for the context, but we guess it’s life changing to be deprived of reproductive organs.
We went with the expert-recommended Wordle seed, slate, as our first guess today, and it was a pretty good day to play by the books. There were three of the five letters in the solution word, so it eliminated all but five possible answer words, which is huge considering there are 2,315 words in the Wordle answer pool. Getting the answer right on the second try was even luckier because there were four other words that could have been the answer: alert, pleat, bleat, and cleat.
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