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What was up with today’s Wordle answer? I know it’s a word, and I know its plural form is pretty common, and none of the letters are especially uncommon, but still. This word never came to my mind. Today’s Wordle answer is bound to break some streaks. Ugh!
I’m nodding along with the Reddit user who wrote in the Wordle subreddit, “Am I going mad? I am English, a pretty well-educated, well-read person. Has anyone else, aside from academic mathematicians or statisticians ever encountered this word in the singular before?”
Not everyone agrees.
“I don’t think (today’s Wordle answer) is all that obscure for word lovers! It’s playable in Scrabble,” Peter Sokolowski, an editor at Merriam-Webster, told CNET.
Want to know a little bit about the word itself?
“These Latin singulars for nouns more commonly used with their plurals include arcanum and bacterium for arcana and bacteria,” Sokolowski said. “Some are equally well known, like media/medium, while some are more common as singulars but can form the plural in the same way as data, like stadium and atrium and auditorium. English absorbed a large number of Latin terms during the Renaissance and many of them were used with Latin plurals and still are, especially in academic contexts, like colloquia, symposia, curricula.”
If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer for today’s super-tricky Wordle puzzle, 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 no repeated letters.
Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels
There are two vowels in today’s Wordle answer.
Wordle hint No. 3: First letter
Today’s Wordle answer begins with the letter D.
Wordle hint No. 4: Engineering
Today’s Wordle answer can refer to an axis of reference point in engineering and drafting.
Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning
Today’s Wordle answer can refer to a singular piece of information. Think “data,” but just one item.
Today’s Wordle answer
Today’s Wordle answer is DATUM. Yes, not exactly the most common word out there, although its plural counterpart, data, is more well-known. If you blew it, join the club. Tomorrow’s another day…
Yesterday’s Wordle answer
Yesterday’s Wordle answer, June 4, No. 1446 was CEASE.
Recent Wordle answers
May 31, No. 1442: HABIT
June 1, No. 1443: ROUGH
June 2, No. 1444: PREEN
June 3, No. 1445: ADMIN
What’s the best Wordle starting word?
Don’t be afraid to use our tip sheet ranking all the letters in the alphabet by frequency of uses. In short, you want starter words that lean heavy on E, A and R, and don’t contain Z, J and Q.
Some solid starter words to try:
ADIEU
TRAIN
CLOSE
STARE
NOISE
