Five letters, six guesses, one a day, and a grid of squares to post. Bought by the New York Times and, against every precedent in this dictionary, not ruined.
Evidence, with a photograph: a village fête programme, 24 July. Wordle, used correctly, in full, with no visible irony. Nobody involved is under fifty.
I was on a dial-up connection when Wordle started going round, and the thing I remember is waiting for it to load, knowing it would be worth it, and being right. That combination has not happened to me since.
The simplest definition of Wordle is the one you would give a parent, and the reason it is hard to write down is that the parent version is the one that killed it.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
