English
Wordle
Coined in 2021 as a blend of word + Wardle, the surname of the game’s creator and developer, Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle.
Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- ‘to say’
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Proto-Germanic *wurdą
Proto-West Germanic *word
Old English word
Middle English word ‘a word’
English word
The story
Coined in 2021 as a blend of word + Wardle, the surname of the game’s creator and developer, Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle.
Today it means
name A web-based word game, where players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, with feedback given for each guess in the form of colored tiles indicating when letters match or occupy the correct position.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Wordle