Wordle Hints

Wordle #1261

Wordle Hints and Answer for Sunday, December 1, 2024

Stuck on today's Wordle? You're in the right place! Below you'll find hints that start vague and get more specific. Try to solve it with as few hints as possible.

Today's puzzle is rated Hard difficulty, so you may need extra hints! The answer is a noun, adjective with 3 vowels and uses fairly common letters.

Difficulty: Hard
noun, adjective

Letter Facts

Vowels
3
Consonants
2
Repeats
No
Letters
Fairly Common

Recommended Starting Words

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Recommended Starting Words

AUDIOVALUEFLAME

Hints

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Starting Hint

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Starting Hint

This word relates to colors and visual appearance.

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Getting Warmer

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Getting Warmer

You might find this in a paint store, fabric shop, or fashion magazine. Think soft, muted tones.

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Letter Clue

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Letter Clue

The word starts with the letter M.

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Stronger Hint

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Stronger Hint

This pale purple shade sits somewhere between lavender and lilac on the color spectrum.

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Rhyming Clue

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Rhyming Clue

This word rhymes with STOVE.

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Final Clue

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Final Clue

It starts with M and ends with E. This dusty purple color gets its name from a French word for a flowering plant.

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Answer

MAUVE

Mauve is a pale purple color with gray and blue undertones. The word comes from the French name for the mallow flower, whose petals display this distinctive shade. It gained popularity in the 1850s when chemist William Henry Perkin accidentally created the first synthetic mauve dye, sparking a fashion craze known as mauve mania.

Strategy Tip

Today's puzzle has an unusually high vowel count with three vowels packed into just five letters. When you notice multiple vowels lighting up in your early guesses, try words with vowel clusters or less common vowel combinations to narrow things down quickly.