Wordle #619

Wordle Hints and Answer for Tuesday, February 28, 2023

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 Medium difficulty. The answer is a noun with 2 vowels and uses fairly common letters.

Difficulty: Medium

noun

Letter Facts

Vowels

Consonants

Repeats

Letters

Fairly Common

Recommended Starting Words

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Recommended Starting Words

PLANKKOALALOYAL

Hints

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Starting Hint

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Starting Hint

This word relates to music and movement, something you might do at a party or celebration.

Getting Warmer

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Getting Warmer

Think of traditional European dances, particularly those with a lively, bouncy rhythm that became popular in the 19th century.

Letter Clue

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Letter Clue

The word starts with the letter P.

Stronger Hint

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Stronger Hint

This dance style is famously paired with dots in a popular fabric pattern.

Rhyming Clue

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Rhyming Clue

The answer rhymes with YOLK and also with FOLK.

Final Clue

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Final Clue

This five letter word starts with P and ends with A. Think of accordion music and that famous dotted pattern.

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Answer

POLKA

The word refers to a lively dance of Bohemian origin that became wildly popular across Europe and America in the 1800s. It features a distinctive quick tempo in 2/4 time with a characteristic hop step. The term also appears in the phrase describing a pattern of evenly spaced dots on fabric, which became fashionable around the same era.

Strategy Tip

Words ending in A are less common in English but do appear in Wordle. If you suspect a word might have foreign origins, consider vowel endings. Today's puzzle is a great reminder that borrowed words from other languages can be valid answers.