Today’s ‘Wordle’ Hints And Clues For Friday, March 8th — Wordle #993 Answer

The weekend is almost upon us—huzzah!—and that means it’s 2XP Friday for all you Competitive Wordle players. I’m actually thinking maybe it would be fun to start some kind of leaderboard for this but I’m not sure how I’d go about it or how much work that would require. It would be kind of fun to know who the best of the best are—the creme de la creme.

In any case, on 2XP Friday you either double your positive or negative score. In Competitive Wordle, you play against Wordle Bot (or against me, if you’d prefer). The scoring works like so:

• +3 points for guessing in 1; +2 points for guessing in 2; +1 point for guessing in 3; 0 points for guessing in 4; -1 point for guessing in 5; -2 points for guessing in 6; -3 points for missing the Wordle entirely.
• +1 point if you beat the Wordle Bot (or me, or whoever you’re playing against); -1 if you lose to the Wordle Bot etc. 0 points for tying.

And on Fridays, you double that score. So let’s get on with it then, shall we?

How To Solve Today’s Wordle

The Hint: Dawn.

The Clue: This Wordle begins with a vowel.

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The Answer:

Wordle Analysis

Every day I check Wordle Bot to see how I did. You can check your Wordles with Wordle Bot right here.

Speaking of creme de la creme, my opening guess—cream—wasn’t too shabby at all, though 97 remaining words isn’t great, and every one of the three boxes I turned over were yellow. I figured I needed to just rearrange them rather than guess all new letters, and so I went with a word that describes myself: gamer.

This helped, and with the ‘A’ in the second spot, but the ‘E’ not in the fourth (my gut told me it would be, since so many words—gamer, faker, waver, etc.—have those vowels in those spots) I figured the ‘E’ was probably the starting letter or possibly the final letter. The first word I could come up with was earth, which sounded like a perfectly reasonable guess.

It wasn’t bad! I now had just one more word left to me: early, in four. And better late than never.

Competitive Wordle Score

Rats! The Bot beat me by somehow guessing in three. That’s -1 for losing and 0 for guessing in four. -1 x 2 for 2XP Friday is -2. Rats I say!

Today’s Wordle Etymology

The word “early” comes from the Old English “ǣrlic” (adjective) and “ǣrlice” (adverb), which mean “occurring or done before the usual or expected time” or “in the near past.” These Old English terms derive from “ǣr,” meaning “soon, ere, before (in time).” The Proto-Germanic root of “ǣr” is “*airiz,” and it is further traced back to the Proto-Indo-European root “*áyer-“, meaning “day, morning.” This root implies a connection to the concept of the time before or during the morning, hence “early.”

The use of “early” has evolved to describe not only timing but also sequence and precedence in various contexts, maintaining its core meaning related to the beginning or first part of a period, event, or sequence. The etymology reflects the human tendency to mark time based on natural phenomena, such as the start of a day, indicating how language evolves to encompass both literal and figurative senses of words related to time and order.