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CNET
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNET
Today's NYT Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 30, #1441
Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Yesterday's Wordle puzzle was tough, and today's follows suit. It's an oddball word and it's packed full of vowels, including one repeat. If you want a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hints Before we show you today's Wordle answer, we'll give you some hints. If you don't want a spoiler, look away now. Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats Today's Wordle answer has one repeated letter. Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels There are two vowels in today's Wordle answer, but one is the repeated letter, so you'll see that one twice. Wordle hint No. 3: First letter Today's Wordle answer begins with a vowel. Wordle hint No. 4: And that letter is… Today's Wordle answer begins with I. Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning Today's Wordle answer can refer to a group of words that mean something different than their literal meanings as separate words. An example might be, "it's raining cats and dogs." TODAY'S WORDLE ANSWER Today's Wordle answer is IDIOM. Yesterday's Wordle answer Yesterday's Wordle answer, May 29, No. 1440 was QUASH. Recent Wordle answers May 25, No. 1436: GRIFT May 26, No. 1437: DRONE May 27, No. 1438: SPORT May 28, No. 1439: POLAR
Times
16-05-2025
- Times
A saucy French recipe made us go the full ‘monter'
Like linguistic magpies, we English-speakers pick up pleasing and useful words from around the world, as well as from the invaders who used to turn up here every few hundred years, and it has given us the biggest vocabulary in the world. How do others get by with fewer words? Do they make up for it with more inventive use of idiom and nuance? We like to think not — indeed our word 'run' has 645 meanings on its own — but I was impressed by the variety of uses to which the French put monter, according to the Collins-Robert dictionary. Monter à Paris can mean, it says, to go up to Paris, to go to work in Paris or to move to Paris,
