Mondays are hard enough without six rows of five blank little squares staring at you from your screen. If you’ve embarked on a new Wordle puzzle this morning thinking it would be a lot of fun but you’re stuck into an unpleasant standstill, don’t worry, Newsweek has your back.
Below, you’ll find a series of five hints to help you solve Monday’s Wordle. If you just want to know the solution, scroll all the way to the end to find the solution. Sometimes it’s just that kind of day.
But first, let’s recap how we got to be so enamored with this little game. Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle created the game for his puzzle-solving girlfriend, but Wordle quickly exploded in popularity once made public.
The game had 90 players a month after being launched in October 2021. A month after that, it had 300,000 players. A week after that, the game had garnered 2 million players, becoming a world sensation.
In January 2022, the New York Times bought it for an undisclosed sum, causing a little bit of a stir—though Wardle reassured fans that the game was already programmed for years to come, and nothing will change.
Every day, Wordle resets with a brand new challenge. The objective of the game is to guess the correct five-letter word within six guesses. It’s not always easy. We are here for it.
Wordle #1,157, Clues for Monday, August 19
Newsweek has put together five clues to help you solve today’s Wordle brainteaser.
Hint #1: The answer contains a repeated letter.
Hint #2: The repeated letter is a vowel.
Hint #3: It is a noun.
Hint #4: Let’s say that it’s a word that is more common in Europe.
Hint #5: If you needed to size something up, you’d probably be using it.
Wordle #1,157, Answer for Monday, August 19
The answer to today’s Wordle puzzle is “meter.”
The Merriam-Webster has several definitions for “meter.” The word can be used to describe a “systematically arranged and measured rhythm;” “a measure or unit of metrical verse;” and “the basic recurrent rhythmical pattern of note values, accents, and beats per measure in music.”
But it can also be used to indicates “one that measures” and “the base unit of length in the International System of Units that is equal to the distance traveled by light in a vacuum.”
Finally, as a noun, it can also be used to indicate “an instrument for measuring and sometimes recording the time or amount of something.”
