Are you still waking up every day and doing a Wordle? First of all, I’m so sorry your life’s turned out this way, and second of all you might end up seeing some words you’ve seen before at some point in the near future. Why? Well, because middle class people have almost drained the entire English language of five-letter words, sort of.
Yes, that thing you started doing back when your brain wasn’t quite the same after the Pandemic hit and you wanted to develop an addiction that let you feel smarter than your Candy Crush-playing aunt or uncle, it’s still having to find new words to stick in front of you. Don’t worry though, its current stewards will find a way to keep doing that until the end of time.
As spotted by Eurogamer, the New York Times’ Wordle editor Tracy Bennett discussed the idea of planning around potentially running out of unused five-letter words in a recent TikTok Q&A session, the comments of which I assume were grammatically flawless. Bennett revealed that there are “only 2300+ words left” hanging about in the game’s database at current, though there have been some new words being added in recently.
