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Puzzle #1307 · January 16, 2025

Wordle Answer for January 16, 2025

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Archived January 16, 2025 · Maintained by the WhatIsTodaysWordle editorial team

Quick Facts: Wordle #1307

Puzzle number
#1307
Date
January 16, 2025
Word length
Five letters
First letter
F
Last letter
T
NYT tester difficulty
1.9 out of 6
WordleBot average
3.4 attempts (easy), 3.6 (hard)

The Hints, in Order

Each hint below adds one piece of information without giving away the rest — open them one at a time and stop as soon as you've got enough to make a confident guess.

  1. 1. Letter count +

    The word has five letters and works as a noun.

  2. 2. Starting letter +

    It begins with F.

  3. 3. Vowel pattern +

    There's only one vowel in the whole word, and it's in the third position.

  4. 4. Word ending +

    It means A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air..

Still stuck after all four? That usually means it's worth re-reading the tiles from your own last guess rather than reaching for a brand new word.

The Answer

The solution is FLINT. It's a noun that means A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.. Example: "He used flint to make a fire." Forms: flints.

Repeated Letters

There are no repeated letters.

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