Today’s Wordle Hints & Answer
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Today’s Wordle Hints & Answer

March 17’s Wordle answer isn’t particularly hard to decipher if you use strategic starting words that contain a vowel. While it can be tough to guess the answer in six attempts, using some hints or one of our suggested starting words can make it easy. The main goal today is to figure out the correct positions of at least three letters in your first few attempts.



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To achieve that goal, we recommend using Wordle’s hard mode, which is much more suited for solving today’s answer. This mode will not let you reuse confirmed letters in random spots, preventing you from using guesses that could cause you to lose your streak. However, if you use this mode in tandem with hints or our recommended starting words, you should be able to solve it quickly.


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Best Starting Words For Today’s Wordle Answer

Three Starting Words To Help You Solve Wordle

March 17 2024 Wordle best starting words with a person doing a snort laugh in the background
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If you haven’t started today’s Wordle yet, we recommend using some starting words that will give you an edge. These words will let you discover the correct positions of a few letters and find some vowels/consonants. To make it slightly challenging, one of the words will have significantly less in common with the answer, while one might let you solve it in your next attempt.


Challenging Start Word For Today’s Wordle

TEARS:

  • Shares noconsonants with today’s answer.
  • Shares no vowels with today’s answer.
  • One letter is in the correct position for today’s answer.

Medium Start Word For Today’s Wordle

STORE

  • Shares no consonant with today’s answer.
  • Shares one vowel with today’s answer.
  • Three letters are in the correct position for today’s answer.

Easy Start Word For Today’s Wordle

SPORT

  • Shares one consonant with today’s answer.
  • Shares one vowel with today’s answer.
  • Four letters are in the correct position for today’s answer.

If you need some tips to solve most Wordle questions, check out this video by BuzzFeedPlayer player on YouTube.

Save Your Wordle Streak: Hints For Today’s Wordle Answer

March 17 #1002

March 17 2024 Wordle hints with a person doing a snort laugh in the background
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Using hints to solve Wordle answers works similarly to using clues for other vocabulary puzzle games such as Crosswords. Hence, the hints provided below do not spoil the answer and only give a fair idea so you can still solve the puzzle independently. Here are four hints that will help solve March 17’s Wordle answer:

Hint 1

There are no repeating letters.

Hint 2

The answer is used as a verb and a noun.

Hint 3

The vowel is in the 3rd position.

Hint 4

Make a sudden explosive sound through one’s nose.

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Today’s Wordle Answer

March 17 #1002

March 17 2024 Wordle solution with a person doing a snort laugh in the background
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While the easy starting words will let you discover the correct positions of four letters, you might be on your last attempt and don’t want to take a risk solving today’s Wordle answer. To help you out of this sticky situation, we have the actual solution to March 17’s Wordle answer below, which can be used to salvage your streak.

March 17’s Wordle answer is SNORT.

Other Games Like Wordle

Connections Icon with a purple background from NYT

While playing Wordle every day is enough for many players, there are other brain-raisers you can explore that have a similar vibe. These games are very similar to Wordle in that they don’t take too much time to complete, and some even use similar rules and mechanics. Some of these games might be slightly more complex, while others have an interesting theme.


Game Name

How To Play

Is It Free To Play?

Connections (NYT)

Find the four words that share something in common. Find hints and tips to beat Connections with our daily answer article.

Yes

Lookdle

Guess the famous person from a pixelated picture.

Yes

The Password Game

Satisfy every “Rule” that the game prompts once a player has entered the desired password. Rules can conflict with each other as you progress.

Yes

Primel

Guess a five-digit prime number in six tries.

Yes

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Wordle Poster

Wordle

Platform(s)
iOS , Android , Microsoft Windows

Released
October 1, 2021

Developer(s)
Josh Wardle

Publisher(s)
Josh Wardle , The New York Times Company

Genre(s)
Puzzle

ESRB
E

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