Wordle · Archive · #662 · Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Wordle #662 Answer — Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Hints, difficulty, the word, and what it means.
Hints & Answer
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Hint 1Category
It's a noun. A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc. -
Hint 2Vowels & repeats
Today's word has 2 vowels, and all five letters are different. -
Hint 3First letter
It starts with B. -
Hint 4Getting closer
The sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate.
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Wordle answer #662
BORAX
noun
The Word, Explained
A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
Close cousins: e285, preservative
A friendly one — common letters, no repeats, and enough vowels for openers to find.
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