Sunday is a great moment to spend time with friends and family, but you can also add some action to your day by figuring out the Wordle answer for today, 23rd June 2024.

For the uninitiated, the aim of Wordle is to work out a daily five-letter word within six guesses. The fewer the guesses, the better – and if you fail to guess it at all, you’ll break your streak.

The latter is why working out today’s Wordle answer is such a priority, as players pride themselves on keeping their streak going. So why gamble on a risky final guess when you can learn a few clues and, failing that, get the definitive answer? This page can help with that.

Once you have today’s word, learn more about Wordle and how the New York Times became interested in games in this interview with Jonathan Knight, Head of Games for the NYTimes. In keeping with the word theme, we’ve also discussed why The NYTimes Mini Crossword is a reliable joy.

Clues for today’s Wordle answer

Instead of going straight to the answer, you might only need a few hints to get you over the line:

• The word has no repeating letters in it.
• Today’s word has two vowels in it.
• This word starts with ‘B’.
• The word is the name of the instrument that playes whenever a building or units are finished, or you’re being attacked, in Age of Empire games.

Still not sure? Read on for the answer.

Wordle answer for word 1100 on 23rd June 2024

Even with the above clues, still not sure and want to keep that streak going?

The Wordle answer today is BUGLE.

On this lazy Sunday, I decided to start using one of the words in my list of best Wordle starters. My first guess was ‘CAUSE’ which gave me the ‘E’ at the end of the word and indicated that ‘U’ was also in the word. Now, for my second guess, I tried a different strategy using a word with none of these letters to see if I could find a new one. By using ‘INGOT’, I learned that the word had a ‘G’ right in the middle of it. I wish this had been enough because I spent all my remaining tries and didn’t get the right answer.

Now you have the answer, do not spoil it for others! Remember, you can share your results spoiler-free in the form of a grid.

Of course, no one has to know you came to this page to work it out. Maybe put in two or three fake guesses first to throw them off the scent, perhaps?

Today’s Wordle etymology

When investigating the etymology of ‘BUGLE’, we find out that this musical instrument name has roots in the Latin word ‘BUCULUS’, the term to indicate a young bull. The word then appears in Old French as ‘BUGLE’ already refering to a musical instrument as well as some animals.

It’s in the 14th century that we see the word ‘BUGLEHORN’ which was the name of a type of horn used played in songs or during huntings.

Wordle past answers for this week

And now for our ‘Previously on Wordle’ segment! (I know ‘in’ works better, but let me have this…) Last week has seen the following words make appearance in Wordle so far:

• SATURDAY 22nd June – EDICT
• FRIDAY 21st June – PAINT
• THURSDAY 20th June – SCENT
• WEDNESDAY 19th June – TERSE
• TUESDAY 18th June – COVER

If you’d like to know all of the words which has graced Wordle in times gone by, check out our past Wordle answers archive.

What to play after Wordle

With your daily Wordle completed, the question is – what shall you play now?

You can, of course, try out the other word-based games offered by the New York Times, like Spelling Bee, the Mini Crossword and Letter Boxed. You can also take a crack at Connections, the daily Sudokus and Tiles – a rather additive motif matching game.

There’s also a range of games which have put a twist on the Wordle formula. Squaredle challenges you to find a series of words by connecting letters in a four by four grid. Meanwhile Dordle, Quorodly, Octordly and Sedecordle all keep to the standard Wordle, while increasing the number of words you have to find. The challenge comes in how your guesses count for all of the words, so you need to decide whether you’re going to focus on a specific word or try to solve multiple words at the same time. Thankfully, the number of guesses you’re given increases alongside the amount of words you’re expected to solve.

If you want a break from spelling though, try GeoGuessr. Here you’ll be given a picture of somewhere, anywhere, in the world and have to place a marker on where you think that location is. There’s even an Old School RuneScape version.

Hope you enjoyed playing Wordle today!