Today’s Wordle hint and answer on Sunday 28th January for 953

Let’s spend a relaxed Sunday together trying to figure out the Wordle answer for today, 28th January.

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:

• This word does have a repeating letter, it’s the first and fourth letter.
• There is one vowel in this word, but it’s repeated twice.
• This word ends with ‘R’.
• Today’s word can be the name of a slowly dying piece of glowing wood left in a fire.

Still not sure? Read on for the answer.

Wordle answer for word 953 on 28th January 2024

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

The Wordle answer today is EMBER.

Well…that did not go how I’d hope. After guessing ‘ENTER’ to get three of the letters I needed, it only took a few more attempts to get today’s word ‘EMBER’.

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

Today’s word ‘EMBER’ comes from the Old English word ‘YMBRYNE’ which means ‘course or circuit’. I’m going to use that from now on.

Here’s a little bit of game trivia for you too! In Spyro: A Heroes Tail (I know, I’m going back quite a long time now) there is a little pink dragon that Spyro speaks to called Ember. She’s very interested in the main hero, but the purple dragon remained blatantly oblivious.

Wordle past answers for this week

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

• Monday 22nd January (947) – TWEAK
• Tuesday 23rd January (948) – STILL
• Wednesday 24th January (949) – RELIC
• Thursday 25th January (950) – BLOCK
• Friday 26th January (951) – ALOOF
• Saturday 27th January (952) – SNAKE

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!