'Wordle' #1187 Hints, Clues and Answer for Wednesday, September ...

Wordle is the daily puzzle that has barely lost its popularity since bursting onto the scene in 2021.

It's a word game that requires players to solve a mystery five-letter word. They're then encouraged to share and compare their results with friends and family, or even post their results on social media.

Wordle's rules are simple enough. Players get six chances to guess the five-letter word and feedback is given to help solve it using a color-coded system. This allows players to work out the word through a process of elimination.

A green tile means the letter is correct, while yellow tells a player that the letter appears in the word but is just in the wrong spot. A gray tile indicates that the letter is not in the word at all.

The New York Times purchased Wordle in 2022. Two of its staff, Josh Katz and Aatish Bhatia, analyzed 515 million Wordle games which uncovered some very interesting findings about the way people play the game.

They found that one of the most popular first-word choices was "Adieu," but it was not actually all that helpful when it came solving the game.

"The strategy seems to make sense: Figure out the vowels, and the other letters will fall into place," Katz and Bhatia wrote in The New York Times in December 2023 after conducting their research. "Our new analysis, though, shows that starting with ADIEU or AUDIO does actually put human players at a disadvantage."

They continued: "On average, players who started with ADIEU needed about a third of a turn more to solve their Wordles compared with players who started with SLATE, adding up to 132 extra turns over the course of a year."

If you need some help working out Wednesday's Wordle answer, check out our collection of clues below. But scroll with caution because the answer is revealed at the end of this article.

'Wordle' #1,187, Hints for Wednesday, September 18 Game

Hint #1: Wednesday's answer is an adverb.

Hint #2: It contains one repeated letter.

Hint #3: The answer begins with a consonant.

Hint #4: Wednesday's Wordle has two syllables.

Hint #5: A similar word is "completely."

'Wordle' #1,187, Answer for Wednesday, September 18 Game

Tuesday's Wordle answer is "FULLY."

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary it means, "in a full manner or degree," or "at least."

Congratulations if you got it right, but don't worry if you didn't. Wordle updates every day at midnight in your local time zone, so you'll soon get another opportunity to play. Newsweek will be back with another round of hints and tips for each new game.