NYT Wordle #1297 for today, January 6, 2025, is now available to be solved. Created by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle, the web-based word game gives players six opportunities to guess a five-letter word correctly. If the players guess a letter and its place in the word accurately, it will appear in green. Conversely, if the letter is correct, but its position isn’t, it will be in yellow. And if it’s an incorrect guess, the color will be gray.
So, here are the hints, clues, and the answer for Wordle for January 6.
Wordle hints for January 6
Hint 1: How many vowels and consonants do the word have?
The word has one vowel and four consonants.
Hint 2: What is the vowel’s position in the word?
The vowel is the fourth letter of the word.
Hint 3: Is the word a verb, noun, or adjective?
The word is a noun.
Hint 4: Give a vague description of the word.
A small plant stem with leaves.
Hint 5: Give an associated activity with the word.
Garnish.
What is the Wordle answer for today, January 6?
The answer for NYT Wordle #1297 for today, January 6, 2025, is SPRIG.
As mentioned above, sprig often goes together with garnish in culinary contexts. For instance: “The chef garnished the dessert with a sprig of mint.” The etymology of the word can be traced back to Middle English sprig and sprigge, the origin of which can’t be tracked down further.
Alternatively, the word may have come from the Middle Low German sprik or spricke. Possible origins also include dialectal English sprag, Old English spræc, and German Low German Spricke and Sprick.
Today’s word was relatively hard to deduce given the sparseness of vowels in it. Once we figured out that “I” is the vowel and appears in the word as the fourth letter, we came up with a few incorrect answers. However, we eventually realized that it starts with the “spr” trigraph, and things then became much easier.
