The NYT Wordle continues to be popular among the publication’s readership, and its latest entry, #1298, for today, January 7, can now be solved. The game offers players six opportunities to guess a five-letter word accurately. If a letter is guessed correctly and placed in the right position, it will appear in green. On the other hand, if the player puts a letter that is part of the word in an incorrect position, the color will be yellow. As for the instances when the letter itself is wrong, its color will be gray.
Here are the hints, clues, and the answer for today, January 7.
Wordle hints for January 7
Hint 1: How many vowels and consonants does the word have?
The word has a recurring vowel that doesn’t appear consecutively, and three consonants.
Hint 2: Is the word a verb, noun, or adjective?
The word is a noun.
Hint 3: Does the word start with a vowel or a consonant?
The word starts with a vowel.
Hint 4: Give a vague description of the word.
The word has two different but related definitions. The word is the name of a mythical Titan. it also means a book or a collection of maps.
What is the Wordle answer for today, January 7?
The Wordle #1298 for today, January 7, 2025, is ATLAS.
Atlas is the name of the legendary Titan forced to hold up the sky or heaven at the end of the Earth. At some point in history, he started being associated with the Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa. Legends also claim he was the first King of Mauretania (present-day Morocco and West Algeria).
In the late 16th century, the word atlas also started to be used for a book or collection of maps following the publication of German-Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator’s Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura.
Figuring out today’s word might have been a tough task, and several of our attempts proved to be incorrect. However, things changed when we discovered that A appears as the first and third letters of the word.
