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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 2, #1413

Today's Wordle might trip you up: Here are hints and the answers.

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Read on for help with Wordle.

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Today's Wordle puzzle is a tough one. The first letter is an odd one that I never guess. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on.

Today's Wordle hints

Before we show you today's Wordle answer, we'll give you some hints. If you don't want a spoiler, look away now.

Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats

Today's Wordle answer has no repeated letters.

Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels

There is one vowel in today's Wordle answer.

Wordle hint No. 3: First letter

Today's Wordle answer begins with the letter W.

Wordle hint No. 4: Start

Today's Wordle answer begins with a three-letter pronoun.

Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning

Today's Wordle answer means something that belongs to, or is associated with, a particular person.

TODAY'S WORDLE ANSWER

Today's Wordle answer is WHOSE.

Yesterday's Wordle answer

Yesterday's Wordle answer, May 1,  No. 1412 was ADEPT.

Recent Wordle answers

April 27, No. 1408: WEEDY

April 28, No. 1409: DUMMY

April 29, No. 1410: BLISS

April 30, No. 1411: IDLER

Will Wordle run out of words?

When Wordle began, creator Josh Wardle used a list of five-letter words he'd shared with his partner, picking only the words they recognized. While that's more than 2,000 words, more than half of them have already been used.

Wordle editor Tracy Bennett admitted that the game will eventually have to come to grips with the fact that the word list is not eternal.

"One possibility is that we could recycle old words at some point, like when we get close to the end," Bennett told a Wordle player on TikTok.

She also said the editors might throw all the words back in and reuse them, or allow plurals, or past tense, something that's not done now.