Wordle 472 Answer, October 4: Check Out Hints And Clues To Solve Today's Wordle Puzzle

Wordle 472 Answer Today: Here are some clues and hints for you to crack today's Wordle puzzle.

Wordle 472

Wordle 472 Answer Today, October 4: Now this one is going to be tough. The Wordle challenge today is a word many may not have heard before. Players will find the puzzle tough to crack as the word of the day is quite academic and gets rarely featured in regular conversations. The combination of letters is not unusual but won't be easy to guess, either. And you may encounter the problem of multiple options too as there are a few words that are spelt this way, though pronounced differently. Need more hints to solve Wordle 472? Read on.

How To Play Wordle And What Are Its Rules

Wordle, created by US-based software engineer Josh Wardle last year, has completed a year of its existence. The word game is now owned by The New York Times, which bought it from Wardle in January this year. Free-to-play Wordle is essentially a guessing game, and has been a hit from the beginning. NYT did not bring any changes to its features after the takeover.

Every day, rather midnight, a new challenge is released across the world. This means some countries get to see the new five-letter word before others do. 

The rules are simple. A player gets six chances to guess the randomly generated word of the day. The squares meant to contain the letters turn green, yellow or grey depending on the status of the letters you enter, and the colours of the box let you know if you are on the right track or wrong.  

If the box turns green, the letter is in the right position. A yellow box means the word contains this letter but you have placed it wrong. A grey box means the letter is incorrect

Wordle 472 Hints And Answer

• The word has two vowels
• There is no duplicate letter
• It's a noun
• The vowels are 'O' and 'U'     
• The last letter is 'H'  

Were the hints useful? If not, read on and see the right answer.

The Wordle 472 answer is 'BOUGH'. The word means "a large branch of a tree", as described by the Cambridge dictionary.