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Today's Wordle puzzle is a little tricky. Remember that letters can appear more than once. 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 one repeated letter.
Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels
Today's Wordle answer has two vowels, but one of them is the repeated letter, so you'll see that one twice, plus the other vowel once.
Wordle hint No. 3: First letter
Today's Wordle answer begins with E.
Wordle hint No. 4: Last letter
Today's Wordle answer ends with E.
Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning
Today's Wordle answer can mean to rub out or remove writing or marks.
TODAY'S WORDLE ANSWER
Today's Wordle answer is ERASE
Yesterday's Wordle answer
Yesterday's Wordle answer, Dec. 9, No. 1634 was SNIDE.
Recent Wordle answers
Dec. 5, No. 1630: AMONG
Dec. 6, No. 1631: WAIST
Dec. 7, No. 1632: FLUTE
Dec. 8, No. 1633: GRAVY
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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.
Bennett hasn't commented on it, but it seems possible Wordle could expand to six-letter words, too. Options abound.