Wordle 578 4/6
Brief hope for a deuce- up in smoke
Brief hope for a trey- up in smoke
HEART
CHARM
CHARS
CHARD- never heard of it.
@minor7flat5, @BobLibDem I know both these words. I just didn’t expect either. You go for the low-hanging fruit and sometimes it’s just not the right one.
Chard: It’s a leafy green something you put in salad.
Chary: A somewhat out of date way of saying you’re wary and suspicious.
Surely many others know those words too. We all have a large variety of perfectly usable words in our vocabulary that just wouldn’t make sense to put in a game like this that has used commonly used words 99.9% of the time (I’m still chapped about PINEY)
Upon looking it up, I remember I heard CHARD used once in my entire lifetime, about 8 years ago in a discussion about good vegetables for juicing. That’s not common usage in my book.
well I nearly used SHART as my second guess but perhaps it’s not in the Wordle dictionary.
Lotta broken hearts today.
Wordle 578 4/6
CRANE
CHART
CHARM
CHARD
It was used by The_Other_Waldo_Pepper here so I guess it’s valid…
Wordle 578 5/6* 1/18/2023
ADOPT → Not a bad start. Three other common letters to try…
DEALS → Placed the A, but otherwise a strikeout. Only vowel?
BRAND → Picked up the R, placed the D. -ARD looks like a fine ending. Only so much with the letters that are left, it looks like there’s another vowel…
GUARD → Uh, nope. What the heck? Only one letter pair left actually makes sense, but I’ve never seen that word before…
CHARD
You’d have thought that getting the D early would help.
Wordle 578 4/6
MOUSE
TRAIN
WHARF
CHARD
I think striking out on the opener helped more than hurt. Lots of good eliminations in the first two words; otherwise I think this would have given me a lot more trouble than it did. I’ll take the par.
I kinda like that they throw us a curve ball every now and again. The only one that ever really ticked me off was PARER 
I know we all know, I just disagree that the words are all that uncommon. I’ve heard chard on multiple TV shows, especially cooking shows, and it shows up in restaurant reviews. Chary is certainly less common, at least in the US, but I think it is in more common usage in England.
And, of course, we need to remember that this was created to be played by a specific person, and the creator had a good idea of their vocabulary and interests. For some people it may not be all that common, for her it was.
I also like that. I have wondered if there is a pattern like crossword puzzles that get more difficult as the week progresses, but haven’t seen one.
Sometimes the answer is a soft ball that non-native speakers can get; others, it is clearly one meant to trip us up (triple letters and such); yet others, it’s a quite uncommon word. In each case it’s pretty clear to me that the choice was intentional.
Provides a degree of variety!
I still won’t give PINEY a pass.
I just go lucky today I think
Wordle 578 3/6
THING
CHAFE
CHARD
I didn’t!
Wordle 578 5/6*
IRATE
SNARL
GUARD
BOARD
CHARD
And I love CHARD!! WordleBot was pretty sneery. Thank goodness I didn’t think of ‘AWARD’.
LOL, yeah, PINEY was pretty lame.
I think too much depends on how you work the puzzle as to how hard it might be for different people. I tend to look for common letters and blends and word structure more so than actually thinking about what the final result might be. I’d much rather have it be a word that I am not all that familiar with than a CCVCV word, because I really suck at guessing.
My thought is that there’s lots of words that are frequently used in a particular field, but rarely used outside of it. I don’t consider such words to be common.
And, of course, we need to remember that this was created to be played by a specific person, and the creator had a good idea of their vocabulary and interests. For some people it may not be all that common, for her it was.
Yes, but now Wordle has an editor. If the editor is not going to remove some of the more dubious choices of Josh Wardle and his significant other, then why have one?
One thing I’ll say about ‘chary’ is that at least it’s in more general use, that is, not confined to a particular field or subject. Infrequent, yes, but without having ever read a dictionary definition of it prior to this morning, I had a pretty good idea of its meaning. All I could have told you about ‘chard’ was that it had something to do with food.
I think it’s all too subjective to say what is or isn’t common. To me CHARD is a common word that’s in general use, although obviously it’s not in some circles. CHARY I wouldn’t have gotten until I went through the whole alphabet to Y, because I didn’t even know that was a word.
Wordle 578 3/6
RAISE
HOARY
CHARD
I almost had this one in 2 guesses, but I thought I should check for more vowels first. Happy to get it in 3 though. 
I am very familiar with Chard…I don’t eat it, but it’s a very healthy green. I usually refer to it as Swiss Chard though, as it is more commonly known by, but it came to me readily when I was searching for a good second word, luckily so (even if I waited to play it till #3).
I’m still sore about Piney too. And Antic as well…surprised no one had anything to say about that one, as it’s usually said with an s (antics), and I avoided playing it for that reason (got it in 5).
Wordle 578 3/6
EARTH
HOARY
CHARD
SeaSun, we may be the only ones who guessed HOARY.
I wasn’t miffed about CHARD because I fall into one of the two general categories of people who’d be familiar with it: foodies, and people who (at least at some time in their lives) have watched a lot of cooking shows. (The second one.) And frankly that IS a lot of people, even if they are not well-represented on the Dope (at least in this particular thread).
I was just glad I didn’t try CHARY before CHARD. They seem sort of equally-familiar to me.
Too funny. 
I don’t think it’s a common word, at least to me it’s not…I have no idea how it even came to me, but I was trying for a terminal Y along with my yellow A and R, and it just popped into my head, so I went for it, and glad it did as the H really helped.
Yes, for me too. In fact, since I’d started with EARTH, by step 3 I knew the H had to be in second position–which was the key to seeing CHARD (or CHARY, which I planned to try next).
@Sherrerd oops…you forgot to add spoiler blur.