Today’s Wordle Answer #609 – February 18, 2023 Solution And Hints

The solution to today’s Wordle puzzle (#609 – February 18, 2023) is avail. To avail is to serve or be of use, or to produce or result in an advantage. As Merriam-Webster notes, the word is of Anglo-French origin, from “availler,” which is likely a combination of “a-” (from Latin ad-) and “valer” or “valoir,” from Latin “valēre,” meaning “to be of worth.”

Interestingly, the same Latin word is the root of English “wield,” which stems from Old English “wieldan,” borrowing from Old High German “waltan,” which means to rule, and traces back to Latin “valēre,” although in this context meaning “to be strong.”

It took three tries for us to figure out the answer, so we’ve officially started a three-guess win streak! We went with the word “brave” as our starting guess, and it was a particularly lucky start — there were only two possible guesses left. Our second guess was “avast,” which of course wasn’t the right answer, but the third time was the charm.