Today’s Wordle Answer #652 – April 2, 2023 Solution And Hints

If you’re still unsure, the solution to today’s Wordle puzzle (#652 – April 2, 2023) is STOCK. The word has various meanings depending on whether you’re talking about merchandise, financial investment, genealogy, or cooking, and we looked to the word’s etymology to explain this variation.

Etymonline explains that the word is from Old English “stocc,” which described a stump, post, or tree trunk, from Proto-Germanic “stauk-” of the same meaning. Per the same source, however, it is unclear how the word evolved to mean what it now means in some of the contexts above.

In its usage to mean “one’s ancestry or line of descent,” the connection is not too out of reach — it stems from a figurative use of the “tree trunk” sense, a play on the words “family tree.”. The phrase “stock still” is also from this sense, as in to stand as still as a tree trunk. But this is as far as we could connect the dots of the word’s evolution, and it is unclear how it came to mean commercial inventory or generic photos.

We solved the puzzle in three tries today — one lesser than the day’s average. We chose “bloke” as a starting word, and after the second guess, “paint,” we had three colored tiles and could make a correct third guess. We hope you finish even faster.