Is this a mistake in Wordle today? (No spoilers)

[MidnightScroller]

Once you’ve got the solution, I put the 4th letter repeated as the 5th, which was wrong but accepted as a guess.
However it is not spelled like that in the Oxford English Dictionary which is what it says it uses for the NY times version, where it’s a 4 letter word.
It says it’s curated by humans - anyone found an error before?

I have come to accept that it is American and therefore I roll my eyes and move on with my day.

I got today's solution on my third guess, not expecting it to be accepted as a word, but there it was.

I think it’s an American word - I didn’t use the double letter as a guess because I knew it wasn’t spelt that way but have been caught out by American spelling before e.g. honor instead of honour.

I was just annoyed with the actual answer (which I got eventually). I'd consider it a name (or a bigoted slur) not a noun. I guess it's an Americanism.

I don't think it's an error. I googled the word you guessed and a Cambridge Dictionary definition came up, although I've personally never heard it used that way! I'd guess they use multiple sources not just the OED.

Aaaaand that's a spoiler. 🙄

I was slow to get it today but I would have understood that word (probably from US films to be fair) but if I gave you the context it would be a huge spoiler.

It's an Americanism so won't be familiar to some of us in the UK. I have heard it and used it in that sort of context.

It's not a mistake, just a cultural disconnect.
Inevitable for puzzles from one culture being done by people from another, really.

Bracket City is even worse for Americanisms. I remember to use 'color' etc but forget other spellings and so many of the clues are about baseball etc. Otherwise, it's a fun puzzle!

Thanks for your replies. Yes must be Americanism and I saw it on Cambridge English but they say it’s based on Oxford. TBH I’m pleased it’s human designed rather than autogenerated so don’t mind the odd error. Nice to imagine some boffiny types pondering what to use too.
Is there a list of previous solutions anywhere? Although it would feel a bit like cheating to use it to help guess solutions as I prefer to only rely on my brain. I wonder if/when they’ll start repeating words.

I wondered how today's word could be the answer and ended up googling "XXXX US meaning" to see why it qualified.

I've heard the word used in American films over the years as part of a phrase so I was familiar with it. There have been previous Wordle words I've raised my eyebrows about more than this one!

I did it at just after midnight and came looking to see if there was a mumsnet thread on it. Ridiculous word!

am I on the correct on? ? r i t ?

@MidnightScroller It is a programme that generates the puzzle each day. A Welsh bloke living in NYC created it to amuse his girlfriend.

NYT bought it to add to their games section. The NYT and the original puzzle ran concurrently for a number of months.

When the NYT bought the puzzle from its creator they went through the dictionary it used to remove 'contentious' words that might cause customers to complain. Words like penis or dyke were removed.

This meant the NYT Wordle and the original Wordle got out of synch at one point because the original selected a word the NYT dictionary had deleted.

I remember because I was on the original and DH was on NYT. First we had different answers, then the answer to his Wordle on Tuesday was the answer to mine on Wednesday so we had to stop comparing results.

Are you using the app? You can click the lightbulb icon and it tells you the meaning of the word and which dictionary the meaning is from.
The dictionary even says how the word is used in the UK.

It’s not that unusual a word - I’ve heard it used reasonably often in a particular context, which is one of the definitions in the OED.

Tracy Bennet is (or at least was) the game editor for NYT who checks the Wordle word each day for insensitivity, closeness to news items etc.

https://www.today.com/popculture/wordle-editor-tracy-bennett-interview-rcna64987?cid=sm_npd_td_fb_ma&fbclid=IwY2xjawNEe6RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFEempVRXl2ZDNWckxGQ1lhAR4DQdCf_NPNRiZo4slw_KMX2SdF-9ClBihgsXGbB_MVI6H7LyBEYUxP5hB09w_aem_q2OBGpfQ9_EPtSbC0idQOQ

I didn't think it was a real word but I got it in 4 by the juxtaposition of letters. I was surprised when it was allowed.

We use it in Australia the non-slur way. Quite a normal word in conversation for my family anyway.

Quite normal in my Canadian family as well. And a friend from India didn't find the word problematic today (he sometimes does).

This meme is old but it still makes me laugh

Thanks for this - she is great and it’s fascinating to hear how it works. For this one in particular I found the solution surprising but my 4th guess just seems too rare to count as a word. I’ll let Tracy off though now I know her!

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/wordle-past-answers

My sister has kept her own list of past answers from the beginning, which anyone could do, so I don’t see it as cheating to use one.

@RustyBearthanks for this your sister is a legend!
I think Tracy’s done well today 👌

@MidnightScroller This isn’t actually my sister’s list, I was just using her as an example of why I don’t think it’s cheating to use a list of past words - because anyone could have kept such a list.