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?

Oh come on. Don't be stupid enough to look at a thread like this unless you have completed the puzzle!

Interesting to see Tracy Bennett! And there was an actress with same name years ago.

@MidnightScroller I couldnt complete the puzzle! what was the word??

I cheat all the time.
I have no patience.

I don't have much patience either.

I have a couple of starter words I rotate through. Sometimes after my thrid failed attempt I just randomly put them in to see what the word was. Then I say I got it in 7.

Sorry for the delayed response. Correct answer was Fritz!! And my 4th guess which I didn’t expect to be accepted as a word but was, was Fritt!!! Too random in my book, however bearing in mind it’s American and having read about Tracey Bennet, I’ve made peace with it 😆

I think Wordle uses its own curated answer list rather than relying entirely on the Oxford dictionary. There have been a few cases where accepted guesses or answers don't perfectly match other dictionaries, so it could simply be a difference in the word list rather than a bug.

Today's word was an odd one! I got it at the last try, but it was not easy.

Today's was a very odd one. I beat you by one, but I was typing and thinking "this isn't a word" at the same time

I thought this thread was about today too. There have been a couple of very obscure words in the last week and I’m starting to wonder if it’s now being curated by AI rather than a human. Tracy Bennett’s name is still there.

Same here. Not an obvious one!

Never heard of today’s word!

It's very American. I only know it from stuff like Little House on the Prairie

I knew today’s word (I think from little house on the prairie), but it took me a looong time to get it

Same.

When it gets to the point of typing in every last remaining letter to end the letters in green in the hope that one combination is acceptable I lose interest & feel as though a toddler tantrum is acceptable

I have no idea what that word means. I typed in the last letter in desperation.

Why is it offensive? My google-fu is failing.

If you're talking about the p word, it is an old-fashioned expression apparently coined by the Brits in the 1600s for scoffing. It's still common in the US amongst old-fashioned folk and there are plenty. Plus, many girls read the Little House books.

according to Google:
What is the earliest known use of the verb pshaw? The earliest known use of the verb pshaw is in the mid 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for pshaw is from 1760, in the writing of Laurence Sterne, writer and Church of England clergyman. It is also recorded as an interjection from the early 1600s.

US English went through a long period of stagnation from the Revolution to WWI. There are lots of words, pronunciations and spellings which are originally British and did not change. PPs mention -our vs -or (e.g. honor) and US spellings are the original British ones which are the same as the original Latin ones.

Nobody said it was offensive,just an odd word.

I didn't realise this thread was originally from Sept 2025, so the original word being discussed was called a slur. I didn't realise until after I posted that there were multiple words being discussed and the original slur word was long past

MT563 no problem. Today's word was a bit weird too!

Yeah I’m going to google it

Yeah pshaw is a ridiculous word that’s not a word!

Is today’s word an English word ?