Today’s Wordle Answer #654 – April 4, 2023 Solution And Hints

If you’re still unsure, the solution to today’s Wordle puzzle (#654 – April 4, 2023) is “ratio.” Merriam-Webster defines “ratio” as “the relationship in quantity, amount, or size between two or more things,” but in a mathematical sense, the meaning of the word is broader. In that sense, a ratio describes the quantity relation between two similar magnitudes, and is measured by the number of times one factor is divisible by the other.

Per Etymonline, “ratio” is from a Latin word of the same spelling, which originally meant “a reckoning, account, a numbering, or a calculation,” and in a transferred sense applied to mental action as reasoning or judgment. It’s derived from the root word “rat-,” the past-participle stem of “reri” which meant to calculate, reckon, think, or believe — itself from Proto-Indo-European root “re-,” “to think, reason, or count.”

In some Greek translations, “ratio” was often used to represent Greek “logos” since they both have similar meanings in the sense of computation or reason, but a lot is lost in translation because logos extends in meaning to “speech, word, or statement.”

We cracked the code in four tries today, with WordleBot’s favorite starting word, “slate,” as our first guess. It did pretty well wiping the board of potential answers, leaving only 64 possible guesses. After it, we tried “thing,” and that sized down the pool to eight words. Next, we guessed “odour,” and after that there was only one possible answer. We hope it takes you fewer tries to arrive at the answer.