Wordle #573
Wordle Answer — Thursday, January 8, 2026
The answer was a 5-letter noun/verb
B
L
A
S
T
Definition
BLASTnoun/verb
A strong gust of wind or an explosive burst of air, sound, or energy; or, as a verb, to blow up or destroy with an explosive force.
The blast from the quarry shook windows in houses half a mile away.
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BLAST is a fairly accessible Wordle word due to its common letters, but the consonant cluster BL at the start can trip up players who don't think to pair B with L early on. The ending -AST is shared with many other words like MAST, LAST, CAST, and PAST, which can lead to wasted guesses cycling through those alternatives before landing on the correct starting letters.
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