Knowing the weekend is so close might make the hours feel longer than usual. To help you make time pass faster, get your thinking cap on and solve the Wordle answer for today, 11th July 2024.

For the uninitiated, the aim of Wordle is to work out a daily five-letter word within six guesses. The fewer the guesses, the better – and if you fail to guess it at all, you’ll break your streak.

The latter is why working out today’s Wordle answer is such a priority, as players pride themselves on keeping their streak going. So why gamble on a risky final guess when you can learn a few clues and, failing that, get the definitive answer? This page can help with that.

Once you have today’s word, learn more about Wordle and how the New York Times became interested in games in this interview with Jonathan Knight, Head of Games for the NYTimes. In keeping with the word theme, we’ve also discussed why The NYTimes Mini Crossword is a reliable joy.

Clues for today’s Wordle answer

Instead of going straight to the answer, you might only need a few hints to get you over the line:

• This word has two different vowels in it.
• The word has no repeating letters in it.
• Today’s word starts with ‘C’.
• We use this word to reference when an unexpected character appears in a game where they don’t come from originally.

Still not sure? Read on for the answer.

Wordle answer for word 1118 on 11th July 2024

Even with the above clues, still not sure and want to keep that streak going?

The Wordle answer today is CAMEO.

Today hasn’t been a good day when it comes to solving puzzles. For my first try, I went with ‘SQUAD’ followed by ‘ARBOR’. These two words indicated a couple of vowels present in the word but nothing about their position. I wanted to find at least a consonant, so I tried ‘LIGHT’ and ‘TOPIC’. Only in my last attempt with ‘CARRY’ that I land the first two letters correctly but it was already too late.

Now you have the answer, do not spoil it for others! Remember, you can share your results spoiler-free in the form of a grid.

Of course, no one has to know you came to this page to work it out. Maybe put in two or three fake guesses first to throw them off the scent, perhaps?

Today’s Wordle etymology

Before we would use ‘CAMEO’ to talk about when Spiderman appeared in The Revenge of the Shinobi, this term has a long tradition involving the work with precious stones. More espeficially, we find registers of the Medieval Latin word ‘CAMMAEUS’ which indicated the art of engraving precious stones.

The more common use of the word in current days of someone making a short appearance might started around 1928 when we find a connection with the idea of a small part or character that stands out.

Wordle past answers for this week

And now for our ‘Previously on Wordle’ segment! (I know ‘in’ works better, but let me have this…) Last week has seen the following words make appearance in Wordle so far:

• WEDNESDAY 10th July – GAUNT
• TUESDAY 9th July – BLARE
• MONDAY 8th July – SHAPE
• SUNDAY 7th July – CANON
• SATURDAY 6th July – SCOFF

If you’d like to know all of the words which has graced Wordle in times gone by, check out our past Wordle answers archive.

What to play after Wordle

With your daily Wordle completed, the question is – what shall you play now?

You can, of course, try out the other word-based games offered by the New York Times, like Spelling Bee, the Mini Crossword and Letter Boxed. You can also take a crack at Connections, the daily Sudokus and Tiles – a rather additive motif matching game.

There’s also a range of games which have put a twist on the Wordle formula. Squaredle challenges you to find a series of words by connecting letters in a four by four grid. Meanwhile Dordle, Quorodly, Octordly and Sedecordle all keep to the standard Wordle, while increasing the number of words you have to find. The challenge comes in how your guesses count for all of the words, so you need to decide whether you’re going to focus on a specific word or try to solve multiple words at the same time. Thankfully, the number of guesses you’re given increases alongside the amount of words you’re expected to solve.

If you want a break from spelling though, try GeoGuessr. Here you’ll be given a picture of somewhere, anywhere, in the world and have to place a marker on where you think that location is. There’s even an Old School RuneScape version.

Hope you enjoyed playing Wordle today!