Wordles

Part of speech: noun, verb

Definitions

1. Multiple instances or rounds of the popular word-puzzle game in which players guess a five-letter word within six attempts
2. Several games of the daily word-guessing challenge where players receive feedback on letter positions through colored tiles
3. Plural games of the viral puzzle that tasks solvers with identifying a secret five-letter word using deductive reasoning and letter clues

Etymology: "Wordles" is the plural of "wordle," a noun that has no established origin that can be traced with confidence. Its formation as a plural simply follows the regular English pattern of adding "-s" to a countable noun. The word "wordle" itself became widely known as the name of an online word-guessing game, which is the sense most readers will recognise. Its exact origin as a coinage is not documented, so the most that can be said is that the form appears to be a newer creation, built on the familiar English noun "word" with an added ending. Any more specific claim about where the word came from would go beyond what can be confirmed.