Today, I explain my beef with Wordle using IDLER as an answer.
Knowledge Waits is a feature where I just share some bit of pop culture history that interests me that doesn’t quite fit into the other features.
The Wordle answer for April 30th was “IDLER.”
Here are all of the past Wordle answers ending in ER.
AFTER
ALTER
AMBER
ANGER
BAKER
BOXER
CAPER
CATER
CHEER
CIDER
CORER
COVER
COWER
CYBER
DETER
DINER
DRYER
ELDER
EMBER
ENTER
ETHER
FEVER
FEWER
FIBER
FINER
FIXER
FLYER
FOYER
GAMER
GONER
HATER
HOMER
HOVER
HYPER
INFER
INNER
INTER
JOKER
LAGER
LASER
LAYER
LINER
LIVER
LOSER
LOVER
LOWER
METER
MINER
NEVER
NICER
OLDER
ORDER
OTHER
OTTER
OUTER
OWNER
PAPER
PARER
PIPER
POKER
POWER
REFER
RIDER
RIPER
ROVER
ROWER
RUDER
SEVER
SKIER
SOWER
SUPER
SURER
TAPER
TIGER
TIMER
UDDER
ULCER
UNDER
UPPER
USHER
UTTER
VOTER
WOOER
As you can see, for the most part, any time they’ve gone with an ER ending word, it was a word that was notable on its own, not as “person who does X” addition to the word. POKER is probably MORE well-known as a word than POKE. And words like TIGER AND UNDER and CHEER are just normal words ending with ER.
The problem is when you add ER to a word to make a NON-notable word. IDLE is a common word, IDLER is not.
I think, of the above words, the only one as bad is CORER, and I think IDLER is even worse than CORER.
Not a big deal, of course, but it irked me.
