Today's Wordle Hints & Answer - March 17, 2024 (Puzzle #1002)

March 17’s answer isn’t particularly hard to decipher if you use strategic starting words that contain a vowel. While it can be tough to guess the answer in six attempts, using some hints or one of our suggested starting words can make it easy. The main goal today is to figure out the correct positions of at least three letters in your first few attempts.

To achieve that goal, we recommend using ’s hard mode, which is much more suited for solving today’s answer. This mode will not let you reuse confirmed letters in random spots, preventing you from using guesses that could cause you to lose your streak. However, if you use this mode in tandem with hints or our recommended starting words, you should be able to solve it quickly.

If you haven’t started today’s yet, we recommend using some starting words that will give you an edge. These words will let you discover the correct positions of a few letters and find some vowels/consonants. To make it slightly challenging, one of the words will have significantly less in common with the answer, while one might let you solve it in your next attempt.

Using the best starting words and combos can make all the difference; however, the suggestions below are only relevant to today’s answer:

TEARS:

STORE

SPORT

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Using hints to solve answers works similarly to using clues for other vocabulary puzzle games such as Crosswords. Hence, the hints provided below do not spoil the answer and only give a fair idea so you can still solve the puzzle independently. Here are four hints that will help solve March 17’s answer:

Hint 1

There are no repeating letters.

Hint 2

The answer is used as a verb and a noun.

Hint 3

The vowel is in the 3rd position.

Hint 4

Make a sudden explosive sound through one's nose.

While the easy starting words will let you discover the correct positions of four letters, you might be on your last attempt and