Can you solve today’s Wordle puzzle for Feb. 12 quickly? Swiftly? Speedily? Those are all hints

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Today’s Wordle answer shouldn’t be too hard. It’s got some fairly common vowels and consonants (check our list to see which letters are used most often in English words.) If you need hints and the answer for today’s Wordle puzzle, read on.

Today’s Wordle hints

Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now.

Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats

Today’s Wordle answer has no repeated letters.

Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels

There are two vowels in today’s Wordle answer.

Wordle hint No. 3: Start letter

Today’s Wordle answer begins with the letter R.

Wordle hint No. 4: Water

Today’s Wordle answer can refer to a fast-flowing part of a river.

Wordle hint No. 5: Another meaning

Today’s Wordle answer can refer to something happening quickly.

TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER

Today’s Wordle answer is RAPID.

Yesterday’s Wordle answer

Yesterday’s Wordle answer, Feb. 11, No. 1333, was SCORE.

Recent Wordle answers

Feb. 7, No. 1329: SWATH

Feb. 8, No. 1330: STEEP

Feb. 9, No. 1331: BONUS

Feb. 10, No. 1332: GOODY

Will Wordle run out of words?

When Wordle began, creator Josh Wardle used a list of five-letter words he’d shared with his partner, picking only the words they recognized. While that’s more than 2,000 words, more than half of them have already been used.

Wordle editor Tracy Bennett admitted that the game will eventually have to come to grips with the fact that the word list is not eternal.

“One possibility is that we could recycle old words at some point, like when we get close to the end,” Bennett told a Wordle player on TikTok.

She also said the editors might throw all the words back in and reuse them, or allow plurals, or past tense, something that’s not done now.

Bennett hasn’t commented on it, but it seems possible Wordle could expand to six-letter words, too. Options abound.