Wordle Answer for August 20, 2025

Players who opened Wordle on August 20, 2025 were trying to land on LLAMA. We've kept the day's hints around so you can revisit them — or use the archive to settle a debate about a tricky past puzzle.

The answer

LLAMA

What llama means

A domesticated South American animal with a long neck, woolly coat, and slender body, related to camels and commonly raised for wool, meat, and as a pack animal.

Where the word comes from

The word llama comes from Spanish, which borrowed it from Quechua, the language of the Inca Empire and still spoken in the Andes. The Quechua term is llama, referring to the domesticated South American animal. Spanish conquistadors and colonizers encountered these animals in Peru and adopted the indigenous word into their language, from which English later borrowed it.

Hints for August 20, 2025

Each row is the starting word our algorithm picks for that turn count, with the tiles Wordle would have shown in response.

Solve in 2 turnsulama
Solve in 3 turnsalamo
Solve in 4 turnsalarm
Solve in 5 turnssmall
Solve in 6 turnsmalls

Synonyms of llama

  • sludge
  • feeble
  • lama
  • mud
  • dalai
  • llamanaco
  • lamoid
  • llamoid

Used in a sentence

The farmer brought her _____ to the county fair where it won a blue ribbon for its thick, woolly coat.

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