What does ‘homer’ mean?...

A GREAT way to kick off your day is by completing Wordle - the New York Times puzzle challenging people to guess a five letter word.

On May 5, 2022, Wordle struck again with a difficult word - so what does "homer" actually mean?

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The puzzle on May 5, 2022, was tough to guess - but not for baseball fans.

The Wordle answer is "homer" - and no, it does not refer to Homer Simpson.

In baseball, a homer is a home run.

For those who are not familiar with the sport - especially since most of its popularity is in the United States - a home run is when the batter hits the ball so far away that he manages to run around the whole circle of the field.

The hitter has to reach back to his home position in one play without the other team committing any errors.

If you do not watch the popular US sport, you might have struggled to guess the puzzle, although it's also a term used by pigeon fanciers.

A homer refers to a homing pigeon.

Many Brits took on Twitter to share their first Wordle fail - with some joking that they will never play it again, even though they know they'll be back tomorrow.

Some others joked that they got done dirty by the New York Times' iconic word puzzle.

In Greek, Homer is a name that means hostage.

Homer is the English form of the name, as in Greek it is actually homêros.

It's the name of the famous Greek poet who wrote great works such as the Iliad and the Odyssey.

It used to be a popular name but it's not commonly found anymore.

In 2021, Homer was ranked at 8,519 to be the most popular name in the world, as it went down by 1,776 places from 2020.

It was more popular back in the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.

It can also be a surname to a few.

An example is Winslow Homer, who is considered the greatest American painter of the nineteenth century.

His paintings are mostly about the Civil War and the impacts that it left on the soldiers, the community and the rest of the world.