Here is the Contexto answer today for the 1222 puzzle, released on January 22nd, 2026 and some hints to help you solve it.
There are many games that have been inspired by the viral word game Wordle with some of the more well-known games being Quordle, Globle, Heardle and Nerdle.
All of these games have their own unique twists to the original, where players will need to guess four words at a time, guess the country, guess the song or guess the mathematical equation of the day.
Another game that has caught our eye is Contexto. The aim of the game is to find the secret word of the day an artificial intelligence algorithm will tell you how close or similar the word you guessed is to the answer to help you solve it.
The secret number is number 1 and the words that are determined to be similar to the secret word will have a lower number. There are unlimited words you can guess, so you could be at it for a long time!
There is a new secret word every day and we will be here to give you hints and the answer to help you keep your winning streak!
Hints for the Contexto 1222 Answer Today – January 22nd, 2026
As the word can be quite difficult to solve, we have some hints for Contexto 1222 to help you to solve it, which are the following:
Hint 1: Here are some of the words that are similar to the secret word (with definitions), according to Contexto:
- The twentieth word in the list today is ‘MANTEL‘.
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a beam, stone, or arch serving as a lintel to support the masonry above a fireplace
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- The fifteenth word in the list today is ‘TIMEPIECE‘.
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an instrument, such as a clock or watch, for measuring time.
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- The tenth word in the list today is ‘QUARTZ‘.
- a hard mineral consisting of silica, found widely in igneous and metamorphic rocks and typically occurring as colourless or white hexagonal prisms.
- The seventh word in the list today is ‘DIAL‘.
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a face of a clock or watch that is marked to show units of time.
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- The fourth word in the list today is ‘PENDULUM’.
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a weight hung from a fixed point so that it can swing freely, especially a rod with a weight at the end that regulates the mechanism of a clock.
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- The second word in the list today (the closest word to the answer) is ‘SUNDIAL‘.
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an instrument showing the time by the shadow of a pointer cast by the sun on to a plate marked with the hours of the day.
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Hint 2: It starts with the letter H.
Hint 3: There are nine letters in the word today.
Hint 4: A timing device with two connected glass bulbs containing sand that takes an hour to pass from the upper to the lower bulb.
QUIZ: How many questions can you solve from the quiz below?
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What disappears as soon as you say its name?
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What 10 letter word starts with gas?
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If you pass the 2nd person in a race, what position are you in?
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What goes up and down, but never moves?
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
If you divide 30 by a half and add 10, what's the answer?
What on earth could dance, and live and die, without legs, or lungs, or being alive?
What is the Contexto 1222 Word Today? (Answer For January 22nd, 2026)
If you want to know the answer to Contexto 1222, it is…
HOURGLASS!
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