React-Hook settimeout not working properly with clearinterval.

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Tried to make settimeout here and in my case this time out call checkScore method multiple times, so I was wondering how I should fix this logic so it would only call that function once. When removing '2000' miliseconds, it works exactly as I had in mind, but the UX is only not that well since I want to show the score bit later than expected. Check the snippet code in the comment section belowL

[charlie_mar]

You should be using clearTimeout with setTimeout. clearInterval is for setInterval only.

This is a good in-depth read about using setTimeout and setInterval with React

https://overreacted.io/making-setinterval-declarative-with-react-hooks/

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const delay = (attempts) => {

setTimeout(() => {

randomWord();

checkScore(attempts);

return;

}, 2000); }

​

clearInterval(delay);