It’s time for your daily round of Wordle hints, expertly crafted to help you keep your streak going even on the toughest of days.
You might think that you don’t need any clues for Wordle today, but remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.
Below, you’ll find a selection of Wordle hints to guide you in the right direction. You don’t have to use them all, but there are five in total should you need them, covering vowels, starting letter, ending letter and more. And if you don’t have time to play at all, you can see the answer, too.
Want more word-based fun? My Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that game, which remains the best of all the main Wordle alternatives.
SPOILER WARNING: Wordle hints and today’s answer are below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to see them.
Marc is TechRadar’s UK Editor in Chief and has been playing Wordle for more than a year. He’s authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar and its sister site Tom’s Guide, including a detailed analysis of the most common letters in every position. His Wordle streak just reached the 500 mark and he’ll be inconsolable if he loses it. Yes, he takes it all too seriously.
Wordle hints (game #734) – clue #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has vowels in two places*.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
Wordle hints (game #734) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is C.
C is a very common starting letter in Wordle – in fact, it’s the second most common of all, behind only S.
Wordle hints (game #734) – clue #3 – repeated letters
Does today’s Wordle have any repeated letters?
• There are no repeated letters in today’s Wordle.
Repeated letters are quite common in the game, with 748 of the 2,309 Wordle answers containing one. However, it’s still more likely that a Wordle doesn’t have one.
Wordle hints (game #734) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is T.
T is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – in fact only E and Y are more likely in that position.
Wordle hints (game #734) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #734.
- Today’s Wordle answer really wants something.
If you just want to know today’s Wordle answer now, simply scroll down – but I’d always recommend trying to solve it on your own first. We’ve got lots of Wordle tips and tricks to help you, including a guide to the best Wordle start words.
If you don’t want to know today’s answer then DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER BECAUSE IT IS PRINTED BELOW. So don’t say you weren’t warned!
Today’s Wordle answer (game #734)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #734) is… COVET.
I wouldn’t describe today’s answer as the most difficult we’ve ever had, but I don’t suspect there will be many 2/6s today (and almost certainly no 1/6s unless people cheat).
For a start, it contains a V in the middle; V is the fifth least common letter in the Wordle alphabet, ahead of only Z, X, Q and J, so I wouldn’t imagine it would feature in too many starting words.
Plus, COVET is not the most obvious word in the world. Sure, it’s a perfectly acceptable addition to the Wordle lexicography, but it’s not a common term in the way that TASTE or CRANE or FROST are. I will allow that it is a fair bit more common a word than KAZOO, though!
As always, I coveted a great score, but I didn’t quite get it today; I had to settle for a 4/6, only slightly ahead of the 4.1 that WordleBot says was the average across everyone that played it. Frankly, I can’t see how I could have done it in fewer guesses – well, not without a lot of luck.
As always, I started with STARE, my long-time favorite among the best Wordle starting words. This gave me a yellow T and a yellow E, which seemed decent enough, but when I began looking at options I realized there were a LOT to pick from. WordleBot said there were 90 of them, although I didn’t identify that many myself. But I had a few dozen; enough to know that I wasn’t going to be scoring a 2/6 at any rate.
The sensible thing to do was work out where the T and E went while adding another vowel and some more common consonants. I decided to go with TONED, because I thought T would be most likely at the start. That was silly, though, because T is actually more common at the end of a Wordle answer – something I’m well aware of having played this game for about 18 months now.
Still, TONED did give me a green O and placed the E too. Plus, I now knew the T could only go in one of two positions, the middle or the end.
According to WordleBot, I now had four remaining options: HOTEL, MOTEL, HOLIDAY INN, COVET and COMET. I only found three of these, though, missing the last one, and therefore decided that MOTEL was the best choice for my third guess. I was wrong about it being the answer, but it did the trick, ruling out COMET without me even knowing about it and leaving me with just COVET left. So, a 4/6 on a fairly tough day.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #733)
In a different time zone where it’s still Thursday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #733, too.
- Wordle yesterday had vowels in two places.
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was T.
- There was one repeated letter in yesterday’s Wordle.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was E.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a sense.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #733)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #733) was… TASTE.
This Wordle word might look quite easy, but really it’s not. WordleBot, the NYT’s occasionally insightful AI helper tool, says people are solving it in an average of 4.3 guesses, which places it way above the 3.5 figure we’ve had for previous past two days.
Why so high? Well, this is one of our favorite types of Wordle answer – the too-many-options variety!
Is it PASTE? Is it HASTE? WASTE? BASTE? CASTE? No, it’s TASTE! But you might easily have found yourself guessing blindly in search of that first letter, only for it to be the one you least expected (or possibly missed), because it’s a repeated T.
And that’s assuming you had the -ASTE format. The likes of TEASE, STEAM and SLATE were all common guesses today, on account of including four of the same letters.
Against that, some of the best Wordle starting words helped greatly today, including my choice, STARE. That left me with just the six possible solutions above, and it was the same story for anyone who began by playing SLATE. TRACE was even better – just three options there – while CARTE and CRATE (nine each) weren’t too bad either.
The challenge for most people, then, was identifying which first letter went with the -ASTE part of the word. I decided not to blindly guess, after my harrowing experience with CRANE yesterday (see below) and instead played THUMP. This could have left me a 50/50 in the worst-case scenario; if the T didn’t turn green and the H and P stayed gray, I’d have to pick between CASTE and BASTE. Why not also WASTE? Because I (genuinely) recalled that being a past Wordle answer, from about a year ago (game #428).
As it happened, I didn’t need to choose between anything on my third guess, because the T turned green. That meant TASTE had to be the answer and I duly took my 3/6.
Wordle answers: The past 50
I’ve been playing Wordle every day for more than a year now and have tracked all of the previous answers so I can help you improve your game. Here are the last 50 solutions starting with yesterday’s answer, or check out my past Wordle answers page for the full list.
- Wordle #733, Thursday 22 June: TASTE
- Wordle #732, Wednesday 21 June: CRANE
- Wordle #731, Tuesday 20 June: FROST
- Wordle #730, Monday 19 June: KAZOO
- Wordle #729, Sunday 18 June: SHYLY
- Wordle #728, Saturday 17 June: RANCH
- Wordle #727, Friday 16 June: STRAP
- Wordle #726, Thursday 15 June: MAYBE
- Wordle #725, Wednesday 14 June: CRIME
- Wordle #724, Tuesday 13 June: PLUNK
- Wordle #723, Monday 12 June: WRONG
- Wordle #722, Sunday 11 June: GUARD
- Wordle #721, Saturday 10 June: AGAIN
- Wordle #720, Friday 9 June: BALSA
- Wordle #719, Thursday 8 June: CRUMB
- Wordle #718, Wednesday 7 June: HATER
- Wordle #717, Tuesday 6 June: SCOUT
- Wordle #716, Monday 5 June: ENNUI
- Wordle #715, Sunday 4 June: BEAST
- Wordle #714, Saturday 3 June: NANNY
- Wordle #713, Friday 2 June: HUMID
- Wordle #712, Thursday 1 June: JAZZY
- Wordle #711, Wednesday 31 May: AGILE
- Wordle #710, Tuesday 30 May: KNEEL
- Wordle #709, Monday 29 May: MOUSE
- Wordle #708, Sunday 28 May: SKIMP
- Wordle #707, Saturday 27 May: RAMEN
- Wordle #706, Friday 26 May: SWINE
- Wordle #705, Thursday 25 May: BAGEL
- Wordle #704, Wednesday 24 May: UTTER
- Wordle #703, Tuesday 23 May: CLERK
- Wordle #702, Monday 22 May: IGLOO
- Wordle #701, Sunday 21 May: BRASH
- Wordle #700, Saturday 20 May: FLASK
- Wordle #699, Friday 19 May: GRIEF
- Wordle #698, Thursday 18 May: SHORN
- Wordle #697, Wednesday 17 May: PLANK
- Wordle #696, Tuesday 16 May: LATTE
- Wordle #695, Monday 15 May: CANOE
- Wordle #694, Sunday 14 May: SCARF
- Wordle #693, Saturday 13 May: ACRID
- Wordle #692, Friday 12 May: SNACK
- Wordle #691, Thursday 11 May: BROOM
- Wordle #690, Wednesday 10 May: ETHIC
- Wordle #689, Tuesday 9 May: COCOA
- Wordle #688, Monday 8 May: AGLOW
- Wordle #687, Sunday 7 May: GHOUL
- Wordle #686, Saturday 6 May: ANGER
- Wordle #685, Friday 5 May: BELOW
What is Wordle?
If you’re on this page then you almost certainly know what Wordle is already, and indeed have probably been playing it for a while. And even if you’ve not been playing it, you must surely have heard of it by now, because it’s the viral word game phenomenon that took the world by storm last year and is still going strong in 2023.
We’ve got a full guide to the game in our What is Wordle page, but if you just want a refresher then here are the basics.
What is Wordle?
Wordle challenges you to guess a new five-letter word each day. You get six guesses, with each one revealing a little more information. If one of the letters in your guess is in the answer and in the right place, it turns green. If it’s in the answer but in the wrong place, it turns yellow. And if it’s not in the answer at all it turns gray. Simple, eh?
It’s played online via the Wordle website or the New York Times’ Crossword app (iOS / Android), and is entirely free.
Crucially, the answer is the same for everyone each day, meaning that you’re competing against the rest of the world, rather than just against yourself or the game. The puzzle then resets each day at midnight in your local time, giving you a new challenge, and the chance to extend your streak.
What are the Wordle rules?
The rules of Wordle are pretty straightforward, but with a couple of curveballs thrown in for good measure.
1. Letters that are in the answer and in the right place turn green.
2. Letters that are in the answer but in the wrong place turn yellow.
3. Letters that are not in the answer turn gray.
4. Answers are never plural.
5. Letters can appear more than once. So if your guess includes two of one letter, they may both turn yellow, both turn green, or one could be yellow and the other green.
6. Each guess must be a valid word in Wordle’s dictionary. You can’t guess ABCDE, for instance.
7. You do not have to include correct letters in subsequent guesses unless you play on Hard mode.
8. You have six guesses to solve the Wordle.
9. You must complete the daily Wordle before midnight in your timezone.
10. All answers are drawn from Wordle’s list of 2,309 solutions. However…
11. Wordle will accept a wider pool of words as guesses – some 10,000 of them. For instance, you can guess a plural such as WORDS. It definitely won’t be right (see point 4 above), but Wordle will accept it as a guess.
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