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 #776) – clue #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has vowels in three 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 #777) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is A.
A is a reasonably common starting letter in Wordle: 140 games begin with this letter. It ranks 6th among starting letters, behind S, C, B, T and P.
Wordle hints (game #777) – 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 #777) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is E.
E is the most common letter to end a Wordle answer by far. That’s one of the reasons why many of the best start words, including SLATE, CRANE, CRATE and STARE, all end with one.
Wordle hints (game #777) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #777.
- Today’s Wordle answer is related to batteries.
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 #777)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #777) is… ANODE.
We’re still stuck below the 4.0 average – for the 12th game in the last 14th – but today’s puzzle is at least a little harder than the previous couple. ANODE has an average score of 3.8, according to WordleBot, and it’s certainly a more obscure word than the likes of CHART or PARTY.
The fact that it does have a lowish score is most likely due to two factors.
The first, which applies to everyone, is that it uses five common letters with no repeats. D is the only one of the letters outside the top 10 by frequency in Wordle, and at 13th it’s not exactly uncommon, either. A is a reasonably common letter to start an answer, and E is the most common to end one.
The other factor is that a couple of widely used starting words, ADIEU and AUDIO, both helped greatly today. I generally don’t recommend playing either of these, as they are not mathematically among the best Wordle starting words. As proof of that, WordleBot gives each starting word a skill rating based on how many solutions it eliminates on average, and ADIEU (at 80/99) and AUDIO (79) are way off the top performers; my STARE rates a 97 and WordleBot’s favored SLATE is at 99.
However, every dog has its day, and here ADIEU reduced the possible solutions list to just four, while AUDIO left seven. CRANE (8) was the only one of the best options in the same range.
STARE left me with 46 possibles, so to narrow things down on my second guess I left out the already-green E. This enabled me to play an extra consonant, so I was giving up the chance of a 2/6 in favor of a higher probability of getting a 3/6.
And that’s how it played out: ALIGN confirmed the A at the start of the answer and gave me a yellow N. Remarkably, it also left me with just one possible solution, ANODE. It took me a while to find it, admittedly – it’s not the sort of term you use every day – but I got there in the end and played it next for a 3/6.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #776)
In a different time zone where it’s still Friday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #776, too.
- Wordle yesterday had a vowel in one place.
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was C.
- There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was T.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a map or graph.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #776)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #776) was… CHART.
This is all getting a little silly now. I don’t know whether the NYT is actively curating games or simply letting answers play out in the order in which Josh Wardle originally set them up, but I think we’ve now reached the stage where it should take an active role in switching things up.
In the past 13 games, only two Wordle answers have had an average score of above 4.0, the figure above which things start to get slightly harder. Five of those 13 games have been below 3.5. Today’s is at just 3.3, only slightly higher than yesterday’s 3.2!
If the games are random, then fine, that’s just the way it goes. But it sure does make for a slightly dull experience.
Today, I scored another 2/6 – my fourth in those 13 games. And today, that owed a lot to my choice of the best Wordle starting words.
STARE, which has long been my pick, left me just four possible solutions to choose from. And that wasn’t even the best of them – far from it. CARTE and CARET were at two. TRACE and CRATE left just one!
If you didn’t begin with one of those, maybe it was a little tougher – but probably not much. Four of the letters are very common, although H is a bit less so. Even there, though, it’s often paired with the C, so once you had one you’ll have had an advantage in finding the other. There are no repeated letters. No letters in unusual places. No uncommon letters such as Q or Z. And the word itself is far more widely used than something like BEGET.
I was left with a choice of CHART, APART, QUART and TIARA. I had a vague recollection that TIARA and QUART might have been past Wordle answers (they have) so focused on CHART and APART. I picked the former purely because it didn’t contain a (less common) repeated letter and scored my latest 2/6 in what has been a very easy run. Fingers crossed for a harder weekend.
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 #776, Friday 4 August: CHART
- Wordle #775, Thursday 3 August: PARTY
- Wordle #774, Wednesday 2 August: BEGET
- Wordle #773, Tuesday 1 August: TENTH
- Wordle #772, Monday 31 July: STYLE
- Wordle #771, Sunday 30 July: BATHE
- Wordle #770, Saturday 29 July: CURLY
- Wordle #769, Friday 28 July: ETHOS
- Wordle #768, Thursday 27 July: DISCO
- Wordle #767, Wednesday 26 July: HEART
- Wordle #766, Tuesday 25 July: WHEEL
- Wordle #765, Monday 24 July: HOBBY
- Wordle #764, Sunday 23 July: WHALE
- Wordle #763, Saturday 22 July: FROZE
- Wordle #762, Friday 21 July: BURLY
- Wordle #761, Thursday 20 July: FLANK
- Wordle #760, Wednesday 19 July: TONIC
- Wordle #759, Tuesday 18 July: FLYER
- Wordle #758, Monday 17 July: DROOP
- Wordle #757, Sunday 16 July: TOPAZ
- Wordle #756, Saturday 15 July: CRONE
- Wordle #755, Friday 14 July: FIEND
- Wordle #754, Thursday 13 July: BARGE
- Wordle #753, Wednesday 12 July: WHIRL
- Wordle #752, Tuesday 11 July: EARTH
- Wordle #751, Monday 10 July: FOLLY
- Wordle #750, Sunday 9 July: ENTER
- Wordle #749, Saturday 8 July: COWER
- Wordle #748, Friday 7 July: DONUT
- Wordle #747, Thursday 6 July: WINDY
- Wordle #746, Wednesday 5 July: VENOM
- Wordle #745, Tuesday 4 July: IRATE
- Wordle #744, Monday 3 July: HOTEL
- Wordle #743, Sunday 2 July: MOSSY
- Wordle #742, Saturday 1 July: BLEEP
- Wordle #741, Friday 30 June: STRAW
- Wordle #740, Thursday 29 June: DINER
- Wordle #739, Wednesday 28 June: TRACT
- Wordle #738, Tuesday 27 June: ABOUT
- Wordle #737, Monday 26 June: GUEST
- Wordle #736, Sunday 25 June: RODEO
- Wordle #735, Saturday 24 June: GRAND
- Wordle #734, Friday 23 June: COVET
- 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
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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