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It’s time for your guide to today’s Wordle answer, featuring my commentary on the latest puzzle, plus a selection of hints designed to help you keep your streak going.
Don’t think you need any clues for Wordle today? No problem, just skip to my daily column. But remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.
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: Today’s Wordle answer and hints 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 #900) – 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 #900) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is W.
W is a fairly average letter when it comes to starting an answer. There are 82 solutions that begin with a W, with means that it ranks 13th – so right in the middle of the alphabet.
Wordle hints (game #900) – 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 #900) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is N.
N is a pretty common ending letter in Wordle: it’s the seventh most likely in that position and features in 130 solutions.
Wordle hints (game #900) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #900.
- Today’s Wordle answer is DC’s Wonder.
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 #900)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #900) is… WOMAN.
Happy 900th birthday, Wordle! Yes, today marks another milestone for the world’s favorite five-letter word game – except it doesn’t really, because the first game was #0, so this is actually #901. I guess I should have marked the occasion yesterday then, but that would have been silly.
Anyway, it’s not a particularly notable Wordle for any reason other than that. WordleBot says it has an average score of 3.8 – so the same as yesterday’s puzzle (see below) and slightly below the norm. It’s potentially challenging, in that it contains (and starts with, no less) a W, which is only the 21st most common letter in the game, and also an M – not quite so low down the list, but still only 16th. But the other three letters are common, as is the word itself.
I suspect there’ll be a wide span of scores today, with plenty of 3s and 4s but maybe also some 5s in there. I could only manage a 4/6 myself, which I’m happy enough with in the circumstances.
It’s definitely not a game in which any of the best Wordle starting words made any real difference. Only one of the top 20, as reported by WordleBot, reduced the tally of remaining answers to fewer than 50. That was CRONE, and it still left a hefty 47 options. In contrast, my pick – STARE – left a massive pool of 185 solutions.
I therefore required a good second guess, and I knew where to turn for that: MADLY, which is what I generally play after getting a single yellow A on the opener. I used to alternate that with BADLY, but have now decided that MADLY performs better in this scenario. It definitely did today, giving me a yellow M to go with that still-yellow A and reducing the answers list to nine.
Did I have them all? Unfortunately not, but I did come up with five: HUMAN, AMONG, WOMAN, COMMA and AMINO. The others were apparently UNJAM, AXIOM, AMIGO and AMUCK.
Based on the words in my list, I decide to play AMONG next – it was guaranteed to give me the actual answer on the fourth guess even if it wasn’t itself correct. With a bit of luck I’d have scored a 3/6, but I didn’t get that today; with four letters turning yellow I was now sure what the answer was, but had to play WOMAN next turn for a 4/6.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #899)
In a different time zone where it’s still Tuesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #899, too.
- Wordle yesterday had 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).
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was Y.
Y is not a common starting letter at all. In fact, it’s the third least common ahead of only Z and X!
- There were no repeated letters in yesterday’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.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was G.
G is not a common letter to end a Wordle answer – in fact only 41 of Wordle’s 2,309 games finish with one.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #899.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer has not been around for long.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #899)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #899) was… YOUNG.
Y has a special status among all of the letters in the alphabet, when it comes to Wordle: it has the biggest difference between the number of times it appears at the start of an answer and the number of times it appears at the end.
Want proof? Among Wordle’s 2,309 original solutions, Y features at the end 364 times, behind only E. But it appears at the start a mere six times, ahead of only Z and X.
How is this relevant to the difficulty or otherwise of YOUNG as an answer? Well, it’s a letter that many people would only think to play when the format suggested that a Y-ending was likely – for instance if you had a green L in position four, because LY is a common ending combination (the third most likely overall, as it happens). A T or D in position #4 might suggest the same thing.
This wasn’t the case today, so it’s unlikely that many people will have stumbled across a yellow Y earlier in the game, then moved it to the start of the word. Instead, most will have had to take a different route to the answer – but that’s not that easy here, because O, U, N and G don’t feature in many of the best Wordle starting words.
Obviously some starter words do contain one or more of those letters – CRANE has an N, CRONE an O and N. But it’s not like having a T, R, E or A in there, in terms of commonality. This probably bumped up the overall average for the game, which WordleBot says stands at 3.8; not hard, but approaching the midway point for Wordle and more difficult than yesterday’s WORST or Sunday’s ADAPT.
My opening guess, STARE, doesn’t include any of YOUNG’s five letters, so I was left with a massive list of 318 possible answers for my second guess. And no, I did not try to list them all. Instead, I did what I always do after I’ve drawn a blank on the first guess, and played CLOUD next.
This worked pretty well, giving me yellow O and U and cutting 318 options down to eight – but my luck was about to get even better. I could only find two answers, BOUGH and YOUNG, so decided to go with the latter of those because it’s a more common word. And, of course, that proved to be a good hunch, because it was correct. But it could have been very different; if I’d have spent more time looking, maybe I’d have come up with one or more of JUMBO, BUXOM, UNION, UNBOX, GUMBO or FUNGO.
I’m pretty certain I would have dismissed some of these as unlikely, but I might have played the likes of UNION or UNBOX. Anyway, that’s irrelevant now, because I instead went with YOUNG and scored a rather fortunate 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 #899, Tuesday 5 December: YOUNG
- Wordle #898, Monday 4 December: WORST
- Wordle #897, Sunday 3 December: ADAPT
- Wordle #896, Saturday 2 December: GENRE
- Wordle #895, Friday 1 December: TAKEN
- Wordle #894, Thursday 30 November: RESIN
- Wordle #893, Wednesday 29 November: SUSHI
- Wordle #892, Tuesday 28 November: SCOPE
- Wordle #891, Monday 27 November: TAWNY
- Wordle #890, Sunday 26 November: SOLID
- Wordle #889, Saturday 25 November: GUIDE
- Wordle #888, Friday 24 November: THROW
- Wordle #887, Thursday 23 November: QUEEN
- Wordle #886, Wednesday 22 November: PIXEL
- Wordle #885, Tuesday 21 November: PIANO
- Wordle #884, Monday 20 November: CANDY
- Wordle #883, Sunday 19 November: QUEUE
- Wordle #882, Saturday 18 November: THINK
- Wordle #881, Friday 17 November: TARDY
- Wordle #880, Thursday 16 November: TRUST
- Wordle #879, Wednesday 15 November: SIGHT
- Wordle #878, Tuesday 14 November: SASSY
- Wordle #877, Monday 13 November: GREEN
- Wordle #876, Sunday 12 November: MEANT
- Wordle #875, Saturday 11 November: ACTOR
- Wordle #874, Friday 10 November: LEASH
- Wordle #873, Thursday 9 November: GLAZE
- Wordle #872, Wednesday 8 November: NINJA
- Wordle #871, Tuesday 7 November: LIMIT
- Wordle #870, Monday 6 November: TRADE
- Wordle #869, Sunday 5 November: FLARE
- Wordle #868, Saturday 4 November: MANIA
- Wordle #867, Friday 3 November: ARDOR
- Wordle #866, Thursday 2 November: UNTIL
- Wordle #865, Wednesday 1 November: NOISE
- Wordle #864, Tuesday 31 October: BLEAK
- Wordle #863, Monday 30 October: GRAIL
- Wordle #862, Sunday 29 October: PHONY
- Wordle #861, Saturday 28 October: MASON
- Wordle #860, Friday 27 October: NOBLE
- Wordle #859, Thursday 26 October: PIQUE
- Wordle #858, Wednesday 25 October: RETRY
- Wordle #857, Tuesday 24 October: CAUSE
- Wordle #856, Monday 23 October: TEMPO
- Wordle #855, Sunday 22 October: GIVEN
- Wordle #854, Saturday 21 October: SMIRK
- Wordle #853, Friday 20 October: OCCUR
- Wordle #852, Thursday 19 October: SPLAT
- Wordle #851, Wednesday 18 October: MERCY
- Wordle #850, Tuesday 17 October: ADULT
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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