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, and you can also take a look at my NYT Strands today and NYT Connections today pages for my verdict on two of the New York Times’ other brainteasers.
SPOILER WARNING: Today’s Wordle answer and hints are below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to see them.
Wordle hints (game #1119) – clue #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has a vowel in one place*.
* 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 #1119) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is J.
J is the least common letter overall in Wordle, but is only the fourth least likely starting letter. That’s because it begins 20 out of the 27 answers it appears in (Y, Z and X are all less common starting letters).
Wordle hints (game #1119) – clue #3 – repeated letters
Does today’s Wordle have any repeated letters?
• There are 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 #1119) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is Y.
Y is the second most common ending letter in the game, behind only E. In total, 364 Wordle answers end with a Y.
Wordle hints (game #1119) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1119.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a short period of time.
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 #1119)
- NYT average score: 4.9
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 5
- Best start word performance*: TRICE (126 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: SCREW (539)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1119) is… JIFFY.
Well, well, well, what do we have here then? By the looks of it, it’s the equal seventh hardest Wordle of 2024 so far, that’s what. WordleBot says it currently has an average score of 4.9 and while it’s early days yet, I’m not remotely surprised by that. That figure puts it behind only JOLLY (5.4), PIPER (5.2), HUNCH (5.1), HITCH (5.1), ROVER (5.0) and JERKY (5.0), and level with FROZE (4.9) and SHAVE (4.9).
That rogue’s gallery of Wordles should give you an idea of why JIFFY is proving so difficult to solve. Namely that as with almost every single one of them, it contains one of two complications: an uncommon letter or a repeated letter.
In JIFFY’s case, though, it has both of these problems. We’ll begin with the J, because it begins the answer. As my analysis of every Wordle answer shows, J appears in only 27 of the game’s 2,309 original solutions, meaning that’s it’s less common than every other letter in the game; Q turns up 29 times, X appears 37 times and Z is in 40.
It has its J in common with JOLLY, the hardest game of the year so far, and the horrible JERKY, and with the earlier JAZZY and JOKER (5.5 and 5.4 respectively). In fact, of the 830 Wordles I have an average score for, it’s only once been in a game that was lower than 4.0 (JOUST, a 3.8 in 2022). The next lowest is EJECT (4.4), followed by ENJOY and NINJA (both 4.6) and then today’s game.
So the inclusion of a J is pretty much a guarantee of increased difficulty, and if you then throw in the repeated F too you can see why it’s proving to be so tricky. F is a middling letter in terms of repeats, ranking 11th in this regard, but it only appears twice in 22 answers, so it’s still incredibly uncommon.
If you want me to toss a third complication into the mix, I’ll gladly oblige: start words were an absolute disaster today. Of WordleBot’s top 20, TRICE was the winner, reducing the options list to a mere… um… 126. But CRANE left 356, SLATE left 314 and STARE left 321, so there were far worse choices than that.
Or, indeed, you could have been saddled with SCREW, as I was. This drew a blank and left 539 answers, so of course I needed to follow that up by playing the most common remaining letters in order to get my game back on track. My choice was TALON – which WordleBot said was “terrific” – and it gave me absolutely no yellows or greens once again.
Ten letters down, no letters found. Surely the third guess would be better? Well, to an extent. I (correctly) predicted that the word would probably end with a Y, and that it would most likely contain a repeated letter (which is always likely when the letter pool has been reduced to this extent). I drew up a shortlist that included the likes of FUZZY, BUGGY, BUZZY, GUMMY, YUMMY, BUDDY, BUMPY, JUMPY, DUMPY, DIZZY, PUPPY, DUMMY and a few more. It wasn’t definitive, by any means, but it gave me enough info to know that DUMPY would be a good choice.
And indeed it was – though I didn’t realize that at first. As I played it, the first letter turned over and stayed gray. Then the second. Then the third. Then the fourth. Panic! Then, finally the Y turned green to confirm my hunch.
I thought I might still have quite a few options left, but I could only find two: JIFFY and FIZZY. So what I had here was a choice between a word that contained one uncommon letter and a word that contained two… so of course I went for the first option. WordleBot said it would have gone the other way, which is why it could only score a five today, but I was able to play JIFFY and walk away relatively unscathed with a four. I’ll take that.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1118)
In a different time zone where it’s still Thursday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1118, too.
- Wordle yesterday had 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).
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was C.
C is a very common starting letter in Wordle – in fact, it’s the second most common of all, behind only S.
- 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 O.
O is a middling ending letter. It ranks 12th in this regard, and finishes 58 Wordle answers in total.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1118.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a guest appearance.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1118)
- NYT average score: 4.0
- My score: 2
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- Best start word performance*: CARET, CARTE (10 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: MACHO (1)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1118) was… CAMEO.
“MACHO is a decent opening word, and a distinctive one! (Today it was played by less than 0.1% of players.) And it was extraordinarily lucky today.” So said WordleBot when I fired up the NYT games app today, and I’m not about to disagree with it. MACHO, my random start word, left only a single answer today – meaning I scored an extremely welcome 2/6, a day after the ignominy of getting a six with GAUNT the day before.
It’s hard for me to judge the overall difficult for CAMEO, because my game was so straightforward that there was literally zero skill involved in it. I suppose maybe you could say I still had to spot that CAMEO was the solution – but that was ultimately a matter of trial and error. There was no real brainpower needed.
I do have WordleBot’s average score, of course, and that currently sits at 4.0, implying that it’s around about standard for the game, maybe a little harder. But at the time of writing only a few thousand people have played, so that score may well come down over the course of the day.
One thing that may ultimately make it easier is that it contains three vowels; words with more vowels generally take fewer guesses to solve than those with more consonants. On days like these AUDIO, the second most popular start word in the game, can often come up trumps and so it proved, cutting the answers list to 19. But CARTE and CARET, two of WordleBot’s favorites, beat that by leaving only 10 solutions.
And then of course there was my MACHO: it left just the one word, CAMEO, so I played it with delight for my second 2/6 in two weeks.
Wordle answers: The past 50
I’ve been playing Wordle every day for more than two years 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 #1118, Thursday 11 July: CAMEO
- Wordle #1117, Wednesday 10 July: GAUNT
- Wordle #1116, Tuesday 9 July: BLARE
- Wordle #1115, Monday 8 July: SHAPE
- Wordle #1114, Sunday 7 July: CANON
- Wordle #1113, Saturday 6 July: SCOFF
- Wordle #1112, Friday 5 July: CRUSH
- Wordle #1111, Thursday 4 July: DEBUT
- Wordle #1110, Wednesday 3 July: THIGH
- Wordle #1109, Tuesday 2 July: INLAY
- Wordle #1108, Monday 1 July: ADAGE
- Wordle #1107, Sunday 30 June: BUDDY
- Wordle #1106, Saturday 29 June: ZEBRA
- Wordle #1105, Friday 28 June: DROVE
- Wordle #1104, Thursday 27 June: ORDER
- Wordle #1103, Wednesday 26 June: KNEAD
- Wordle #1102, Tuesday 25 June: SAVOR
- Wordle #1101, Monday 24 June: DOLLY
- Wordle #1100, Sunday 23 June: BUGLE
- Wordle #1099, Saturday 22 June: EDICT
- Wordle #1098, Friday 21 June: PAINT
- Wordle #1097, Thursday 20 June: SCENT
- Wordle #1096, Wednesday 19 June: TERSE
- Wordle #1095, Tuesday 18 June: COVER
- Wordle #1094, Monday 17 June: PRIOR
- Wordle #1093, Sunday 16 June: GRIND
- Wordle #1092, Saturday 15 June: PROUD
- Wordle #1091, Friday 14 June: VAULT
- Wordle #1090, Thursday 13 June: ANGST
- Wordle #1089, Wednesday 12 June: DETER
- Wordle #1088, Tuesday 11 June: SWUNG
- Wordle #1087, Monday 10 June: MANGA
- Wordle #1086, Sunday 9 June: CROWD
- Wordle #1085, Saturday 8 June: HENCE
- Wordle #1084, Friday 7 June: MELON
- Wordle #1083, Thursday 6 June: ETHER
- Wordle #1082, Wednesday 5 June: ORGAN
- Wordle #1081, Tuesday 4 June: GROOM
- Wordle #1080, Monday 3 June: STARK
- Wordle #1079, Sunday 2 June: BRAVO
- Wordle #1078, Saturday 1 June: BASIN
- Wordle #1077, Friday 31 May: CHAOS
- Wordle #1076, Thursday 30 May: GUMMY
- Wordle #1075, Wednesday 29 May: PAPAL
- Wordle #1074, Tuesday 28 May: MINUS
- Wordle #1073, Monday 27 May: SKIER
- Wordle #1072, Sunday 26 May: BEVEL
- Wordle #1071, Saturday 25 May: TITAN
- Wordle #1070, Friday 24 May: GLIDE
- Wordle #1069, Thursday 23 May: SWISH
- Wordle #1068, Wednesday 22 May: EXALT
- Wordle #1067, Tuesday 21 May: DINGO
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 2024.
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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