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 #1154) – 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 #1154) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is B.
B is a very, very common starting letter in Wordle. In fact, it’s the third most common overall, behind only S and C.
Wordle hints (game #1154) – 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 #1154) – 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 #1154) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1154.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a support.
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 #1154)
- NYT average score: 3.7
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- Best start word performance*: CRATE, TRACE, TRICE (2 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: ZONAL (483)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1154) is… BRACE.
Ah, B my old friend. Good to see you. It’s been a while!
So long, in fact, that I almost forgot that B is actually the third most common starting letter in the game. Don’t believe me? Check out my analysis of every Wordle answer for the proof.
As that shows, B is behind only S and C in terms of first-letter appearances, and is so likely there that you’d expect one every 13 games or so. However, we’ve not had one since BLARE, game 1,116, and that was 38 Wordles ago. Obviously probability never guarantees anything, but it’s a reminder that statistics will only take you so far.
Then again, the other four letters kind of disprove that: R is the third most likely to appear in position #2, A the most likely to be in the middle, E the most likely to be at the end. C is far more common at the start than in position #4, as it is here, but it’s still eighth by frequency in this place.
Common letters in common places always make for easy Wordles, and BRACE is no exception. WordleBot says it has an average score of 3.7 – a third easy one in a row, and indeed a seventh easy one in the past nine games. I doubt there will be many failures today.
Instead, I predict lots of twos – because some of the best start words made huge inroads today. CRANE, WordleBot’s favorite and the fourth most popular opener among the public, left only three solutions, as did CARTE and PLACE. TRACE, CRATE and TRICE went one better, at two. STARE was a lot worse, comparatively, but still left only 14.
And what did my random word generator give me among this glut of good results? ZONAL, which left 483 words. Yeah, thanks world.
I was unable to turn that poor beginning into a 3/6 today, needing STARE to cut the answer list to 11 and then one more word to narrow those down. My shortlist had 10 on it: BRAVE, BRACE, BRAKE, GRADE, GRACE, GRAVE, GRAPE, CRAVE, DRAPE and FRAME (the one I missed was DRAKE).
What I needed, then, was a word that would filter all those Ds and Gs and Bs and Cs, and in the end I went with CADGE. This was not quite guaranteed to give me the answer in four, but it was the best I could do and was what WordleBot would have chosen too. And it worked, giving me the yellow C that narrowed it down to GRACE or BRACE, but not the G that would have indicated the first of those two. So I played BRACE next for my four.
However, as a coda I want to point out that WordleBot had a right stinker. I said above that CRANE left it only three possible answers – well for some reason it played TRACE, then GRACE, and had to settle for a four itself. I have no idea why it didn’t just go with a word such as THING on the second guess and guarantee itself a three; I guess it’s a bigger risk taker than me, but it didn’t work today…
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1153)
In a different time zone where it’s still Thursday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1153, 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 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.
- 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 N.
N is a pretty common ending letter in Wordle: it’s the seventh most likely in that position and features in 130 solutions.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1153.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer grows into something mighty.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1153)
- NYT average score: 3.5
- My score: 3
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- Best start word performance*: CRANE (2 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: TALLY (333)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1153) was… ACORN.
What’s better: a great first guess, poor second and a score of 3/6 – or a poor first guess, great second and a score of 3/6? Technically they’re equally good, but human nature dictates that the second scenario will always feel more satisfying.
I say this because my game was almost the exact opposite of WordleBot’s today, but we both ended up with that score of 3/6. And yes, I bet I’m feeling a lot more positive about it than the ‘bot is (in the unlikely event that it has feelings).
That didn’t look likely initially, though. One of the big drawbacks of using a random start word each day is that sometimes you have to play a word with a repeated letter in it. That’s generally bad, because you want to gain as much information about the answer as possible, and that means that you want five letters in there.
(The only exception to that is if the answer has a repeated letter too, but the chance of your start word having the same repeat as the solution is very small, so let’s ignore that.)
Today, my start word was TALLY – meaning that I got a single yellow A, and learned that there was no T, L or Y. And that was it – no fifth letter to rule out (or in). What a waste! That left me in a rather bad mood approaching my second guess, and with 333 possible solutions.
In contrast, anyone who began with CRANE already had four yellows, and had ruled out a fifth letter. Those players – WordleBot among them – had only two words to pick from: RANCH and ACORN.
But I had the last laugh. WordleBot picked RANCH first, then was left with ACORN to play third time out. Whereas in my case, I played CRANE as my second guess, and that left me with only a single option, ACORN – meaning I also scored a three.
So, same result but I end up feeling like I’ve snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, whereas WordleBot is left ruing a missed two. In your face, ‘bot!
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 #1153, Thursday 15 August: ACORN
- Wordle #1152, Wednesday 14 August: SHORE
- Wordle #1151, Tuesday 13 August: NEIGH
- Wordle #1150, Monday 12 August: SKIFF
- Wordle #1149, Sunday 11 August: SCONE
- Wordle #1148, Saturday 10 August: MEDIC
- Wordle #1147, Friday 9 August: OUNCE
- Wordle #1146, Thursday 8 August: SAUCY
- Wordle #1145, Wednesday 7 August: MACAW
- Wordle #1144, Tuesday 6 August: ANVIL
- Wordle #1143, Monday 5 August: ENSUE
- Wordle #1142, Sunday 4 August: LOWER
- Wordle #1141, Saturday 3 August: SCALE
- Wordle #1140, Friday 2 August: FLAKE
- Wordle #1139, Thursday 1 August: CHALK
- Wordle #1138, Wednesday 31 July: PENNE
- Wordle #1137, Tuesday 30 July: FERAL
- Wordle #1136, Monday 29 July: SUPER
- Wordle #1135, Sunday 28 July: SMOCK
- Wordle #1134, Saturday 27 July: JUICE
- Wordle #1133, Friday 26 July: AWASH
- Wordle #1132, Thursday 25 July: PORCH
- Wordle #1131, Wednesday 24 July: FORTE
- Wordle #1130, Tuesday 23 July: PRONG
- Wordle #1129, Monday 22 July: CADET
- Wordle #1128, Sunday 21 July: SPECK
- Wordle #1127, Saturday 20 July: SHAFT
- Wordle #1126, Friday 19 July: REFER
- Wordle #1125, Thursday 18 July: NERDY
- Wordle #1124, Wednesday 17 July: QUITE
- Wordle #1123, Tuesday 16 July: DECOY
- Wordle #1122, Monday 15 July: SWOON
- Wordle #1121, Sunday 14 July: VIDEO
- Wordle #1120, Saturday 13 July: ENACT
- Wordle #1119, Friday 12 July: JIFFY
- 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
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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