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 #1180) – 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 #1180) – 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 #1180) – 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 #1180) – 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 #1180) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1180.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a passage between seats.
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 #1180)
- NYT average score: 3.4
- My score: 3
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- Best start word performance*: STALE, SLICE (1 remaining answer)
- My start word performance: SLINK (5)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1180) is… AISLE.
This is a very easy Wordle, with a low, low, low score of 3.4 at the time of writing. That’s a full half-guess below the overall average for Wordle of 3.9, and nearly a whole guess below yesterday’s REBEL (see below).
Why so simple? Well, partly it’s down to the fact that it has three vowels – something which usually makes a Wordle easier – and partly it’s down to start word performance.
Those two things are linked here, because the most popular start word of them all, ADIEU, left only three possible solutions. And as you can see, ADIEU contains four vowels, three of which are in AISLE. And nor was it the only success today – SLATE, another very popular choice, also left three, while RAISE and ARISE, two other very common starters, both left only one.
I was only a little behind that today, because for once I got lucky with my random opener: SLINK cut my answers list to only five.
Or at least that’s what WordleBot told me afterwards. In my head, I had only two: BASIL and AISLE. The others, according to the ‘bot, were POLIS (really?), LEXIS (really really?) and ISLET (OK, yeah, I probably should have spotted this).
Anyway, with a 50/50 as far as I was concerned, it made sense for me to just pick one rather than trying to further narrow things down. And in the end I went for BASIL, mainly because I really, really like BASIL. I mean come on, pesto is amazing.
So I played BASIL for very sensible reasons, and though it was wrong it cut my answers list to only one (even if in my head I only ever had one more option anyway). I played AISLE without worrying about it, and scored my easy 3/6.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1179)
In a different time zone where it’s still Tuesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1179, 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 R.
R is a surprisingly uncommon starting letter. Despite ranking third overall in Wordle, it’s merely the 11th most likely to begin an answer.
- There were 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 L.
L is a really common letter to find at the end of a Wordle. There are 155 games that finish with an L, and it ranks as the fifth most likely letter there.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1179.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer resists authority.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1179)
- NYT average score: 4.2
- My score: 5
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- Best start word performance*: LEAST (26 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: FUROR (307)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1179) was… REBEL.
Oh dear. This was one of those Wordle games where I didn’t really make any mistakes but where the combination of bad luck and a difficult word combined to leave me scrabbling around. That, and the fact that I was busy writing about everything Apple announced at the iPhone 16 event. Sorry for the shameless plug, but it did rather distract me.
Anyway, REBEL is a tough Wordle, and one that has an average score of 4.2 at the time of writing. It has a repeated letter – only an E, admittedly, so a common repeat as these things go, but still a repeat. And it has a couple of very similarly spelled words, namely REPEL and REVEL.
My start word didn’t help. My random word generator gave me FUROR, which is a fine word to use in conversation (go on, try it!) but which left me with 307 possible answers. It did repeat a letter, but it was the wrong one, R, and didn’t contain an E, B or L at all.
Still, I had an R, so played TRACE next simply because it used four more common letters. This was the perfect choice, according to WordleBot (99 out of 99 for skill here), but still left 21 answers due to poor luck (11 out of 99).
I now had an E to factor in, but knew it couldn’t be an ER word as the R was ruled out of that space. And with the E ruled out of the final position, it couldn’t be an —RE word such as SPIRE, either. So instead, I moved them both to the start, added in the sole remaining vowel plus the S and N, and went with RESIN.
Again, this was a “great choice” and again it was unlucky (13/99 this time). I had narrowed it down to five words, though, and found all of them: REBEL, REPEL, REVEL, REEDY and REPLY. Unfortunately, none would guarantee me a five – whatever I went for I might have ended up with a six at worst. I could have played a narrowing-down word instead, which would have got me that five… but it would definitely not have got me a four.
So I gambled. I went with REPEL, and when it was wrong had a choice of two, REVEL or REBEL. This time I guessed correctly with REBEL, so ended up with a five after all.
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 #1179, Tuesday 10 September: REBEL
- Wordle #1178, Monday 9 September: DEBIT
- Wordle #1177, Sunday 8 September: DRAWN
- Wordle #1176, Saturday 7 September: OWNER
- Wordle #1175, Friday 6 September: RERUN
- Wordle #1174, Thursday 5 September: WIDEN
- Wordle #1173, Wednesday 4 September: STERN
- Wordle #1172, Tuesday 3 September: FAINT
- Wordle #1171, Monday 2 September: CAMEL
- Wordle #1170, Sunday 1 September: MUSHY
- Wordle #1169, Saturday 31 August: SPOUT
- Wordle #1168, Friday 30 August: KNAVE
- Wordle #1167, Thursday 29 August: FLUNK
- Wordle #1166, Wednesday 28 August: LITHE
- Wordle #1165, Tuesday 27 August: CROWN
- Wordle #1164, Monday 26 August: STAKE
- Wordle #1163, Sunday 25 August: SKATE
- Wordle #1162, Saturday 24 August: FILET
- Wordle #1161, Friday 23 August: LEECH
- Wordle #1160, Thursday 22 August: BRUTE
- Wordle #1159, Wednesday 21 August: MULCH
- Wordle #1158, Tuesday 20 August: DELAY
- Wordle #1157, Monday 19 August: METER
- Wordle #1156, Sunday 18 August: LANKY
- Wordle #1155, Saturday 17 August: STORM
- Wordle #1154, Friday 16 August: BRACE
- 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
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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