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.
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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 #1346) – 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 #1346) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is G.
G is the eighth most common starting letter, featuring in 115 Wordle answers. It’s often paired with an R to make GR— or an L to make GL—, but I’m not revealing whether that’s the case today.
Wordle hints (game #1346) – 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 #1346) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is D.
D is a fairly common letter to end a Wordle answer: it’s the eighth most likely to be in that position in a solution.
Wordle hints (game #1346) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1346.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a type of organ or cell.
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 #1346)
- NYT average score: 3.9
- My score: 3
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- My start word performance: CREED (43 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (20)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1346) is… GLAND.
Not every Wordle can be memorable. After all, there are at least 2,300 of them and in among those interesting words there will also be some that are, well, bland.
GLAND is one of them. It has an average score of 3.9 – absolutely bang on the overall average – and no particularly notable features.
The letters are generally common, but only one of them, A, features in the top five by frequency. There are a couple of reasonably common pairings, in the form of GL at the start and ND at the end. There are a couple of similarly spelled words – the aforementioned BLAND and also GRAND – and a few more that are close cousins, including GLADE and CLANG and SLANG. And that’s about it!
The best I can really say about it is that it is. It exists. It has had the honor of being a Wordle answer. And I doubt it will live long in the memory…
It did, however, give me a second successive three, so I’m not complaining too much. I was helped today by my random start word, CREED, which gave me the D at the end and cut the shortlist to 43, according to WordleBot. And then I got very lucky with my second guess and reduced that to one.
I say it was lucky, but there was strategy involved too. I knew that with a D at the end it would be likely to be preceded by an L, N or R among the consonants, or an E, I or A among the vowels. R and E were ruled out already, and BLING enabled me to include the L, I and N.
There were many other good options, but I figured that B and G were also worth including, because they featured in lots of the D-ending words I’d shortlisted: BLAND, BLOND, BLIND, BLOOD, GUILD and GLAND were all on it.
Admittedly, I didn’t spend too long looking, and WordleBot was only mildly impressed with my choice, awarding me 72 out of 99, but it did the job in giving me a green L, green N and yellow G. That left GLAND as the only option, so I scored a forgettable, albeit welcome, three.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1345)
In a different time zone where it’s still Sunday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1345, 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 O.
Vowels are generally less common than you’d expect at the start of a word, and O is only the 17th most likely letter to begin a Wordle 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 R.
R is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – it’s actually the 4th most common there, behind E, Y and T.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1345.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a an animal.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1345)
- NYT average score: 4.0
- My score: 3
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- My start word performance: HOVER (9 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (191)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1345) was… OTTER.
Hands up if you love OTTERs? That’ll be all of you, then. And rightly so, because otters are great! We could surely all learn a lot from their playful nature (he says, working on a weekend), a love of fun that’s so ingrained in them that one of the collective nouns for otters is a “romp”. Wonderful. Although that said, otter attacks on humans are apparently increasing in Florida, where there have been 42 such instances since 2000. I’d never have predicted that!
Anyway, OTTER was also a lovely Wordle answer. It may not look like one at first glance, because it has both a repeated letter and an ER ending, two factors usually guaranteed to spell danger. Here, however, it was de-clawed, with WordleBot reporting that it has an average score of 4.0. That’s slightly higher than the norm, sure, but hardly in keeping for an ER-with-a-repeat.
Admittedly, that average may be skewed by the fact that STARE, still one of the most popular among the best Wordle start words, left only four possible solutions, with ETHER, UTTER and OTHER being the, er, others.
Given that all three are past Wordle answers, anyone who consulted the list – or who has an extremely good memory – will have scored a two here.
STARE acolytes aside, it’s probably on the easier side of hard, if that makes sense. All five letters (or rather, four letters) are very common, and the format here prevents the ER aspect from doing its usual damage. That’s because there are not that many letters that can follow an O at the start of an answer, still fewer that can go between O and T, or T and E.
In fact, once you had the O and had established that it wasn’t the second letter – where it would play a part in many, many more solutions, such as BOXER, CORER, LOSER and so on – you will have had a fairly short shortlist.
That was exactly the result that fate bestowed upon me today. I began with HOVER, chosen as always at random, but today supremely suited to the task. It didn’t perform quite so well as STARE, but it cut my options to nine, an entirely manageable number.
I didn’t quite find them all, with OILER and OGLER escaping my gaze, but did come up with OFFER, OWNER, OUTER, OLDER, ORDER, ODDER and OTTER. And I worked out that playing ADULT would almost guarantee me a three; there was a chance I’d still have a 50/50, but there was a greater likelihood it would point me to the solution.
As it happened, I got lucky. ADULT gave me a yellow T, and coupled with the fact that D, U and L were ruled out, that left OTTER as the only possible answer.
Wordle answers: The past 50
I’ve been playing Wordle every day for more than three 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 #1345, Sunday 23 February: OTTER
- Wordle #1344, Saturday 22 February: CREAM
- Wordle #1343, Friday 21 February: CLOVE
- Wordle #1342, Thursday 20 February: ROACH
- Wordle #1341, Wednesday 19 February: MADLY
- Wordle #1340, Tuesday 18 February: INDIE
- Wordle #1339, Monday 17 February: TRAIL
- Wordle #1338, Sunday 16 February: SUAVE
- Wordle #1337, Saturday 15 February: CROOK
- Wordle #1336, Friday 14 February: DITTY
- Wordle #1335, Thursday 13 February: RUMBA
- Wordle #1334, Wednesday 12 February: RAPID
- Wordle #1333, Tuesday 11 February: SCORE
- Wordle #1332, Monday 10 February: GOODY
- Wordle #1331, Sunday 9 February: BONUS
- Wordle #1330, Saturday 8 February: STEEP
- Wordle #1329, Friday 7 February: SWATH
- Wordle #1328, Thursday 6 February: PUPIL
- Wordle #1327, Wednesday 5 February: PEDAL
- Wordle #1326, Tuesday 4 February: TOOTH
- Wordle #1325, Monday 3 February: REVUE
- Wordle #1324, Sunday 2 February: CHORE
- Wordle #1323, Saturday 1 February: RIVET
- Wordle #1322, Friday 31 January: TOAST
- Wordle #1321, Thursday 30 January: FALSE
- Wordle #1320, Wednesday 29 January: UDDER
- Wordle #1319, Tuesday 28 January: FEVER
- Wordle #1318, Monday 27 January: SHUNT
- Wordle #1317, Sunday 26 January: SUNNY
- Wordle #1316, Saturday 25 January: CRISP
- Wordle #1315, Friday 24 January: CREPE
- Wordle #1314, Thursday 23 January: UPPER
- Wordle #1313, Wedneday 22 January: REACH
- Wordle #1312, Tuesday 21 January: ICING
- Wordle #1311, Monday 20 January: SQUID
- Wordle #1310, Sunday 19 January: ROWER
- Wordle #1309, Saturday 18 January: SILLY
- Wordle #1308, Friday 17 January: PROSE
- Wordle #1307, Thursday 16 January: FLINT
- Wordle #1306, Wednesday 15 January: KNACK
- Wordle #1305, Tuesday 14 January: FANCY
- Wordle #1304, Monday 13 January: CLOAK
- Wordle #1303, Sunday 12 January: TOTAL
- Wordle #1302, Saturday 11 January: DINGY
- Wordle #1301, Friday 10 January: CRAWL
- Wordle #1300, Thursday 9 January: WAFER
- Wordle #1299, Wednesday 8 January: DRAFT
- Wordle #1298, Tuesday 7 January: ATLAS
- Wordle #1297, Monday 6 January: SPRIG
- Wordle #1296, Sunday 5 January: CYBER
- Wordle #1295, Saturday 4 January: RELAX
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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