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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? TechRadar’s Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that game, and you can also take a look at our NYT Strands today and NYT Connections today pages for our verdict on two of the New York Times’ other brainteasers.
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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 #1367) – 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 #1367) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is L.
L is a surprisingly uncommon starting letter in Wordle. Despite being the sixth most common letter overall, it’s only ranked 12th at the beginning of a word.
Wordle hints (game #1367) – 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 #1367) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is O.
O is a middling ending letter. It ranks 12th in this regard, and finishes 58 Wordle answers in total.
Wordle hints (game #1367) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1367.
- Today’s Wordle answer is thrown around things.
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 #1367)
- NYT average score: 3.7
- My score: 3
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- My start word performance: ENTRY (328 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (187)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1367) is… LASSO.
LASSO is one of those words that has a very different pronunciation in English depending on where you are. In the US, it’s LAS-SO; in Britain and Australia, it’s LA-SOO. This is a detail that has always thrown me when watching the hit Apple TV Plus show Ted Lasso.
There’s no real consensus as to why the difference exists, but either way the word’s origins appear to hail from the Spanish lazo. We’ll have to just file this one under tomato/tomato.
One thing we can all agree on, hopefully, is that it’s a good Wordle word. It has a repeated letter – something that always shakes up a game – and is not the kind of everyday word you’d necessarily think of (unless you spend a lot of time at rodeos).
It also gave me my first three since Wednesday (very welcome) and a rare win over WordleBot, which scored four. The average is somewhere between the two, as it so often is, but slightly closer to four: it currently stands at 3.7.
It’s not a hard Wordle, then, but the repeated S definitely adds a complication. As my analysis of every Wordle answer shows, S is a relatively common repeatee, with 49 examples among the original 2,309 solutions. However, it’s still unlikely compared to getting just one, obviously.
My game was all about my second guess. My first, ENTRY, was another blank one and left 328 options. Remarkably, my second, SCOLD, cut that to three.
There was a lot of luck involved, obviously, but with five very common letters ruled out on my first guess, it did make sense to play S, C, O, L and D next.
Well, sort of – technically, A, I and U are all more common than the D I included here. But I’d always rather find consonants than vowels, and though D didn’t end up featuring in the answer, the L and S both did.
LASSO was the only word I could see for my third guess. WordleBot says I could also have played POLIS and BOLUS, but I can’t see either of those ever appearing in the game.
With that in mind, I would like to lodge a formal appeal against the ‘Bot’s decision to only award me 82/99 for skill on that third guess. It’s clearly just sour grapes.
How did you do today? Send me an email or let me know in the comments.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1366)
In a different time zone where it’s still Sunday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1366, too.
- Wordle yesterday had 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).
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was S.
S is the most common starting letter in the game, featuring in 365 of Wordle’s 2,309 answers. In fact, it’s almost twice as likely to begin an answer as the next most common starting letter, C.
- 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 P.
P is a middling end letter in Wordle. It features in 56 answers, which places it 12th in the alphabet. Don’t expect it to happen that often compared to the likes of E, Y and T.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1366.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is used on mail.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1366)
- NYT average score: 3.6
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- My start word performance: SHELF (141 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (59)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1366) was… STAMP.
My approach to Wordle is undeniably nerdy, but relying on probability really does work over a long period. Of course it does – it’s mathematics, it has to work!
Take the first two letters yesterday, ST. These are, statistically, the most common to find together at the start of a solution, a detail I cover in my analysis of every Wordle answer.
As that shows, there are 65 ST words among the original 2,309 answers, so you’d expect that pattern to show up every 35.5 games, if the universe was playing along nicely. And what do you know? The last ST game was STEEP, game 1,330, so exactly 36 Wordles ago.
I do love it when things work out exactly as they should do.
That didn’t entirely help me today, admittedly, because my start word was SHELF – which features the second most common opening combo rather than the first. Yes, it did give me a green S, but it still left 141 answers.
If you began with STARE, on the other hand, you’ll have had a lot of work done for you already, because that cut the shortlist to a mere 11. That probably helps explain why today’s game has a low average score of 3.6.
For my second guess, I decided to focus on letters that can follow an S: T, C and N were all good candidates. I needed some vowels, too, so went with ANTIC – a slightly unconventional choice, but it worked well enough in cutting the list down to eight.
I found six of those eight words: START, STRAY, STRAP, STRAW, SMART and STOAT. The two I missed were SQUAT – I always forget to look for SQ words – and STAMP.
How I managed to overlook STAMP, I do not know. It’s such an obvious word, and I had all of the other ST options. But miss it I did.
Fortunately that didn’t come back to haunt me. I worked out that playing WORMY would come the closest to narrowing it down, and indeed it did – leaving just the one answer, STAMP.
Of course I still hadn’t spotted that, so I had a puzzled few seconds while I looked at the green M in bewilderment, then realized my error and took my four.
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 #1366, Sunday 16 March: STAMP
- Wordle #1365, Saturday 15 March: LADLE
- Wordle #1364, Friday 14 March: PIECE
- Wordle #1363, Thursday 13 March: CHASE
- Wordle #1362, Wednesday 12 March: MANGO
- Wordle #1361, Tuesday 11 March: TRACK
- Wordle #1360, Monday 10 March: SPITE
- Wordle #1359, Sunday 9 March: GREED
- Wordle #1358, Saturday 8 March: NAVEL
- Wordle #1357, Friday 7 March: TROOP
- Wordle #1356, Thursday 6 March: ALERT
- Wordle #1355, Wednesday 5 March: SCRUM
- Wordle #1354, Tuesday 4 March: CHECK
- Wordle #1353, Monday 3 March: SPEAR
- Wordle #1352, Sunday 2 March: DEITY
- Wordle #1351, Saturday 1 March: HOVER
- Wordle #1350, Friday 28 February: FUZZY
- Wordle #1349, Thursday 27 February: LODGE
- Wordle #1348, Wednesday 26 February: AWARD
- Wordle #1347, Tuesday 25 February: DRYER
- Wordle #1346, Monday 24 February: GLAND
- 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
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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