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 #1131) – 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 #1131) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is F.
F is a very common starting letter in Wordle. It ranks seventh behind only S, C, B, T, P and A and overall there are 135 solutions that begin with this letter.
Wordle hints (game #1131) – 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 #1131) – 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 #1131) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1131.
- Today’s Wordle answer is your strong suit.
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 #1131)
- NYT average score: 4.0
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- Best start word performance*: CARTE (2 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: GOING (291)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1131) is… FORTE.
I suspect this one might cause people a few problems. Admittedly, I base that on the fact that it caused me a few problems, mostly because the word FORTE simply did not occur to me. It looks like it should have an accent, right? But it doesn’t. Whether that was the reason why it didn’t make my shortlist, I’m not sure, but it completely escaped my notice until late on.
WordleBot says it has an average score of 4.0, which makes it the toughest since REFER last Friday and slightly above yesterday’s PRONG (3.9). There’s nothing else unduly difficult about it – all five letters are common, with the exception of F, which is 19th overall. But even with that one, it’s the seventh most common starting letter, so not exactly rare in this scenario. So I can only guess that its relatively unusual spelling must be the main complicating factor.
It’s one where several popular starting words cut the options to an extent, at least. CRANE left 46, STARE only 16, SLATE 14; the less commonly played CARTE a mere two. But in my case, I had a shortlist – sorry, longlist – of 291. Nasty. That was due to my random word generator giving me GOING, which would have been very helpful with yesterday’s PRONG but which today gave me only a single green O.
As is always the case for me, I wanted to guard against the risk of an ER word – or rather, to guard against the risk of learning it was an ER word late on. So I played LOSER next. With hindsight, I should have gone for something else that didn’t include the O, because I already knew that was green so could have instead gained info about another common letter. But anyway, LOSER was a good choice in the sense that I “lucked out”, as WordleBot put it, and reduced the options to five.
I found three of them: FORCE, HORDE and ROUTE. However, I missed TORTE and FORTE. Would I have played either of them if I had found them? Probably not, but we’ll never know… Anyway, I went with FORCE, and though that was wrong it left only FORTE as an option, so I played that once I realized my mistake and scored a four.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1130)
In a different time zone where it’s still Tuesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1130, 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 P.
P is a very common first letter among Wordle answers. It’s the fifth most common in the alphabet and begins 141 solutions in total.
- 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 G.
G is not a common letter to end a Wordle answer – in fact only 41 of Wordle’s 2,309 games finish with one.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1130.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a pointed or projecting part.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1130)
- NYT average score: 3.9
- My score: 3
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- Best start word performance*: PLANE (6 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: WOODY (145)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1130) was… PRONG.
We’re in a run of relatively unremarkable Wordles at the moment, but that’s fair enough; with 2,309 original solutions, they can’t all be fascinating words with repeated letters and uncommon structures.
PRONG is a little harder than the previous three, at least, with WordleBot stating that it has an average score of 3.9 versus 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7 for the previous three. The reason for that is most likely its similarity to a few other possible answers, chiefly WRONG, PROOF, PROUD, PRONE, PROWL and all of the other PRO– words.
WRONG is the one that most people got tripped up by, including WordleBot, which had to settle for a 4/6 after guessing that on the third. In contrast, I was able to score a 3/6 thanks to a very fortunate start word.
It didn’t seem lucky at the time, though, because WOODY only gave me a green O in the middle and left 145 possible answers. CRANE, which left 17, was way ahead of that – so WordleBot had an advantage there.
My second guess, STALE, cut those options to 12, so really I should have scored a four. The ‘bot, meanwhile, had only a pair to choose from: PRONG and WRONG.
But the W had already been ruled out for me, so that was never an option. Instead, I came up with a list that contained GROUP, CHOIR, GROIN, CHOCK, CROCK, FROCK, PRONG and CHOMP. The four I’d missed were CROUP (unlikely to be an answer), BRONC (also unlikely), CHOUX (possible, maybe) and KNOCK (very likely).
I decided to play PRONG not because I thought I’d guess correctly from an eight-strong shortlist, but because it would guarantee me a four unless the answer was one of CROCK or FROCK, in which case I’d have a 50/50 and a possible five.
I was shooting for a four, then, but as it happened PRONG was the perfect word to play, because it ruled out all the options other than itself and gave me an unexpected three.
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 #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
- 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
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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