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 #1134) – 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 #1134) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is J.
J is the least common letter overall in Wordle, but is only the fourth least likely starting letter. That’s because it begins 20 out of the 27 answers it appears in (Y, Z and X are all less common starting letters).
Wordle hints (game #1134) – 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 #1134) – 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 #1134) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1134.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a fluid.
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 #1134)
- NYT average score: 4.1
- My score: 6
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- Best start word performance*: SLICE (5 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: MEDIC (22)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1134) is… JUICE.
Is this my worst game ever? Possibly. Yeah, it’s reasonably difficult (average score: 4.1, at the time of writing) and yes, I suffered some bad luck – but I also played well below the standards I expect from myself.
That said, I don’t really care, because I’m going on vacation today and I played this game quickly before setting off. (Don’t worry, I’ll still be writing this column daily while I’m off). So yes, I rushed it and made mistakes, but that’s a fair trade for a week in the sun.
JUICE is a difficult one, though well below the 4.4 level of yesterday’s AWASH. It’s mainly tough because of that J – the least common of all letters in Wordle. Elsewhere, the three vowels probably made it easier, particularly if you began with either of the two most popular starting words: ADIEU left only eight options, AUDIO left 18. CRANE, another oft-picked word, was a good one too – it left 11 – although top marks went to SLICE, with a mere five.
The frustrating thing for me was that my MEDIC was not that far behind them, at 22. I really should have got home in four from there, possibly three. A five would have just about been acceptable. A six… well, that’s disgraceful.
My only real excuse is slapdash play. I simply didn’t spend enough time trying to figure out the options, so when I got to the third guess – a point at which there were eight words left, according to WordleBot, I based my workings on the fact that there were only four. And that in turn meant I did a poor job of finding a good narrowing-down word, and so only ruled out five. WordleBot’s pick, CLOUT, would have ruled out seven and guaranteed me a solve on the next go.
I then compounded that on the fourth guess, when with three words left I somehow managed to only find VOICE. And then did it again next time, when I only found TWICE. For whatever reason my brain just didn’t want to think ‘JUICE’. I finally realized what the answer was on the sixth attempt, and headed off in shame (but also on holiday, so whatever…).
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1133)
In a different time zone where it’s still Friday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1133, 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 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 H.
H is a regular visitor to the final spot in a Wordle word. It occurs 137 times at the end of a Wordle answer, making it the sixth most common letter there.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1133.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer H is overrun.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1133)
- NYT average score: 4.5
- My score: 5
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- Best start word performance*: SLATE, STALE (14 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: NOVEL (484)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1133) was… AWASH.
The world was against me with this one. Or rather, the Wordle was against me, I can’t blame the rest of humanity.
But while I undoubtedly suffered some bad luck, AWASH is a reasonably difficult answer for most people, with a current average score of 4.5 (although it is early days and that may come down). If it does stay at that score, it would make it the toughest since REFER a week ago, and one of the more difficult Wordles this year.
And it isn’t hard to see why: it has a repeated A, plus a relatively uncommon W in it. Neither will have helped people solve it quickly. But what will have helped is beginning with SLATE or STALE, as each left only 14 possible solutions. STARE, meanwhile, was only a little way behind them at 16. And given that SLATE and STARE are among the most popular of all starting words, plenty of Wordlers won’t have faced the travails that I did.
So, what were they? Well, things started off poorly and got worse. My opening word was NOVEL, which gave me a big fat zero letters and which left me with nearly 500 options (484, to be precise). STRAY, my second guess, was a “terrific” choice, according to WordleBot, and reasonably lucky in that it gave me two yellow letters and cut those options to 10. Not too bad.
Unfortunately, it took me another three guesses to find the answer from there. I decided to play CHASM next, because with S ruled out of the opening slot it looked likely to be in the fourth position instead; it sat there in several of my shortlisted words, AMISS, AMASS, QUASH and indeed CHASM itself. The M was also present in a couple, so it seemed a good approach. And again, WordleBot liked it, awarding me 82 for skill. But it was unlucky, and still left me with three choices.
These were QUASH, AWASH and ABASH… but unfortunately I’d missed the latter two. So I played QUASH expecting to score a four, only to see with horror that there were previously unknown (to me) words lurking within those squares. I looked again and found them – which meant I now had a 50/50 and might even end up with a six. The horror! Fortunately that didn’t happen; I played AWASH and escaped with a frustrating five.
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 #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
- 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
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.
Services Marketplace – Listings, Bookings & Reviews