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 #1152) – 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 #1152) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is 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.
Wordle hints (game #1152) – 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 #1152) – 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 #1152) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1152.
- Today’s Wordle answer is the land bordering a body of water.
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 #1152)
- NYT average score: 3.6
- My score: 3
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- Best start word performance*: PARSE (6 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: SPARE (6)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1152) is… SHORE.
I’m getting major deja-vu today, because SHORE is remarkably similar to SCONE, SCALE and SHAPE, all of which have appeared within the past 40 days. All have that S at the start and E at the end, all have a common vowel in the middle, all have two relatively common consonants either side of that. And, of course, all have a low average score – as you’d expect given how likely the various letters are.
Today’s average is 3.6 at the time of writing, so slightly below SHAPE (3.7) but above SCALE (3.2) and SCONE (3.4). I scored 3/6 on each of them, but today’s task was made much easier by another fortuitous start word, following on from my lucky opening yesterday.
The thing about random start words is they let you down far more often than they succeed, but when they do come good, you can’t help feeling like you’ve cheated. I’ll take it, of course – a 3/6 is never to be sneered at – but it’s not like I had to do much here beyond play the odds.
My starter was SPARE, another “extraordinarily lucky” choice, according to WordleBot, and one which today cut my shortlist to six. These were SHORE, SHIRE, STORE, SCORE, SWORE and SNORE, and I spent a little while figuring out what the best second word was to narrow them down and guarantee a three. I settled on CHANT, which wasn’t perfect because it might have left a 50/50 between SHORE and SHIRE. It was the best I could come up with at the time, but if I’d have looked a little harder I’d have realized that NOTCH, WITCH and WINCH would all have guaranteed me that three.
As it happened, I did end up with that 50/50 – but I always going to play the more common SHORE over SHIRE, so again got lucky when that turned out to be the answer.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1151)
In a different time zone where it’s still Tuesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1151, 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 N.
N is a surprisingly uncommon starting letter. Only 37 games begin with it and it ranks just 18th in this regard.
- 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 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 #1151.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is an animal sound.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1151)
- NYT average score: 4.1
- My score: 2
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- Best start word performance*: SAINT (9 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: APING (4)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1151) was… NEIGH.
It’s been a long time since I’ve scored a 2/6 on Wordle. More than a month, in fact, during which time I’ve endured two 6s, six 5s and 14 4s, plus a far more palatable 10 3s. However, today’s success was almost entirely down to luck, so I can’t claim much credit for the result.
It was welcome all the same, though, because NEIGH is a slightly harder than normal answer, with an average right now of 4.1. None of the letters are particularly uncommon – although G and H are best described as middling. But it is relatively unusual in featuring none of the four most common consonants, R, T, L and S, and that could be a factor in the high-ish score.
It was certainly that detail that led to poor results for most of the top start words: CRANE, with 90, was one of the few that dipped below 100, with SLATE (328) and STARE (248) more representative.
And that’s where my luck came in – because my random start word today was APING. That was a decent opening word, according to WordleBot, but today it was “extraordinarily” lucky and left only four possible solutions.
I drew up a shortlist, which consisted of one word – NEIGH. Yes, I completely missed the other three, which were REIGN, FEIGN and DEIGN. That could have caused me all kinds of trouble, to the extent that if the answer had been one of those three I might still have ended up with a 4/6 or even 5/6, despite that remarkable opening.
However, the Wordle gods smiled upon me today, because I guessed NEIGH and it turned out to be the solution. Sometimes it’s all just too easy.
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 #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
- 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
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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