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 #1219) – 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 #1219) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is D.
D is the ninth most common starting letter in the game, so maybe slightly less likely than you might expect.
Wordle hints (game #1219) – 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 #1219) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is Y.
Y is the second most common ending letter in the game, behind only E. In total, 364 Wordle answers end with a Y.
Wordle hints (game #1219) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1219.
- Today’s Wordle answer is risky.
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 #1219)
- NYT average score: 4.2
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- Best start word performance*: TRICE (5 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: INGOT (325)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1219) is… DICEY.
My experience with CORER and FIBER over the past week has made me so paranoid about ER words that I’m seeing them everywhere. They lurk on the edge of my vision during the day, I sense them under my bed at night… in fact, I think I feel one behind me right now. Well, I guess Halloween is coming up after all.
My renewed fear of them certainly came into play today; I was worried about another one throughout, and missed the eventual answer as a result. It didn’t really harm my game, but it sure made it all a lot more stressful!
DICEY is hard enough without your imagination going into overdrive. WordleBot says it has an average score of 4.2 at the time of writing, meaning that this is fourth hardest Wordle week ever, with only one game below 4.0.
It’s nowhere near as tough as CORER or FIBER of course, even if the word itself is not particularly common. There are no repeated letters here, for instance, and as it turned out it wasn’t an ER word at all.
In fact, it won’t have been that bad at all if you began with TRICE – which left only five possible solutions – CARET (7) or SLICE (10). CRANE, WordleBot’s favorite, wasn’t too far behind either, leaving only 21.
My random word today was INGOT, which could have been very useful on some days but which today only gave me a yellow I and which left 325 options. I figured it would be sensible to add some common letters in, so placed the I in the center – by far its most likely location – then added in S, L, C and E to make SLICE.
This was nearly perfect, said WordleBot (which would have gone for CARED instead) and though it didn’t turn any letters green, it did cut my shortlist to six in the ‘bot’s eyes. In mine there were only two, though: DICER and BICEP. The difference of opinion stemmed from the fact that for once I have started to consult my list of past Wordle answers and saw that CIDER and MEDIC (which were both on WordleBot’s list) had appeared before. I also ruled out DICED, because ED words are very, very unlikely.
And of course I missed DICEY entirely, which was due to the fact that I was so focused on DICER and the possibility that there might be another ER word I hadn’t spotted. Was CIFER a word? No, of course that’s spelled CIPHER. Was a RICER a thing? Obviously not, so I finally convinced myself to play DICER and when the first four letters turned green thought I’d solved it. But the last one stayed stubbornly gray, so I had to play DICEY next (having again dismissed DICED) and solved it in four.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1218)
In a different time zone where it’s still Saturday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1218, 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 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.
- 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 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 #1218.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a thin thread.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1218)
- NYT average score: 5.0
- My score: 6
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- Best start word performance*: TRICE (52 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: RELAY (237)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1218) was… FIBER.
This was probably the closest I’ve come to failing at Wordle since PARER, officially the hardest Wordle yet, back in September 2022. And I lay the blame entirely on the American language.
Actually, that’s not fair – the English language is equally to blame, because FIBER is spelled as FIBRE here in the UK, where I am. They’re equally legitimate ways to write it, but the latter is obviously far more familiar to me. And that difference nearly caused me to lose my 1,020-game streak.
It looks like I’m not the only one caught out by that spelling, because FIBER has an average score of 5.0 at the time of writing, which would make it an uncommonly difficult Wordle were it not for that fact that we just had CORER (5.7) and MOMMY (another 5.0). Actually, scratch that – it is still uncommonly difficult, given that it’s one of only nine answers to reach the 5.0 range in 2024.
I suspect that average may come down a little, as those of you in the States wake up and play, but even if that is the case the score will likely stay high, because it is after all an ER word – and they are almost always tricky to solve. That was arguably more true yesterday than it is with some ER words, because the letters F and B are not massively common compared to some that could appear there. NICER, for instance, only had an average of 3.9 when it appeared in May (game #1066).
Hard though it is, I shouldn’t really have got to the point at which I very nearly failed. The frustrating thing is that I was in a decent position after my second guess. Not my first, admittedly – RELAY left me 237 possible answers – but by the time I’d followed up with TRICE I only had 28 words left.
I knew it was likely an ER word by this point, and in fact I’d suspected that after my opening guess. But the problem was that the words left on my shortlist contained so many different consonants: B, D, F, G, H, K, M, N, P, S, V, W and X could all still feature.
My approach had to be to try to rule out the most likely ones with a narrowing-down word, so I played GIVEN. WordleBot was fairly unimpressed, and with good reason given that it only cut the options to 19. That said, five of those 19 were ED words that weren’t on my list, because I know they are very unlikely.
I still needed another narrowing-down word, then, and this time played WHOMP – it would point the way to WIDER/WISER/WIPER, MISER/MIXER, HIKER/HIRER/HIDER, or PIPER. This time WordleBot liked it, but it was a little unlucky and still left six. Or at least that was what the ‘bot said afterwards – I only had three, FIXER, BIKER and EIDER, on my list, having ruled out SIRED and FIRED as ED words. And of course I’d also missed FIBER because, y’know, it isn’t a spelling I would naturally think of.
Given the trio of words that were on my list I decided to play FORKS, because it would – finally – guarantee a solve on the next guess. And, when the F turned green, I thought I had my answer.
In fact, I was all set to play FIXER. I came so close. I’d typed it in and was literally about to press return when my daughter, who was sitting beside me, pointed out that if I was wrong I would lose my streak. The smirk on her face indicated clearly that she rather hoped I would get it wrong. So I hesitated and did one final check, putting all the remaining letters into the blank middle spot. FIQER – no. FIUER – no. FIJER – no. FIFER – no. FIDER – no. FIZER – no. And finally, FIBER – no. But actually, hang on… because Americans spell it as FIBER. IT COULD BE EITHER ONE!
This was a disaster, as I now had a 50/50 that could easily be wrong. So I did what I never usually do, and checked my list of past Wordle answers. And to my massive relief, there was FIXER – the solution to game #143 in November 2021. This was a word that played via the Wordle Archive (it appeared slightly before I began playing for real) and that I scored a six on. And there it was, confirming that the answer had to be FIBER after all.
I played that next and have (almost) never been so relieved to see all five letters turn green. Phew!
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 #1218, Saturday 19 October: FIBER
- Wordle #1217, Friday 18 October: STINT
- Wordle #1216, Thursday 17 October: HALVE
- Wordle #1215, Wednesday 16 October: GRANT
- Wordle #1214, Tuesday 15 October: CORER
- Wordle #1213, Monday 14 October: GAMUT
- Wordle #1212, Sunday 13 October: PRONE
- Wordle #1211, Saturday 12 October: STAIN
- Wordle #1210, Friday 11 October: GUSTY
- Wordle #1209, Thursday 10 October: CARVE
- Wordle #1208, Wednesday 9 October: MOMMY
- Wordle #1207, Tuesday 8 October: JOINT
- Wordle #1206, Monday 7 October: FLOUR
- Wordle #1205, Sunday 6 October: LAGER
- Wordle #1204, Saturday 5 October: MINER
- Wordle #1203, Friday 4 October: TITLE
- Wordle #1202, Thursday 3 October: WAGON
- Wordle #1201, Wednesday 2 October: SHELL
- Wordle #1200, Tuesday 1 October: MODEM
- Wordle #1199, Monday 30 September: CLOUD
- Wordle #1198, Sunday 29 September: RIDER
- Wordle #1197, Saturday 28 September: BRAIN
- Wordle #1196, Friday 27 September: FAITH
- Wordle #1195, Thursday 26 September: THANK
- Wordle #1194, Wednesday 25 September: TORCH
- Wordle #1193, Tuesday 24 September: HANDY
- Wordle #1192, Monday 23 September: STEAM
- Wordle #1191, Sunday 22 September: TEACH
- Wordle #1190, Saturday 21 September: SEVEN
- Wordle #1189, Friday 20 September: SMOKE
- Wordle #1188, Thursday 19 September: PRESS
- Wordle #1187, Wednesday 18 September: FULLY
- Wordle #1186, Tuesday 17 September: BEAUT
- Wordle #1185, Monday 16 September: HONEY
- Wordle #1184, Sunday 15 September: RECUR
- Wordle #1183, Saturday 14 September: BROAD
- Wordle #1182, Friday 13 September: HARSH
- Wordle #1181, Thursday 12 September: BRASS
- Wordle #1180, Wednesday 11 September: AISLE
- Wordle #1179, Tuesday 10 September: REBEL
- Wordle #1178, Monday 9 September: DEBIT
- Wordle #1177, Sunday 8 September: DRAWN
- Wordle #1176, Saturday 7 September: OWNER
- Wordle #1175, Friday 6 September: RERUN
- Wordle #1174, Thursday 5 September: WIDEN
- Wordle #1173, Wednesday 4 September: STERN
- Wordle #1172, Tuesday 3 September: FAINT
- Wordle #1171, Monday 2 September: CAMEL
- Wordle #1170, Sunday 1 September: MUSHY
- Wordle #1169, Saturday 31 August: SPOUT
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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