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.
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 #1307) – clue #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has 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).
Wordle hints (game #1307) – 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 #1307) – 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 #1307) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is T.
T is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – in fact only E and Y are more likely in that position.
Wordle hints (game #1307) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1307.
- Today’s Wordle answer produces a spark.
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 #1307)
- NYT average score: 3.6
- My score: 2
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- Best start word performance*: SAINT (6 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: EDIFY (12)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1307) is… FLINT.
Before I start today’s column proper I want to draw your attention to the fact that TechRadar now (finally) has a commenting system. And that means that rather than emailing me, and potentially waiting days for a reply, you can have a little chat about the game in the comments below (then wait days for me to reply in there, instead). Exciting!
Not that I’ll have a lot to say about today’s game, because for me at least it was really rather easy. In fact, for most people by the looks of it – it currently has an average score of 3.6, which is not quite as low as CLOAK on Monday (3.4), but certainly well below the standard.
It’s easy to see why: it’s made up of four very common letters and one (F) that generally appears infrequently, but that is far more likely to turn up at the start of a word than it is to do so elsewhere.
As my analysis of every Wordle answer shows, F ranks seventh at the start of an answer, behind S, C, B, T, A and P. What’s more, that FL combination is also the seventh most likely; many regular players will have spotted the possibility of the F being there once they had the L (for instance if they started with SLATE).
SLATE was one of the best opening words today, cutting the answers pool to seven (as did PLATE), but SAINT was even more successful, leaving only six. I wasn’t quite so fortunate, but still did rather well despite being given what looked like an unpromising word in the form of EDIFY.
WordleBot rates that as 73/99, which is not terrible, but bear in mind that the expected number of solutions after I played it was 332 and it doesn’t look so useful. CRANE, in contrast, has an expected score of 116.
Still, you have to ride your luck in Wordle, and I did so today. Rather than leaving me with 300+ possible answers, EDIFY cut the shortlist to 12 and I did the rest.
I started by identifying as many of those 12 as I could (although of course I didn’t know there were 12 of them at the time), and came up with 10: FRISK, FRIZZ, FAITH, FAINT, FLICK, FLING, FLIRT, FOIST, FLINT and FRILL. The two I missed were FRITZ (really?) and FRIAR (fair enough, I should have spotted this).
This wasn’t a tough task, because the F was always likely to be at the start (as discussed above), and the only letters that could go between the F and I were L, R and my remaining vowels.
Simple trial and error got me to those 10 words, then, but I employed slightly more complicated tactics to decide which to play. In this sort of situation I would usually eschew the chance of a 2/6 in favor of playing a narrowing-down word to guarantee a 3/6 at worst. But today, I went through each of my 10 options and worked out how many words they would leave if they were wrong. FLINT was the best of them, because it would merely leave me a 50/50 if the answer were FRIZZ or FRISK but otherwise still guarantee me that three.
As it turned out, my calculations were slightly off; the fact that I hadn’t spotted FRIAR meant it could actually have been a three-way guess next. But that scenario didn’t play out, with all five letters of FLINT instead turning green and giving me my first two of 2025.
How did you do today? Send me an email or let me know in the comments.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1306)
In a different time zone where it’s still Wednesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1306, 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 K.
K is not a common starting letter in Wordle by any measure. In fact it ranks 22nd out of 26; a mere 20 answers begin with a K.
- 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 K.
K is much more common at the end of a Wordle answer than at the start, and in fact ranks ninth overall in this regard.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1306.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a clever way of doing something.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1306)
- NYT average score: 4.0 (revised)
- My score: 3
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- Best start word performance*: CRANE, SNARE (2 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: PASTY (327)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1306) was… KNACK.
K is one of 17 letters that starts and ends a Wordle answer, a fact I didn’t know until I consulted my Giant Spreadsheet Of Wordle Data and did a little digging. It’s not a particularly common one, though: there are only four such answers among the 2,309 on the original list. R is the most likely; there are 19 of these, probably because of the likelihood of that format appearing in ER answers – think RUDER, RIPER, ROVER, REFER and RIDER, all of which have already been solutions. T (17) and E (15) are also very common at both ends, but at the other end of the scale the letters B, F, G, N and W each only have one such bookended solution.
The good news, if you found this game to be difficult, is that this is theoretically the last to have the K—K format: we’ve already seen KNOCK (game #531), KIOSK (#610) and KAYAK (#671) appear. I say theoretically, because the NYT could add in another K—K word that wasn’t on the original list, but I’m not sure what it would be. I can’t think of any.
Some people definitely won’t have found it too difficult, because CRANE left only two possible answers (ditto the less popular SNARE). Given that the average is 3.9 despite CRANE’s helpfulness (note – revised to 4.0), I suspect some people will have struggled here. After all, not only is there the repeated K to contend with, but also the fact that it’s a KN word; that’s one of those letter formats that doesn’t spring readily to the mind, in my experience. See also GN and any others that have a silent first letter.
In contrast to WordleBot, which had only those two words to choose between for its second guess, I had a slightly larger pool of, er, 327. Thanks, Random Word Generator. That was not a particularly promising start, but amazingly I picked the best possible option for my second in the form of, yes, CRANE.
This left me with only one valid answer, so I was able to play KNACK next for another welcome 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 #1306, Wednesday 15 January: KNACK
- Wordle #1305, Tuesday 14 January: FANCY
- Wordle #1304, Monday 13 January: CLOAK
- Wordle #1303, Sunday 12 January: TOTAL
- Wordle #1302, Saturday 11 January: DINGY
- Wordle #1301, Friday 10 January: CRAWL
- Wordle #1300, Thursday 9 January: WAFER
- Wordle #1299, Wednesday 8 January: DRAFT
- Wordle #1298, Tuesday 7 January: ATLAS
- Wordle #1297, Monday 6 January: SPRIG
- Wordle #1296, Sunday 5 January: CYBER
- Wordle #1295, Saturday 4 January: RELAX
- Wordle #1294, Friday 3 January: CHEAP
- Wordle #1293, Thursday 2 January: CHOSE
- Wordle #1292, Wednesday 1 January: NERVE
- Wordle #1291, Tuesday 31 December: LEMUR
- Wordle #1290, Monday 30 December: STARE
- Wordle #1289, Sunday 29 December: MAMBO
- Wordle #1288, Saturday 28 December: DECRY
- Wordle #1287, Friday 27 December: GRAIN
- Wordle #1286, Thursday 26 December: AFFIX
- Wordle #1285, Wednesday 25 December: SHARE
- Wordle #1284, Tuesday 24 December: EAGLE
- Wordle #1283, Monday 23 December: SAUNA
- Wordle #1282, Sunday 22 December: BRAWN
- Wordle #1281, Saturday 21 December: BLADE
- Wordle #1280, Friday 20 December: FLASH
- Wordle #1279, Thursday 19 December: STRAY
- Wordle #1278, Wednesday 18 December: HEFTY
- Wordle #1277, Tuesday 17 December: SCOWL
- Wordle #1276, Monday 16 December: BOAST
- Wordle #1275, Sunday 15 December: FUNKY
- Wordle #1274, Saturday 14 December: DROOL
- Wordle #1273, Friday 13 December: BOXER
- Wordle #1272, Thursday 12 December: VYING
- Wordle #1271, Wednesday 11 December: PLUMB
- Wordle #1270, Tuesday 10 December: PATIO
- Wordle #1269, Monday 9 December: FLUNG
- Wordle #1268, Sunday 8 December: HYENA
- Wordle #1267, Saturday 7 December: HILLY
- Wordle #1266, Friday 6 December: SHOVE
- Wordle #1265, Thursday 5 December: ENDOW
- Wordle #1264, Wednesday 4 December: CRYPT
- Wordle #1263, Tuesday 3 December: SHAKY
- Wordle #1262, Monday 2 December: GUILE
- Wordle #1261, Sunday 1 December: MAUVE
- Wordle #1260, Saturday 30 November: DOGMA
- Wordle #1259, Friday 29 November: HIPPO
- Wordle #1258, Thursday 28 November: CHOCK
- Wordle #1257, Wednesday 27 November: SLANG
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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