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.
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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 #1331) – 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 #1331) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is B.
B is a very, very common starting letter in Wordle. In fact, it’s the third most common overall, behind only S and C.
Wordle hints (game #1331) – 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 #1331) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is S.
S is really not a common ending letter at all – mainly because Wordle generally doesn’t allow plurals. It’s the 15th most likely letter to appear at the end of an answer.
Wordle hints (game #1331) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1331.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a little extra.
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 #1331)
- NYT average score: 3.8
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- My start word performance: ANGLE (138 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (81)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1331) is… BONUS.
Everyone loves a BONUS. Whether it’s a financial BONUS at the end of a quarter or a BONUS win at Wordle when you were expecting a loss. Not that today’s game should see too many losses, because this isn’t a particularly difficult one.
It does have a relatively rare S at the end, though. There’s a huge disparity between the number of times S starts an answer compared to the times it finishes one, largely because plurals do not (generally) appear in Wordle. And plurals aside, S is just not a common letter to end a word. That can make it difficult to find it when it does happen; if your brain is like mine, it just won’t expect it.
Still, an average score of 3.8 implies it’s at worst a middling Wordle, difficulty wise. I doubt there will be many twos, but there will be plenty of threes and lots of fours. Start words were not a huge factor; SAINT (11), SNARE (7) and SANER (2) were all successful, but none are widely played, and the likes of CRANE (81), SLATE (62) and STARE (54) were more representative.
I had 138 to whittle down, after ANGLE gave me a sole yellow N to play with. With A and E ruled out, I wanted a couple more vowels in there, so played POINT and cut the shortlist to 10.
Next, I had to switch my brain to US English rather than my natural British, in order to spot HONOR, though DONOR, WONKY, MOURN, BONUS and BOSON all sprang more readily to mind. I missed four, though: CONCH, MORON, BORON and CONDO. Is MORON really going to be a Wordle answer? I’d be surprised.
I thought that DONOR might leave me a 50/50 between BONUS and WONKY, but I was fine with that. And that’s exactly what happened when the N turned green but the D and R went gray.
However, it turned out that really I had a three-way with CONCH too. This could have come back to haunt me – I might easily have guessed BONUS first, then WONKY, and been left none the wiser about the existence of CONCH until the sixth guess. Fortunately, that didn’t happen. I played BONUS as the more obvious word and scored a standard four.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1330)
In a different time zone where it’s still Saturday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1330, 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 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.
- 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 P.
P is a middling end letter in Wordle. It features in 56 answers, which places it 12th in the alphabet. Don’t expect it to happen that often compared to the likes of E, Y and T.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1330.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer has a high gradient.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1330)
- NYT average score: 3.6
- My score: 3
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- Best start word performance*: STARE (6 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: TENOR (112)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1330) was… STEEP.
ST is the most common starting combination in the game and E is both the most common letter overall, and most likely to be repeated. So it’s no surprise to me that STEEP has a low average score of 3.6.
The result for one of the best Wordle start words, STARE, will also have played its part – it left only six possible answers. STEED, STEEL, STEEP, STEIN and STENT were five of them, but I’m not sure what the sixth was; STENO, maybe?
Unfortunately for me, I had a rather larger pool of words to work with at that stage, because my opening guess TENOR left 112 options. This was better than other recent games, but still about 100 more than I’d have liked.
Still, I had two yellow letters, and immediately thought to play STALE as it placed the E in its most common position and paired the T with the S for that oft-seen opening combo. And it worked, with the S and T turning green. The E stayed yellow, and that led me to STEEP and STEED as the only remaining answers.
Which to chose? Well, I couldn’t recall either being a past Wordle answer, and didn’t consult the list. I looked afterwards, though, and STEED had already been a solution – game #125, way back in Wordle’s early days.
None of that mattered, because STEEP seemed a more likely answer, and it gave me my first three this month. Phew!
Wordle answers: The past 50
I’ve been playing Wordle every day for more than three 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 #1330, Saturday 8 February: STEEP
- Wordle #1329, Friday 7 February: SWATH
- Wordle #1328, Thursday 6 February: PUPIL
- Wordle #1327, Wednesday 5 February: PEDAL
- Wordle #1326, Tuesday 4 February: TOOTH
- Wordle #1325, Monday 3 February: REVUE
- Wordle #1324, Sunday 2 February: CHORE
- Wordle #1323, Saturday 1 February: RIVET
- Wordle #1322, Friday 31 January: TOAST
- Wordle #1321, Thursday 30 January: FALSE
- Wordle #1320, Wednesday 29 January: UDDER
- Wordle #1319, Tuesday 28 January: FEVER
- Wordle #1318, Monday 27 January: SHUNT
- Wordle #1317, Sunday 26 January: SUNNY
- Wordle #1316, Saturday 25 January: CRISP
- Wordle #1315, Friday 24 January: CREPE
- Wordle #1314, Thursday 23 January: UPPER
- Wordle #1313, Wedneday 22 January: REACH
- Wordle #1312, Tuesday 21 January: ICING
- Wordle #1311, Monday 20 January: SQUID
- Wordle #1310, Sunday 19 January: ROWER
- Wordle #1309, Saturday 18 January: SILLY
- Wordle #1308, Friday 17 January: PROSE
- Wordle #1307, Thursday 16 January: FLINT
- 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
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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