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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.
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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 #1370) – 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 #1370) – 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 #1370) – 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 #1370) – 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 #1370) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1370.
- Today’s Wordle answer is to cover food with liquid.
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 #1370)
- NYT average score: 4.8
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- My start word performance: GRAFT (100 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (57)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1370) is… BASTE.
Looks like we have ourselves a tough one.
BASTE currently has an average score of 4.8, making it the equal fourth hardest Wordle so far in 2025. Only ROWER (5.6), FUZZY (5.1), WAFER (5.0) have been more difficult, while GOODY also came in at 4.8.
The problem is an obvious one – it’s one of those too-many-answers Wordles we all love to hate.
In this case, your choice was between WASTE, TASTE, PASTE, HASTE, CASTE and BASTE, so six differing only by that first letter.
That’s not the worst – the -ATCH format has seven (WATCH, PATCH, LATCH, HATCH, MATCH, BATCH and CATCH), while -OUND has eight (WOUND, ROUND, POUND, HOUND, FOUND, SOUND, MOUND and BOUND).
It’s certainly up there, though, especially when you consider that a Y on the end could also give you the likes of NASTY, TASTY and HASTY.
I’m pretty pleased to have escaped with a four, helped by a lucky second guess. My first was not so great – CRAFT left 100 solutions exactly, which was nearly double what CRANE left (57).
The real winners among the best Wordle start words today were SLATE and STARE, though; both left only six words.
The fact that even the players of those words still needed on average 4.2 guesses shows how tricky this one is. Well, unless you played sensibly and narrowed down your options of course.
I didn’t do that on my second guess, because I could see I had far too many words to pick from. Instead, I just played the obvious STEAL. This gave me four yellows and left seven words.
The only problem was that six of them were among those -ASTE words, with the other apparently being TASED. I didn’t find the latter – and I’m pretty sure it won’t be a solution ever – but did come up with PASTE, WASTE, HASTE, TASTE, CASTE and BASTE.
The trouble was that there was no word that would guarantee me the answer in four. The best I could do was PATCH, which might leave a three-way between TASTE, WASTE and BASTE (plus TASED, officially).
Fortunately, I was pretty sure that TASTE and WASTE had both been past Wordle answers.
I didn’t check, but I had a strong hunch and decided to risk a guess on the fourth go, knowing that even if wrong I wasn’t in danger of losing my streak (a six would have been the worst I could get).
As it happened, my memory was correct – a fact that was confirmed when I played BASTE on my fourth guess and with relief saw all five letters turn green.
How did you do today? Send me an email or let me know in the comments.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1369)
In a different time zone where it’s still Wednesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wednesday’s Wordle #1369, 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 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 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 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 #1369.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer gets things started.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1369)
- NYT average score: 3.5
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- My start word performance: NOISY (199 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (27)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1369) was… SPARK.
I am proclaiming this to be Moral Victory in Wordle Day, because though WordleBot and I ended up with the same 4/6 score for SPARK, my start word left a far greater number of possible solutions.
On the other hand, maybe we should both be castigated for only scoring a four on a day when the average is a half guess lower at 3.5.
That said, the performance of STARE – one of the best Wordle start words and one of the most popular will have skewed things today. That left only 12 options, and a very good chance of a three so long as you sensibly narrowed them down on the second guess. It’s easyish, sure, but I’m not sure it’s a 3.5 game in reality.
The thing about S-starting Wordles is that there are too many letters that can appear in the second position. There are 16 of them: T, H, P, L, N, C, M, W, K, Q, Y, A, E, I, O and U.
That’s more than half of the total number of letters available, meaning you may well not know where to start (hint – not with the likes of SK or SQ, because they are a lot less likely than ST, SH and SP).
Contrast that with a letter like T or C and you can see the problem; they are both only followed by nine other letters.
That, I’m sure, is why S is by far the most common starting letter – it’s a sociable thing, the kind that can talk to everyone at a party rather than standing alone in the corner waiting for the one person it knows, like a Q (or me).
Anyway, if your start word began with an S and also ruled out other possible second letters, as STARE did, you’ll have had a good chance of solving this swiftly. If not, you might have needed a while longer.
My opening word was NOISY, which was not a disaster at all despite leaving 199 options. It did give me an S, and although it was yellow I never had any doubt that it would go at the start.
I confirmed that on the second guess with STARE – just call me Captain Obvious – and that gave me two more greens.
With three letters in place and six others ruled out, I was slightly surprised to find out that I still had quite a few words left, but I did: eight according to WordleBot, seven according to my brain.
I found SCARP, SCARF, SPARK, SHARK, SHARD, SHARP and SWARM, with the missing link being SMARM, which I don’t really feel like I should have found. I mean it’s not a real word, is it? Sure, Merriam-Webster dictionary disagrees, but I’d only ever use it as SMARMY, not SMARM. Maybe that’s just me.
My third guess, CHAMP, was not guaranteed to find the answer, because it might have left a 50/50 between SHARK and SHARD. But that was true of WordleBot’s suggested WHOMP, too, and as it happened both left just the one answer.
That was SPARK, so I played it next for my four.
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 #1369, Wednesday 19 March: SPARK
- Wordle #1368, Tuesday 18 March: TIMER
- Wordle #1367, Monday 17 March: LASSO
- Wordle #1366, Sunday 16 March: STAMP
- Wordle #1365, Saturday 15 March: LADLE
- Wordle #1364, Friday 14 March: PIECE
- Wordle #1363, Thursday 13 March: CHASE
- Wordle #1362, Wednesday 12 March: MANGO
- Wordle #1361, Tuesday 11 March: TRACK
- Wordle #1360, Monday 10 March: SPITE
- Wordle #1359, Sunday 9 March: GREED
- Wordle #1358, Saturday 8 March: NAVEL
- Wordle #1357, Friday 7 March: TROOP
- Wordle #1356, Thursday 6 March: ALERT
- Wordle #1355, Wednesday 5 March: SCRUM
- Wordle #1354, Tuesday 4 March: CHECK
- Wordle #1353, Monday 3 March: SPEAR
- Wordle #1352, Sunday 2 March: DEITY
- Wordle #1351, Saturday 1 March: HOVER
- Wordle #1350, Friday 28 February: FUZZY
- Wordle #1349, Thursday 27 February: LODGE
- Wordle #1348, Wednesday 26 February: AWARD
- Wordle #1347, Tuesday 25 February: DRYER
- Wordle #1346, Monday 24 February: GLAND
- Wordle #1345, Sunday 23 February: OTTER
- Wordle #1344, Saturday 22 February: CREAM
- Wordle #1343, Friday 21 February: CLOVE
- Wordle #1342, Thursday 20 February: ROACH
- Wordle #1341, Wednesday 19 February: MADLY
- Wordle #1340, Tuesday 18 February: INDIE
- Wordle #1339, Monday 17 February: TRAIL
- Wordle #1338, Sunday 16 February: SUAVE
- Wordle #1337, Saturday 15 February: CROOK
- Wordle #1336, Friday 14 February: DITTY
- Wordle #1335, Thursday 13 February: RUMBA
- Wordle #1334, Wednesday 12 February: RAPID
- Wordle #1333, Tuesday 11 February: SCORE
- Wordle #1332, Monday 10 February: GOODY
- Wordle #1331, Sunday 9 February: BONUS
- 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
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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