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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 #1372) – 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 #1372) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is A.
A is a reasonably common starting letter in Wordle: 140 games begin with this letter. It ranks 6th among starting letters, behind S, C, B, T and P.
Wordle hints (game #1372) – 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 #1372) – 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 #1372) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1372.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a slow walk.
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 #1372)
- NYT average score: 4.3
- My score: 3
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- My start word performance: PRAWN (344 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (57)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1372) is… AMBLE.
I would love to be one of those people who can AMBLE, but unfortunately I am cursed with the need to do what is best described as scuttle from place to place. No leisurely stroll for me; if I have somewhere to go, I always do so at the fastest speed I can without breaking into a run.
That’s the opposite of what I usually do in Wordle, where I tend to take my time over every guess, analyzing the possibilities and making sure I don’t make mistakes.
But I didn’t do that today – no, I rushed my game in an uncharacteristic way. And amazingly, it led me to a three – my first three since Monday’s LASSO.
I’m not really sure how, because I didn’t have a good start word and AMBLE is a difficult Wordle. The ‘Bot says it has an average score of 4.3, which is the same as that for yesterday’s NUDGE.
There’s nothing obviously difficult about it – four of the five letters are very common, with M the outlier. But even that is not uncommon in the way that X or J is.
My guess is that its similarity with AMPLE and to an extent APPLE is what has caused it to have such a high average. I don’t see it as a streak killer, but it must be one that plenty of people are needing five or six guesses to solve.
I began today with PRAWN, which didn’t work too well in that it only gave me a yellow A and left 300-plus options.
I turned to SALET, next – that word which I don’t know the meaning of, but which I know is a great start word and therefore a great second word when I don’t have many letters.
SALET was a little unlucky, and still left 15 solutions. But here my luck turned. I was in a rush to play – it’s a Saturday, after all, I had things to do – and didn’t look properly at my options.
However, I spotted AMBLE right away and decided it would be another good narrowing-down word. I didn’t overthink it, for once, and instead just played it.
This really could have hurt me, not least because it might have left as many as five answers still, depending on what the answer actually was. But amazingly, it turned out to be correct. Maybe I should just rush my games more often?
How did you do today? Send me an email or let me know in the comments.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1371)
In a different time zone where it’s still Friday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1371, 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 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.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1371.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is to push gently.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1371)
- NYT average score: 4.3
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- My start word performance: PIZZA (1,022 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (24)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1371) was… NUDGE.
A tricky end to the working week culminates in a puzzle with an average of 4.3, following the 4.8 for Thursday’s BASTE.
NUDGE has some of the same qualities – namely that too-many-answers problem that afflicts so many of the toughest Wordles. Or rather, that afflicts so many Wordles that have a high average score.
Those two things are not necessarily the same. NUDGE, like BASTE, can be solved relatively easily if you do not play on hard mode. The problem is that even now, three years after the game rose in prominence, people still play with no strategy beyond blindly guessing.
Let’s not get too serious about this – it is only a game, after all. But I don’t understand why, when faced with a word like NUDGE, people guess the likes of FUDGE and JUDGE and BUDGE on successive guesses – and they did, in fairly high numbers – rather than playing a single word that narrows down the four major possibles here.
All you needed was to play BANJO and you’d rule out three and be sure to get the answer next time around. But instead people take that -UDGE format as a challenge.
Or not, maybe it’s just that lots of people had a 50/50 between NUDGE and BUDGE and chose the wrong one, and I’m being far too critical. Probably a bit of both.
I didn’t need to narrow down the options in that way myself, because the -UDGE format never came into play for me until the end.
I began with PIZZA – which is emphatically not one of the best Wordle start words – and had more than 1,000 possible answers to choose from for my second.
Obviously I made a list of all 1,022, missing only… no, of course I didn’t. I played STORE.
This was a “terrific choice” according to WordleBot, but it still left 35 answers. I did have a green E in place at the end, but nothing more and still plenty of possible solutions.
That E was likely to be preceded by a consonant, and I guessed that it would be one of C, N or G, as these featured in lots of my now-shortlisted words: LEDGE and LUNGE and DUNCE and HEDGE and FENCE and BULGE and so on.
So I played CLUNG, and that did the job – it gave me three yellow letters, and after toying with them for a while I decided that NUDGE had to be the answer and was rewarded with a 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 #1371, Friday 21 March: NUDGE
- Wordle #1370, Thursday 20 March: BASTE
- 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
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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