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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.
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.
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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 #1373) – 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 #1373) – 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 #1373) – 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 #1373) – 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 #1373) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1373.
- Today’s Wordle answer is not very smart.
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 #1373)
- NYT average score: 4.1
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- My start word performance: BLANK (863 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (273)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1373) is… DOPEY.
There have been many times when DOPEY would be the perfect word to describe my Wordle play. You know, those days when I miss a really, really obvious solution or play a letter that has already been ruled out. It happens to us all.
Fortunately, today was not one of those for me. I scored a four, against an average of 4.1, and after a particularly poor first guess. So I’ll take that.
That said, it owed a fair bit to luck. The ‘Bot awarded me 98 out of 99 for skill, but I fear it’s being uncharacteristically generous on this occasion. My play was not exactly DOPEY, no, but it was no better than adequate really.
The fact that the average is once again above 4.0 points to this being a fairly tricky puzzle, but none of the individual constituents are that challenging – there are no uncommon letters, no words that are spelled in a very similar way other than the pretty unlikely MOPEY and DOPER.
My guess is that people just didn’t think about it until fairly late on. It’s not that common of a word, and the EY ending is not all the likely either; there are 13 of them in total.
I always find Y words slightly harder to solve, probably because Y is a letter you’d only play if you thought it was going to appear at the end. With the likes of R and L and T there are multiple places they regularly turn up, so it makes sense to play them early. With Y, it’s something you go with if you have a strong hunch.
I didn’t have that hunch until late on, and spent the first couple of guesses looking for the ending letter.
My opening BLANK ruled out L, N and K, all of which often appear there, and left 863 options. My follow up, TRICE, removed T and R entirely, and confirmed that the E wouldn’t go there either (it turned yellow).
I still had 55 words left to choose from at this stage, said WordleBot. In reality, it was a lot less – more than half of the ‘Bot’s solutions were ED words which will almost certainly not be answers.
I played an ED word for my third guess nonetheless, but it was a different type: SPEED is a verb or a noun but not a past participle of the kind that are not generally included in the game.
The repeated E was a bit of a risk, but I wanted to establish where it went as soon as I could, and some of the words I’d identified did have more than one of them: SHEEP, SWEEP, SEEDY and WEEDY, for instance. I had a handful of others including MESSY and POESY, but nowhere near as many as I should have had.
Still, SPEED ended up being the perfect word to play. The yellow D at the end ruled out all of the ED-ending words, the lack of repeated E ruled out a few more, and together with the yellow P that left only one solution.
That was DOPEY, so I played it next for my four.
How did you do today? Send me an email or let me know in the comments.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1372)
In a different time zone where it’s still Saturday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1372, 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 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.
- 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 #1372.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is to walk slowly.
Yesterday’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)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1372) was… 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 yesterday – 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?
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 #1372, Saturday 22 March: AMBLE
- 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
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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