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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 #1376) – 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 #1376) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is E.
We don’t get many Wordle answers that start with an E – though it’s the most common letter in the game, it’s only the 14th most likely to begin a solution.
Wordle hints (game #1376) – 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 #1376) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is W.
W is an uncommon ending letter in Wordle. A mere 17 games finish with one, out of 2,309 original answers.
Wordle hints (game #1376) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1376.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a part of the body.
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 #1376)
- NYT average score: 4.0
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- My start word performance: SANER (181 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (273)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1376) is… ELBOW.
It’s a curious fact about the letter E that it starts so few Wordle answers.
This is a letter that appears 1,230 times across the original 2,309 solutions – meaning that you’d expect one in every other game. Yet it only turns up 72 times at the start.
This is actually a common trait among vowels. A is the only one of them to be found regularly at the start; 14% of its appearances come in that position, versus a little under 6% for E. O, U and I are all in the same ballpark as E.
It’s definitely something to bear in mind when making your guesses, because a green letter is always more helpful than a yellow (unless you are playing on Hard mode, arguably). Play an E in the fourth or fifth positions and it will be far more likely to be correct.
Although that said, today it was helpful to play it at the start, so it’s a reminder that probability never guarantees anything!
The B in the middle and the W at the end won’t have helped here either, but at least there are not too many other words spelled anything like ELBOW. That probably explains why it has a relatively high average of 4.0, but not a super-high 4.5 or whatever.
My game began fairly badly, with SANER giving me that yellow E but nothing more, and leaving 181 answers. But it got a lot better with my second, GLIDE, which cut that to just four.
Those four should have been easy to find: CLEFT, ELECT, ELBOW and FLECK. However, I only came up with the first two of those myself, which was a little disappointing to learn after the game. I really need to get better with my word finding.
Still, it didn’t hurt me. I played CLEFT and though it was wrong it did point the way to the answer anyway. After another scan of the board I found ELBOW and scored a par four.
How did you do today? Send me an email or let me know in the comments.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1375)
In a different time zone where it’s still Tuesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1375, 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 F.
F is not a particularly common ending letter in Wordle. It only ranks 17th in this regard, and a mere 26 of the 2,000-plus original Wordle answers end in this letter.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1375.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a horizontal storage or display item.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1375)
- NYT average score: 4.0
- My score: 3
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- My start word performance: MOTIF (14 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (273)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1375) was… SHELF.
My random-word-as-opening-guess approach doesn’t often yield the best results, but when it comes off the feeling is so sweet that it’s almost worth all of those zero-letter wipe-outs.
Yesterday was one such example, with my random word generator serving me up MOTIF on a day when the solution was SHELF.
Did you know that there are only 26 words among Wordle’s 2,309 original solutions that end in an F? It’s a fact I include in my analysis of every Wordle answer, but I didn’t need to remember the detail to know that there are not many of them.
Many end in a double-F – for instance FLUFF, BLUFF, STAFF, WHIFF, STIFF, SKIFF and SCOFF, all of which have already been answers.
Other F-ending words that have been past Wordle answers include DWARF, CHIEF, THIEF, SCARF, GRIEF, BRIEF and ALOOF; SHELF is the 15th, then, so there are at least 11 still to come.
The rarity of that final letter is probably what propelled SHELF to a reasonably high average score of 4.0 yesterday. Many of the best Wordle start words performed well enough – STARE left 29 and SLATE only eight, for instance – but none will have had that F in place.
My MOTIF did, and that left me a mere 14 to play with. But I’d rather have had 14 with a green F than eight without it, frankly.
All I needed to do was find them, a task I was only moderately successful at. I came up with nine: FLUFF, BLUFF, QUAFF, SCUFF, SNUFF, CHAFF, SHEAF, SCARF and WHARF, but missed DWARF, GRUFF, DECAF and SNARF. Oh, and SHELF, the eventual answer. Whoops!
SCARF was a decent enough second guess, but could have left me with one of three 50/50s. That was almost unavoidable, though; WordleBot suggested BRASH, but that still could have left one of two 50/50s, so was only a little better and couldn’t possibly be correct.
SCARF was not correct, of course, and it did leave me a 50/50 – SHELF or SNUFF. At first I thought the latter was the only option – because I hadn’t thought of SHELF yet – but I took another look before I played, and I’m glad I did.
SHELF seemed a fair more likely answer than SNUFF, so I played that instead and scored a lucky three.
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 #1375, Tuesday 25 March: SHELF
- Wordle #1374, Monday 24 March: ANGLE
- Wordle #1373, Sunday 23 March: DOPEY
- 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
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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