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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 #1416) – clue #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has 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).
Wordle hints (game #1416) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is 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.
Wordle hints (game #1416) – clue #3 – repeated letters
Does today’s Wordle have any repeated letters?
• There are 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 #1416) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is H.
H is a regular visitor to the final spot in a Wordle word. It occurs 137 times at the end of a Wordle answer, making it the sixth most common letter there.
Wordle hints (game #1416) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1416.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a quietening sound.
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 #1416)
- NYT average score: 4.3
- My score: 3
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- My skill score: 97
- My luck score: 63
- My start word performance: HASTY (46 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (356)
- Tomorrow’s start word: ROAST
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1416) is… SHUSH.
SHUSH is one of a very, very rare subset of Wordle words that contains two repeated letters – and an even rarer one that has the same starting and ending combination.
There are only 38 solutions among the original list of 2,309 Wordle answers that contain a double repeat, which is a little under 2% of all games. But words that start and end in the same way… well, there are only six of them. And remarkably, we’ve now had them all.
Weirder still is the fact that the other five all appeared in 200-game run in late 2023 and early 2024: SALSA (game #606), MAGMA (#791), VERVE (#795), ONION (#805) and SENSE (#983).
SHUSH completes the sextet, meaning you won’t have to worry about any others turning up; well, unless the NYT adds one later, which is entirely possible.
That said, there is another subset to worry about – which is starting and ending combinations where the ending pair is reversed, for instance CIVIC (game #96). There have been three others of these, MADAM (#387), KAYAK (#671) and REFER (#1126), but I believe there are at least five more still to come…
I suspect that some people will have lost their streak today, given that SHUSH has an average score of 4.3 at the time of writing. And that’s despite RAISE and ARISE, two of the most popular start words, each cutting the number of possible answers to 22.
My start word, chosen randomly, was HASTY; not a bad one, and it performed pretty well too, in cutting the options list to 46.
Better still, my yellow letters were S and H – which together form the second most common starting combo, and 27th most likely at the end.
That made it pretty easy to draw up a list of options, because my brain loves a nice starting or ending combination. None of this hunting around for letters that might go together – simply put S and H at the start, follow with a vowel, then fill the last two – or vice versa.
It’s slightly easier to come up with them at the start, so I did that then added the common-everywhere O, R and E to make SHORE. This was not particularly lucky according to WordleBot – luck score 31 – but it still left only three words.
These were SHILL, SHUCK and SHUSH, and it was obvious that I needed to go for one of the latter two. That’s because playing SHILL could have left me a 50/50, whereas either of the others would guarantee a four at worst.
I decided that SHUSH was the likeliest to actually be an answer, so went with that and scored a fourth 3/6 in a row. I’m sure my luck will end soon, but for now I’m enjoying it.
How did you do today? Send me an email or let me know in the comments.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1415)
In a different time zone where it’s still Sunday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1415, 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 T.
T is one of the most common starting letters in the game, beginning 149 of Wordle’s 2,309 answers. That gives it a ranking of fourth in the alphabet, behind only S, C and B.
- 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 T.
T is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – in fact only E and Y are more likely in that position.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1415.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a fish.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1415)
- NYT average score: 3.6
- My score: 3
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- My skill score: 99
- My luck score: 71
- My start word performance: VISIT (114 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (66)
- Tomorrow’s start word: HASTY
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1415) was… TROUT.
Let’s talk about fish! TROUT is the fifth to appear so far in Wordle, I think. We’ve had PERCH (game #157), GUPPY (#684), SKATE (#1163) and ROACH (#1342), although three of those also have other meanings. TROUT doesn’t, though; it’s just a fish. And it’s a fish that starts and ends with the same letter.
This subset of Wordles is not as rare as you might think – TROUT is the 55th of them. The previous one also started and ended with a T: TOAST, which was the solution to game #1322 at the end of January.
I tend to think that repeated letters are easier to find at either end of an answer, mainly because those are usually the easiest parts of a word to identify. Well, in my experience at least, but that might just be the way my brain works.
TROUT is a relatively easy Wordle overall, with a current average score of 3.6; that’s below the 3.7 for yesterday’s PATSY, and a long way off the likes of IDLER (4.2) and DUMMY (4.4).
I began with yet another average starting word, with VISIT giving me a green T at the end and leaving just over 100 options. I then had a massive stroke of luck, when I played CRANE.
This was not exactly an inspired move, given that it’s supposedly the best start word in the game, so obviously it would be a good word to play at almost any time.
But obvious choice though it may have been, it was very fortunate today: it gave me a green R and somehow cut my shortlist to only two words.
These were TROUT and GROUT, and I spent a few minutes agonizing over which to go for. TROUT is probably a more common word… but there’s not much in it. Eventually, I went with the fishy option and scored my 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 #1415, Sunday 4 May: TROUT
- Wordle #1414, Saturday 3 May: PATSY
- Wordle #1413, Friday 2 May: WHOSE
- Wordle #1412, Thursday 1 May: ADEPT
- Wordle #1411, Wednesday 30 April: IDLER
- Wordle #1410, Tuesday 29 April: BLISS
- Wordle #1409, Monday 28 April: DUMMY
- Wordle #1408, Sunday 27 April: WEEDY
- Wordle #1407, Saturday 26 April: CLASH
- Wordle #1406, Friday 25 April: KNOWN
- Wordle #1405, Thursday 24 April: GENIE
- Wordle #1404, Wednesday 23 April: OZONE
- Wordle #1403, Tuesday 22 April: ARTSY
- Wordle #1402, Monday 21 April: SPATE
- Wordle #1401, Sunday 20 April: PATCH
- Wordle #1400, Saturday 19 April: INBOX
- Wordle #1399, Friday 18 April: DIRGE
- Wordle #1398, Thursday 17 April: STOOD
- Wordle #1397, Wednesday 16 April: MORAL
- Wordle #1396, Tuesday 15 April: ASHEN
- Wordle #1395, Monday 14 April: CREST
- Wordle #1394, Sunday 13 April: LAUGH
- Wordle #1393, Saturday 12 April: NURSE
- Wordle #1392, Friday 11 April: ARROW
- Wordle #1391, Thursday 10 April: TURBO
- Wordle #1390, Wednesday 9 April: WHEAT
- Wordle #1389, Tuesday 8 April: SPARE
- Wordle #1388, Monday 7 April: HAZEL
- Wordle #1387, Sunday 6 April: VILLA
- Wordle #1386, Saturday 5 April: FOAMY
- Wordle #1385, Friday 4 April: KRILL
- Wordle #1384, Thursday 3 April: SHEAR
- Wordle #1383, Wednesday 2 April: CURSE
- Wordle #1382, Tuesday 1 April: JEWEL
- Wordle #1381, Monday 31 March: BOOTY
- Wordle #1380, Sunday 30 March: QUOTA
- Wordle #1379, Saturday 29 March: SORRY
- Wordle #1378, Friday 28 March: VERSE
- Wordle #1377, Thursday 27 March: SHEET
- Wordle #1376, Wednesday 26 March: ELBOW
- 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
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 2025.
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’ Games 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.
12. The NYT has added in some of its own words, that weren’t in that list of 2,309 solutions. More will undoubtedly come over the next few years.
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