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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.
Want more word-based fun? TechRadar’s Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that game, and you can also take a look at our NYT Strands today and NYT Connections today pages for our verdict on two of the New York Times’ other brainteasers.
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 #1444) – 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 #1444) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is P.
P is a very common first letter among Wordle answers. It’s the fifth most common in the alphabet and begins 141 solutions in total.
Wordle hints (game #1444) – 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 #1444) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is N.
N is a pretty common ending letter in Wordle: it’s the seventh most likely in that position and features in 130 solutions.
Wordle hints (game #1444) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1444.
- Today’s Wordle answer is to primp.
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 #1444)
- NYT average score: 3.6
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- My skill score: 90
- My luck score: 50
- My start word performance: IMPLY (154 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (2)
- Tomorrow’s start word: REIGN
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1444) is… PREEN.
If you use a list of past Wordle answers or have a very good memory, you’ll know that GREEN has been a solution already – it was game #877 in November 2023.
By the looks of it, many people today did not know that – because 3% went with it on the second guess, 11% on the third and 8% on the fourth.
WordleBot was among them, which meant that it had to settle for a three despite an incredible start with CRANE, which left only two words to choose from. Those were GREEN and PREEN, obviously, and it picked the wrong one.
This was not a problem I faced, because my opening IMPLY gave me a yellow P, and by the time I’d narrowed down the field to a handful of words I knew that it went at the start.
My problem was instead that first guess, because it left 154 options, and though SPARE cut them down to 10 I was never realistically going to score a three here.
And if I had faced a choice between GREEN and PREEN? Well, then like the ‘Bot I would have guessed rather than checked. I have no problem at all with people who do look at a past solutions list, but although I have done it on occasion, I’ve always decided afterwards that it slightly cheapened my result.
That said, I fully reserve the right to change my mind in the future; after all, we have now had nearly 1,500 answers, and nobody could realistically recall them all.
How did you do today? Send me an email or let me know in the comments.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1443)
In a different time zone where it’s still Sunday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1443, 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 R.
R is a surprisingly uncommon starting letter. Despite ranking third overall in Wordle, it’s merely the 11th most likely to begin an answer.
- 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 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.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1443.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is coarse.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1443)
- NYT average score: 3.6
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- My skill score: 93
- My luck score: 48
- My start word performance: AWOKE (228 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (106)
- Tomorrow’s start word: IMPLY
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1443) was… ROUGH.
English must be an incredibly annoying language to learn. Consider the -OUGH pattern; in ROUGH it makes an ‘uff’ sound, but in COUGH it’s more of an ‘off’, in DOUGH it’s an ‘oh’ and in BOUGH it’s an ‘ow’. How are you supposed to know which way to pronounce it?!
Pronunciation apart, those similarly spelled alternatives probably represent the biggest challenge here, with TOUGH the other word that differs only by that first letter.
All of those were played in varying numbers by Wordlers, although more people were caught out by ROUND, presumably because they already had a green R at the start of the answer.
Still, that aside it’s a relatively easy one, with an average score of 3.6 at the time of writing. That average will probably have been skewed a little by the result for RAISE – which left only 13 options – but ultimately there wasn’t too much to fear here.
I began poorly, with AWOKE leaving more than 200 possibles, and though my second guess, POINT, was deemed to be a “terrific choice”, it was incredibly unlucky (11/99 for luck, according to WordleBot) and only cut the shortlist to 50.
Still, I knew it couldn’t be an OO word now, which is one thing I was worried about, and with E, N and T all ruled out I had a hunch that the last letter would be either an R, L or Y. Playing SURLY enabled me to try them all, as well as including the always-common S and the final vowel, U.
SURLY was much more successful, giving me yellow U and R and leaving only two answers.
I spent a little time trying to work out what these could be (though at the time I didn’t know there were two of them) and came up with ROUGH and GOURD. The former seemed more likely than the latter, so I played that and finished with a satisfactory four in the circumstances.
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 #1443, Sunday 1 June: ROUGH
- Wordle #1442, Saturday 31 May: HABIT
- Wordle #1441, Friday 30 May: IDIOM
- Wordle #1440, Thursday 29 May: QUASH
- Wordle #1439, Wednesday 28 May: POLAR
- Wordle #1438, Tuesday 27 May: SPORT
- Wordle #1437, Monday 26 May: DRONE
- Wordle #1436, Sunday 25 May: GRIFT
- Wordle #1435, Saturday 24 May: SUEDE
- Wordle #1434, Friday 23 May: SHUCK
- Wordle #1433, Thursday 22 May: FOLIO
- Wordle #1432, Wednesday 21 May: ALARM
- Wordle #1431, Tuesday 20 May: BORNE
- Wordle #1430, Monday 19 May: PITCH
- Wordle #1429, Sunday 18 May: LIVID
- Wordle #1428, Saturday 17 May: GROWN
- Wordle #1427, Friday 16 May: FIFTH
- Wordle #1426, Thursday 15 May: EAGER
- Wordle #1425, Wednesday 14 May: BONGO
- Wordle #1424, Tuesday 13 May: AWARE
- Wordle #1423, Monday 12 May: BICEP
- Wordle #1422, Sunday 11 May: DOWEL
- Wordle #1421, Saturday 10 May: YEAST
- Wordle #1420, Friday 9 May: TRIPE
- Wordle #1419, Thursday 8 May: BALMY
- Wordle #1418, Wednesday 7 May: MACHO
- Wordle #1417, Tuesday 6 May: SUITE
- Wordle #1416, Monday 5 May: SHUSH
- 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
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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