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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 #1479) – 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 #1479) – 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 #1479) – 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 #1479) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is T.
T is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – in fact only E and Y are more likely in that position.
Wordle hints (game #1479) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1479.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a pole that elevates.
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 #1479)
- NYT average score: 4.0
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- My skill score: 80
- My luck score: 56
- My start word performance: NOSEY (175 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (356)
- Tomorrow’s start word: CACTI
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1479) is… STILT.
Whether by accident or design, the NYT is throwing plenty of tricky words at us right now. Yesterday’s ATRIA followed Saturday’s BALER, and though Friday’s CURVE was not so bad, Thursday’s POPPY was a nightmare.
STILT is another potentially tricky one, though it will depend on what your start word was. If you began with STARE, you’ll have been happy enough; although not quite as successful as it was for ATRIA (where it left only a single answer), it reduced the pool to 22. But the real winner among the oft-played words today was SLATE, which left only five.
The repeated Ts are the major complicating factor here. As my analysis of every Wordle answer shows, getting more than one T in a solution is not uncommon compared to most letters – it occurs 61 times overall, meaning that only E, O, L and A are more likely to appear more than once. However, put that in the context of 2,309 answers and there’s a less than 3% chance of this format turning up.
Still, all five (or four) letters are common, and the ST at the start is by far the most common opening combination, with 65 appearances. Wordle giveth and it taketh away, then – which adds up to an average score of 4.0, so it’s not too difficult.
I hit that average with my own game, as did WordleBot, but I didn’t play it particularly well. NOSEY was an unhelpful starter, but SAINT got things back on track, giving me three greens in the format S-I-T.
I now had six words available, but only found four: SHIFT, STILT, SKIRT and SWIFT. Somehow, I missed SHIRT – which was ridiculous, given that I got SKIRT – plus SPILT, which was maybe easier to overlook given that I would write ‘spilled’ instead.
Anyway, that impacted my third choice, because I thought WHELK would guarantee me the answer – whereas in reality it might have left me either of two 50/50s.
And indeed, it did leave one – between STILT and SPLIT. But I still hadn’t thought of the latter, so played the former and got away with it. Phew!
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1478)
In a different time zone where it’s still Sunday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1478, too.
- Wordle yesterday had vowels in three 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 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 A.
A is a relatively common ending letter. It ranks 10th in this regard and today’s game is one of 63 in which you’ll find an A there.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1478.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is the upper chambers of the heart or open rooms.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1478)
- NYT average score: 3.9
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- My skill score: 63
- My luck score: 74
- My start word performance: OUTGO (357 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (80)
- Tomorrow’s start word: NOSEY
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1478) was… ATRIA.
Hello, and welcome to the latest instalment of ‘The NYT has added a word and it’s needlessly obscure.’
ATRIA is not a word I’d heard of, let alone used, before. Atrium, sure – I know what that means. And I guess I’m aware of ‘atrial’, as in ‘atrial fibrillation’. But not ATRIA itself.
It is also, of course, a plural – which Wordle doesn’t generally feature. But to be clear here, it only doesn’t feature plurals made by adding an S (or ES) on the end; other types of plural are seemingly fine, and as proof of that, FUNGI was the answer to puzzle #439.
You still wouldn’t necessarily expect one though, even if you were aware that ATRIA was a word.
I was not, and duly scored a four that could otherwise have been a three. That’s frustrating, because the average is 3.9, and it would have been nice to have dipped below it; I’ve had far too many poor games lately.
I’m surprised ATRIA doesn’t have a higher average, but it will have been heavily skewed by the fact that STARE left only one possible answer and therefore a guaranteed two – well, if people thought of it, and of that there is no guarantee.
I played STARE second, after my initial OUTGO left 357 options, and guessed brilliantly (or luckily), because it immediately cut that list to a single option.
The only problem was, I didn’t think of it at all, and so instead scrabbled around for 15 minutes trying combinations of letters in order to work out what the solution could be.
Eventually, baffled, I gave up and played ACRID. I knew this couldn’t be right, but I figured that a vowel would have to go before my green T, and so I’d rule in/out A from that position, and play the I too.
ACRID gave me a green A at the start, green R in the middle, and a green I too – meaning now the answer had to be ATRI- – at which point, you might think I’d have twigged. But no, it took me another few minutes of trying letters before I decided that ATRIA sounded more likely than ATRIP or ATRIM or ATRIK or anything else that would technically have fit, and so solved it in four. What a strange game.
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 #1478, Sunday 6 July: ATRIA
- Wordle #1477, Saturday 5 July: BALER
- Wordle #1476, Friday 4 July: CURVE
- Wordle #1475, Thursday 3 July: POPPY
- Wordle #1474, Wednesday 2 July: INCUR
- Wordle #1473, Tuesday 1 July: MOLDY
- Wordle #1472, Monday 30 June: BLINK
- Wordle #1471, Sunday 29 June: WITTY
- Wordle #1470, Saturday 28 June: STUMP
- Wordle #1469, Friday 27 June: PLAIN
- Wordle #1468, Thursday 26 June: OFFER
- Wordle #1467, Wednesday 25 June: COMFY
- Wordle #1466, Tuesday 24 June: ELITE
- Wordle #1465, Monday 23 June: ODDLY
- Wordle #1464, Sunday 22 June: THRUM
- Wordle #1463, Saturday 21 June: GLADE
- Wordle #1462, Friday 20 June: TAUPE
- Wordle #1461, Thursday 19 June: CURIO
- Wordle #1460, Wednesday 18 June: MUNCH
- Wordle #1459, Tuesday 17 June: PRANK
- Wordle #1458, Monday 16 June: PETTY
- Wordle #1457, Sunday 15 June: QUAIL
- Wordle #1456, Saturday 14 June: GHOST
- Wordle #1455, Friday 13 June: BILGE
- Wordle #1454, Thursday 12 June: VIXEN
- Wordle #1453, Wednesday 11 June: PLAID
- Wordle #1452, Tuesday 10 June: TAFFY
- Wordle #1451, Monday 9 June: BOARD
- Wordle #1450, Sunday 8 June: LEASE
- Wordle #1449, Saturday 7 June: REUSE
- Wordle #1448, Friday 6 June: EDIFY
- Wordle #1447, Thursday 5 June: DATUM
- Wordle #1446, Wednesday 4 June: CEASE
- Wordle #1445, Tuesday 3 June: ADMIN
- Wordle #1444, Monday 2 June: PREEN
- 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
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 in 2022 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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