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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.

Your Wordle expert

Marc McLaren
Your Wordle expert

Marc McLaren

Wordle hints (game #1501) – clue #1 – Vowels

How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?

Wordle today has 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).

Wordle hints (game #1501) – clue #2 – first letter

What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?

The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is O.

Vowels are generally less common than you’d expect at the start of a word, and O is only the 17th most likely letter to begin a Wordle answer.

Wordle hints (game #1501) – 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 #1501) – clue #4 – ending letter

What letter does today’s Wordle end with?

The last letter in today’s Wordle is 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.

Wordle hints (game #1501) – clue #5 – last chance

Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1501.

  • Today’s Wordle answer is a Greek letter.

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 #1501)

NYT Wordle answer for game 1501 on a green background

(Image credit: New York Times)

  • NYT average score: 4.0
  • My score: 3
  • WordleBot’s score: 4
  • My skill score: 94
  • My luck score: 62
  • My start word performance: PRUDE (266 remaining answers)
  • WordleBot’s start word performance: SLATE (140)
  • Tomorrow’s start word: GRILL

Today’s Wordle answer (game #1501) is… OMEGA.

This is one of those Wordles that isn’t that difficult in terms of its letters, but which you might well not have thought of as a word.

OMEGA is of course a letter of the Greek alphabet – don’t ask me to name them all, but other potential Wordles include SIGMA, THETA and KAPPA, while we’ve already had ALPHA, GAMMA and DELTA.

It has an average of 4.0, so not too hard – and considerably easier than yesterday’s SAVVY, which remained at 4.8 throughout the day. But that said, 4.0 is still slightly above the global average for Wordle – which is at about 3.96 last time I checked – so it may well have caused problems for some.

Plus, that’s despite the fact that it contains three vowels, something that usually makes a Wordle word easier to uncover. Then again, the O, E and A are all in uncommon places here, which will have skewed the difficulty balance once again.

My game was smooth sailing, thanks to an incredibly lucky second guess following a fairly unhelpful first one.

My random word generator had today given me PRUDE, which on many occasions would be a great opener; I played it with a certain amount of confidence that I’d turn over a few letters. Unfortunately, this time it gave me only a yellow E at the end of the word, and left me 266 options.

My instinct with a yellow E is always to play it in one of the final two positions; if it isn’t at the end, it usually goes in slot #4 before an R, to form one of those nasty ER words. However, here the R was already ruled out – so instead, I decided to place the E in the middle and play CLEAN.

This was a “wonderful choice” according to the ‘Bot, but more importantly it was very lucky – 91 out of 99 lucky – and cut the options to only two.

But what were they? Well, surprisingly, they were both Greek letters: OMEGA and THETA. I had no reason to pick one over the other, but went with the former purely because the latter had a repeated letter, and got lucky once again.


Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1500)

In a different time zone where it’s still Monday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1500, 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 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 Y.

Y is the second most common ending letter in the game, behind only E. In total, 364 Wordle answers end with a Y.

Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1500.

  • Yesterday’s Wordle answer is shrewd and knowledgeable.

Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1500)

NYT Wordle answer for game 1500 on a green background

(Image credit: New York Times)

  • NYT average score: 4.8
  • My score: 4
  • WordleBot’s score: 3
  • My skill score: 95
  • My luck score: 39
  • My start word performance: EKING (639 remaining answers)
  • WordleBot’s start word performance: SLATE (22)
  • Tomorrow’s start word: PRUDE

Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1500) was… SAVVY.

Happy 1,500th birthday, Wordle! You don’t look a day over 1,000…

We’re well over halfway through the game’s run now, with somewhere between 800 and 900 words to go in all likelihood. Still, that gives us a minimum of 2.5 years at least, so there’s plenty more Wordle fun to come.

This game wasn’t much fun for most people; it has an average score right now of 4.8. However, it was a word that brought back some memories to me, because my first childhood cat was actually named SAVVY.

A mean old ginger thing, SAVVY used to terrify and terrorize me in equal measure. His favorite pastime appeared to be sleeping on my bed, while I was in it, and refusing to let me out from under the covers, swiping at me if I dared to move to the extent that I’d have to call my mum to rescue me. Happy days.

As a Wordle word, SAVVY is every bit as fearsome, with that 4.8 implying it’s yet another tough one for the month. I haven’t crunched the numbers yet, but I suspect July 2025 may be the game’s hardest ever.

The game’s high score is no major surprise to me, because a double-V is not exactly a likely occurrence. There are only four games among the 2,309 original solutions that contain a repeated V, and only one of them – SAVVY – has them next to each other. On the plus side, you won’t need to worry about it happening again, eh?

I escaped with a four, thanks to a steady game that started badly. EKING gave me zero letters and left 639 options, but ROAST was exactly what the ‘Bot would have played too, and reduced those to 17.

I moved my yellow S to its most likely position at the start, and decided that with E, N, R and T all ruled out, there was a good chance the word would end with Y, so put that at the end and played SPLAY.

This left only two words: SAUCY and SAVVY. And here I had a slice of luck; I didn’t think of the first of those, which was fortunate as I’m sure I would have played it next if I had. Instead, I went with SAVVY and beat the average.


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 #1500, Monday 28 July: SAVVY
  • Wordle #1499, Sunday 27 July: WHOLE
  • Wordle #1498, Saturday 26 July: HAUNT
  • Wordle #1497, Friday 25 July: GOFER
  • Wordle #1496, Thursday 24 July: QUAKE
  • Wordle #1495, Wednesday 23 July: WATER
  • Wordle #1494, Tuesday 22 July: BURNT
  • Wordle #1493, Monday 21 July: TIZZY
  • Wordle #1492, Sunday 20 July: BLANK
  • Wordle #1491, Saturday 19 July: SWORD
  • Wordle #1490, Friday 18 July: LORIS
  • Wordle #1489, Thursday 17 July: MODAL
  • Wordle #1488, Wednesday 16 July: NERVY
  • Wordle #1487, Tuesday 15 July: FOIST
  • Wordle #1486, Monday 14 July: UNDID
  • Wordle #1485, Sunday 13 July: GNOME
  • Wordle #1484, Saturday 12 July: EXILE
  • Wordle #1483, Friday 11 July: BRAND
  • Wordle #1482, Thursday 10 July: JUMPY
  • Wordle #1481, Wednesday 9 July: NOVEL
  • Wordle #1480, Tuesday 8 July: DREAD
  • Wordle #1479, Monday 7 July: STILT
  • 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

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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