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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 #1509) – 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 #1509) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is G.
G is the eighth most common starting letter, featuring in 115 Wordle answers. It’s often paired with an R to make GR— or an L to make GL—, but I’m not revealing whether that’s the case today.
Wordle hints (game #1509) – 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 #1509) – 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 #1509) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1509.
- Today’s Wordle answer is an audible sign of pain or annoyance.
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 #1509)
- NYT average score: 3.4
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- My skill score: 98
- My luck score: 46
- My start word performance: FILMY (1050 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: SLATE (201)
- Tomorrow’s start word: MANGY
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1509) is… GROAN.
I was beginning to forget what it was like to play an easy Wordle, but here’s GROAN to make us forget the fact that July was the toughest month in Wordle history.
At the time of writing it has an average score of 3.4, making it the easiest since PLAIN in late June and one of the 20th simplest games of 2025 so far.
What are the factors that make it so solvable? Well, a lot will have depended on your start word; there’s no such thing as an easy Wordle for everyone. But this one will have been a cinch for anyone who began with CRANE, at least, because that left only five possible solutions.
For everyone else, it’s simply the fact that it contains four very common letters, plus one, G, that’s very common at the start.
In fact, GR as an opening combination begins 38 of Wordle’s 2,309 original solutions, making it the sixth most likely pairing at the start after ST, SH, CR, SP and CH.
I had to settle for a four, annoyingly, but that was almost entirely due to my randomly chosen opener FILMY being entirely useless. I say it was useless; in reality, it still cut down the options to just over 1,000 – so I guess it had some value. But not a lot.
I went with SANER next, because that’s now my go-to second guess if I haven’t yet played E or R and don’t have any letters to work with. That gave me three yellows and cut the shortlist to 18.
I didn’t know that at the time, of course – but I did find 10 myself: GRAND, BRAND, DRANK, CRANK, GROAN, ROUND, PRANG, GRANT, BRAWN and PRAWN. The ones I missed ranged from obvious (DRAWN, PRANK) to a lot less so (ACORN, URBAN). On reflection, I should really have found at least 14 of them though.
Still, it didn’t harm my game too much. I worked out that GRAND would be my ideal third guess, because it would place all three of my yellows in their most common positions for -RAN-. That was the format for six of my 10 possible answers (and a few more of WordleBot’s extended list) and it was indeed the exact same word the ‘Bot would have chosen.
GRANT turned the first two letters green but left the A and N yellow, and ruled out the D. That in turn meant that GROAN was the only possible solution, meaning I scored a satisfactory four given that first guess.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1508)
In a different time zone where it’s still Tuesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1508, 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 K.
K is much more common at the end of a Wordle answer than at the start, and in fact ranks ninth overall in this regard.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1508.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a bird.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1508)
- NYT average score: 4.0
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 5
- My skill score: 94
- My luck score: 56
- My start word performance: CATTY (262 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: SLATE (43)
- Tomorrow’s start word: FILMY
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1508) was… STORK.
These kind of games really are so frustrating. You know the ones – you almost get it right on the second attempt, with an inspired guess that cuts it down from hundreds to just two. Then you get the 50/50 wrong and ultimately have to settle for a four. Yes, those kind.
That was exactly my experience with STORK, a moderately difficult Wordle with an average score of 4.0, but one that I so nearly solved in two.
It probably qualifies as a letter-trap answer, with STORE, STORY, STORK and STORM all being options with a different last letter, plus STARK and STOCK if you changed the third or fourth.
I didn’t have the slightest clue this would be the format to worry about after my first guess, CATTY, which gave me just a yellow T. But a yellow T that isn’t in the second position always suggests that an ST pair at the start might be a possibility, so I added three more common letters to make STORE and expected at best to uncover one or two more letters.
Instead, the first turned green, then the second, then the third and then the fourth, before my hopes were dashed when the E went gray.
No, matter, I thought – I’ll get a three anyway. But then I realized it could be either STORM or STORK, so had no option but to play the 50/50 and got it wrong. Amazingly, WordleBot had it even worse, managing to turn a first guess that left 43 into a rare five. And no, I don’t have an ounce of sympathy for it…
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 #1508, Tuesday 5 August: STORK
- Wordle #1507, Monday 4 August: RIGID
- Wordle #1506, Sunday 3 August: LUMPY
- Wordle #1505, Saturday 2 August: DAUNT
- Wordle #1504, Friday 1 August: BANJO
- Wordle #1503, Thursday 31 July: FRILL
- Wordle #1502, Wednesday 30 July: ASSAY
- Wordle #1501, Tuesday 29 July: OMEGA
- 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
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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