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? My Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that game, which remains the best of all the main Wordle alternatives.
SPOILER WARNING: Today’s Wordle answer and hints are below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to see them.
Marc is TechRadar’s UK Editor in Chief and has been playing Wordle for more than a year. He’s authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar and its sister site Tom’s Guide, including a detailed analysis of the most common letters in every position. His Wordle streak just reached the 500 mark and he’ll be inconsolable if he loses it. Yes, he takes it all too seriously.
Wordle hints (game #928) – 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 #928) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is 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.
Wordle hints (game #928) – 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 #928) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is L.
L is a really common letter to find at the end of a Wordle. There are 155 games that finish with an L, and it ranks as the fifth most likely letter there.
Wordle hints (game #928) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #928.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a spin.
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 #928)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #928) is… TWIRL.
Wordle #928 is something of a relief after the trials and tribulations of yesterday’s puzzle (see below). WordleBot, the game’s all-knowing AI helper tool, says people are solving it in an average of 3.6 guesses, which is considerably below the 4.3 score for AGING.
It does have one complication that yesterday’s game didn’t, though: a genuinely uncommon letter. OK, so W is nowhere near as rare as Z, X, Q or J, but as the sixth least common letter in the game, it’s still not one you would necessarily play early on.
That W is about the only difficult aspect to TWIRL, though. The other four letters are very common, and several of the best Wordle starting words cut the options down considerably. SLATE, for instance, left only 16, while TRACE was even better, at 11. STARE, my start word until very recently, reduced the pool of possible answers to just nine, but best of all was TRICE, which left players with a mere two solutions to pick from.
I’m not starting with STARE any more, of course, having decided instead to use a different word each day. Today’s, chosen at random, was UNITY – a “decent” opening word, according to WordleBot, and also “a distinctive one” that was played by less than 0.1% of players.
UNITY was quite lucky, giving me a green I and a yellow T. However, once you stop using the absolute best start words you realize that the number of options open to you are likely to be a lot higher unless you are incredibly fortunate. Case in point: I still had 44 words left despite a decent start.
My strategy now was twofold: work out where the T went and hopefully add another letter or two. I spent a few minutes coming up with options and found 16 of those 44. Lots featured the T at the start, paired with an H or R (THICK, THIEF, THIRD, TRICK, TRIPE). Lots also had an S before the T as in STICK, STILT, STIFF and STILL). And then there were those that had it at the end, again with an S (WRIST, WAIST, EXIST) or an L (STILT, SPLIT).
With those patterns in mind, I played SLEPT – it couldn’t be the answer, but I thought there might be a second vowel included, so the E made sense. And beyond that, it included the S and L that featured in lots of my words.
SLEPT was a good guess, giving me a yellow L and reducing the answer pool to four. I should really have scored a 4/6 from this point, but got lucky with my third guess. The only words I could find were TRILL and TWIRL; somehow I missed TRIAL (and also TWILL, but that’s a bit more obscure).
Playing TWIRL seemed the obvious move compared to going with TRILL, but if I had known about TRIAL I would almost certainly have played that instead. As it was, I played TWIRL in blissful ignorance and scored a welcome 3/6.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #927)
In a different time zone where it’s still Tuesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #927, 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 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 G.
G is not a common letter to end a Wordle answer – in fact only 41 of Wordle’s 2,309 games finish with one.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #927.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is growing older.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #927)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #927) was… AGING.
Have we finally turned a corner and headed down a path marked ‘Difficult Wordles this way’? It’s too early to draw any real conclusions, but for the second day in a row we have a puzzle with an average score of above 4.0 – in this case 4.3. That’s the first time we’ve had two slightly tricky ones since the 8th and 9th of November!
As with many of the more difficult Wordles, AGING contains a repeated letter. In this case that’s a G – which is not one of the more likely letters to appear twice in the game. In fact, of the 2,309 original Wordle solutions, a mere 11 contain more than one G. AGING is the sixth of them to appear, with the previous one being FOGGY way back in October 2022 (game #493). It’s really not a common occurrence.
Another aspect that might complicated your game today is that the answer is not necessarily spelled correctly, depending on where in the world you are. AGING is the correct form in the US and Canada, but AGEING is the preferred spelling in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and other English-speaking nations. That may well have meant that players outside of North America may not even have thought to play it until late on in the game – which is indeed what happened to me (I’m in the UK).
Your task will have been made easier, wherever you are, if you played certain options among the best Wordle starting words. Specifically, SAINT cut the remaining answers down to five, while LEANT (15), SLANT (18) and CRANE (22) were also pretty decent.
My starter word today, selected at random by my computer, was BORNE. For the second day in a row, it picked a good one for me; WordleBot said it was a “strong opening guess” and awarded me 93 for skill. However, it wasn’t all that lucky, leaving me with a mighty 85 possible answers.
I had very little to go on – a green N was my only clue – so I didn’t try to solve it on the second guess. However, I did draw up a very short shortlist of five words: GLAND, SLINK, PLINK, CLING and FLING. Based on those, I decided to play SLICK next; obviously five words weren’t enough for me to draw firm conclusions, but S, L, I and C are all common letters anyway, and K is a common one to follow an N at the end of a word.
WordleBot said it was a wonderful choice but again unlucky – and indeed it was, giving me only a green I and leaving me with 10 answers. But things were about to get worse. Looking at my options, I had –IN-. T was a likely letter to follow the N, with an A before it to make FAINT or PAINT or TAINT. If I’d looked for longer I might also have spotted the likes of DYING, VYING, TYING, THING, APING and indeed AGING, and played a G in my next guess. But I didn’t, so I went with PAINT.
That was wrong, but it did narrow down my options considerably – WordleBot now said I had only one answer. The good news was that I’d come to the same conclusion. The bad news was that my word was AXING, not AGING…
I don’t know why WordleBot didn’t include AXING, because it’s a perfectly valid word and every bit as likely as AGING. But ultimately that’s irrelevant – I played AXING next, was shocked to see that it wasn’t the answer, but realized that AGING had to be the solution on the next go and eventually scraped home with a 5/6.
Would I have fared better if I was in the US not the UK? Possibly. Is that fair? Not really. But that’s the game, and I’ll hardly be the only one affected by it today. Oh well.
Wordle answers: The past 50
I’ve been playing Wordle every day for more than a year 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 #927, Tuesday 2 January: AGING
- Wordle #926, Monday 1 January: MURAL
- Wordle #925, Sunday 31 December: SALTY
- Wordle #924, Saturday 30 December: THREE
- Wordle #923, Friday 29 December: CHILD
- Wordle #922, Thursday 28 December: LEARN
- Wordle #921, Wednesday 27 December: DAISY
- Wordle #920, Tuesday 26 December: PHONE
- Wordle #919, Monday 25 December: EVOKE
- Wordle #918, Sunday 24 December: GRACE
- Wordle #917, Saturday 23 December: SLOPE
- Wordle #916, Friday 22 December: TOUCH
- Wordle #915, Thursday 21 December: BUILT
- Wordle #914, Wednesday 20 December: SMALL
- Wordle #913, Tuesday 19 December: TABLE
- Wordle #912, Monday 18 December: FUNNY
- Wordle #911, Sunday 17 December: BACON
- Wordle #910, Saturday 16 December: GLOBE
- Wordle #909, Friday 15 December: TOPIC
- Wordle #908, Thursday 14 December: WOULD
- Wordle #907, Wednesday 13 December: SPENT
- Wordle #906, Tuesday 12 December: THESE
- Wordle #905, Monday 11 December: HOUSE
- Wordle #904, Sunday 10 December: CHAIN
- Wordle #903, Saturday 9 December: SHIFT
- Wordle #902, Friday 8 December: SHARP
- Wordle #901, Thursday 7 December: SLEEP
- Wordle #900, Wednesday 6 December: WOMAN
- Wordle #899, Tuesday 5 December: YOUNG
- Wordle #898, Monday 4 December: WORST
- Wordle #897, Sunday 3 December: ADAPT
- Wordle #896, Saturday 2 December: GENRE
- Wordle #895, Friday 1 December: TAKEN
- Wordle #894, Thursday 30 November: RESIN
- Wordle #893, Wednesday 29 November: SUSHI
- Wordle #892, Tuesday 28 November: SCOPE
- Wordle #891, Monday 27 November: TAWNY
- Wordle #890, Sunday 26 November: SOLID
- Wordle #889, Saturday 25 November: GUIDE
- Wordle #888, Friday 24 November: THROW
- Wordle #887, Thursday 23 November: QUEEN
- Wordle #886, Wednesday 22 November: PIXEL
- Wordle #885, Tuesday 21 November: PIANO
- Wordle #884, Monday 20 November: CANDY
- Wordle #883, Sunday 19 November: QUEUE
- Wordle #882, Saturday 18 November: THINK
- Wordle #881, Friday 17 November: TARDY
- Wordle #880, Thursday 16 November: TRUST
- Wordle #879, Wednesday 15 November: SIGHT
- Wordle #878, Tuesday 14 November: SASSY
- Wordle #877, Monday 13 November: GREEN
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 2024.
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’ Crossword 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.
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