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 #929) – 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 #929) – 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 #929) – 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 #929) – 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 #929) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #929.
- Today’s Wordle answer is barely enough.
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 #929)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #929) is… SCANT.
The thing about picking Wordle start words at random is that they can really make the game tough. Today’s puzzle was a case in point: my computer told me I was starting with… wait for it… APNEA. Hmmm. So that’s a start word with two As in it, which is not great. And those As are at the start and end of the word, where they aren’t all that common. Thanks very much, Wordle gods.
On the plus side, APNEA does contain four common letters, so it wasn’t a total disaster. But if you’re looking at the image of my game above and wondering why it took me five guesses to solve a Wordle that has an average score of 3.5, well that’s why.
SCANT shouldn’t have caused most people too much trouble. All five letters are regular visitors to Wordle answers, S is the most common starting letter of all, T is the third most common ending letter.
Those of you who are playing one of the best Wordle starting words – i.e. not APNEA – might well have been very pleased with the results for your first guess. SLATE, WordleBot’s favorite, left only 15 possible answers, but there were even better returns for CRANE and SLANT, which left only one solution, CRATE (which left 2), CARET and CRONE (both 3), LEAST and STALE (4), TRACE, LEANT and STARE (all 5) and CARTE (7). In short, almost all of the top choices cut down the remaining options to single figures.
Meanwhile, I had 95 options open to me – and a traumatic experience ahead of me.
I didn’t have enough info to bother coming up with a shortlist – I could see the options would be measured in the dozens – so instead focused on finding some more letters, and hopefully turning my A and N green.
I succeeded on the former but not the latter, with NASTY giving me yellow S and T but leaving the N and A the same color.
WordleBot told me afterwards that I now had six words open to me, but I could only find five: STAND, STANK, SLANT, SCANT and STAIN. The one I’d missed was, apparently, TRANS.
What I probably should have done next was to play a throwaway word that would guarantee me scoring a 4/6 – maybe CLINK, which would have given me the C in SCANT, or the K in STANK, the L in SLANT, or the I in STAIN. However, I didn’t know that I hadn’t missed lots more words, so instead guessed STAND in order to see if I was on the right track.
WordleBot said this was an excellent choice, but unfortunately it still left two choices: SLANT and SCANT. This was exactly the scenario that I didn’t want, because I had a straight 50/50 and I just knew I’d guess incorrectly. That was exactly what happened, so I had to settle for a disappointing 5/6.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #928)
In a different time zone where it’s still Wednesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #928, 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 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.
- 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 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.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #928.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a spin.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #928)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #928) was… 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.
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 #928, Wednesday 3 January: TWIRL
- 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
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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