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.
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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.
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 #933) – 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 #933) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is F.
F is a very common starting letter in Wordle. It ranks seventh behind only S, C, B, T, P and A and overall there are 135 solutions that begin with this letter.
Wordle hints (game #933) – 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 #933) – 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 #933) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #933.
- Today’s Wordle answer is that which is last.
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 #933)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #933) is… FINAL.
It always surprises me that F is the seventh most common start letter in Wordle, because it’s not all that common in the game overall (19th). But seventh it is: only S, C, B, P, T and A are more likely to appear at the start.
In fact, 135 of Wordle’s original 2,309 answers begin with an F, meaning you’d expect one every 17 games. We were a tiny bit overdue, because the previous example was 22 Wordles ago in the form of FUNNY (game #912), but that’s still roughly in keeping with probabilities.
The F at the start is probably the most notable thing about this answer, which is otherwise fairly humdrum. It has very common letters in every place, plus that classic consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel-consonant format. WordleBot says people are solving it in 3.7 guesses on average, which backs up the feeling that it’s unremarkable as Wordle words go.
It certainly isn’t one of those solutions where the best Wordle starting words were very helpful; SLATE left 73 answers, CRANE left 63 and STARE left 185, for instance. But as a very common word using common letters, lots of people will have guessed it relatively early on anyway. In fact, WordleBot said the most common second guesses were FINAL itself, plus PLAIN, CHAIN and PAINT – all of which have that A, I and N sequence, while the first of those also has the L. If you played any of those on your second guess you’ll have had a fairly straightforward solve on the third.
My own game was more straightforward still – though that was almost entirely down to luck. My randomly chosen start word was AFOUL – a word that WordleBot again described as “distinctive”. It’s not one I would ever have chosen myself, but the three vowels and the L are all helpful in many games, so it’s by no means a bad choice.
Today, it was a lot better than that, giving me yellow A, yellow F and green L, and leaving me with only seven remaining answers. Better still, I only needed one of them. I did come up with a shortlist – FETAL, FATAL and FERAL were all on it – but as soon as I spotted FINAL I knew that I’d play it. My intention was solely to narrow it down further, by adding a couple more common letters (I and N) into the mix and seeking to confirm the F and A in position, but fortune smiled on me and I scored my first 2/6 since changing my start word from STARE. And as a bonus, WordleBot could only manage a 4/6.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #932)
In a different time zone where it’s still Sunday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #932, 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 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 #932.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is rocky.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #932)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #932) was… STONY.
This is theoretically another slightly harder Wordle, although it still dips below the 4.0 threshold. WordleBot says people are solving it in an average of 3.9 guesses, which means it’s exactly as tough as yesterday’s puzzle (which was 3.8 when I wrote my column but which has now been upgraded by 0.1).
As always, how difficult it was for you will have depended on several factors, including luck, skill and whether you began with one of the best Wordle starting words. Although on that last point, it may not have made as big a difference as it did with some games, because not that many words cut down the options by a huge amount. Several did reduce the pool of solutions to fewer than 10 – for instance SLANT (7) and SAINT (5) – but none of the really popular openers helped much.
This is the third Wordle in the past two weeks to end in a Y, and the third in one week to start with an S. Neither of those details should surprise you, given that S is the most common starting letter and Y the most common to end an answer.
The fact that STONY’s average score is not lower is probably due to the fact that there are so many words that begin STO, meaning that people might have struggled to narrow them down. Looking at WordleBot’s analysis, many people guessed STONE, STORY, STOCK, STOMP, STORM, STORE, STOOL, STOOP, STONK and various others.
I didn’t have that problem, with my first guess cutting down the options fairly well, my second doing a lot more hard work and my third giving me a nice dash of luck. I didn’t envisage that result when I saw the random start word dealt to me today, though! POPPY seemed like a disaster, given that it contained three of one letter, essentially meaning that I would only get info about three-fifths of the opener. Well, unless the answer had contained a repeated P, but it didn’t.
I fully expected a blank first guess, but POPPY actually performed quite well. WordleBot said it was “a bold choice” and also that it was “extraordinarily lucky” because it left only 21 answers.
I set about finding as many of those answers as I could (though at this stage I didn’t know that there were 21 of them). I realized early on that most moved the O to the middle of the word, as in CRONY, GLORY, EBONY, AGONY, STORY and SMOKY, all of which were on my list. A couple had the O at the start – OVARY and ODDLY – and a few more had the O before the Y (ENJOY, ALLOY, ANNOY). N, L and A were all regular visitors to those words, so I wanted to include those three. G was also in a couple, so CLANG seemed like a decent guess – although WordleBot only said it was “solid”.
Solid is probably fair enough, because it didn’t cut down those 21 options to a single solution – instead, I had three: IRONY, EBONY and STONY. I only had the latter two, though, having not found IRONY, so in my head I had a 50/50. STONY seemed the more likely answer, so I went with that and had a stroke of fortune: it was correct and I scored a fairly straightforward 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 #932, Sunday 7 January: STONY
- Wordle #931, Saturday 6 January: CABLE
- Wordle #930, Friday 5 January: LUNGE
- Wordle #929, Thursday 4 January: SCANT
- 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
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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