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 #937) – 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 #937) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is R.
R is a surprisingly uncommon starting letter. Despite ranking third overall in Wordle, it’s merely the 11th most likely to begin an answer.
Wordle hints (game #937) – 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 #937) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is E.
E is the most common letter to end a Wordle answer by far. That’s one of the reasons why many of the best start words, including SLATE, CRANE, CRATE and STARE, all end with one.
Wordle hints (game #937) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #937.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a path towards something.
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 #937)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #937) is… ROUTE.
A dozen days into the new year we have our first really easy one. ROUTE has an average score of 3.3, according to WordleBot, which makes it the first in 2024 to dip below 3.5.
Many of the best Wordle starting words cut down the options considerably, particularly those that begin with an R. This is to be expected, because R is actually not that common as a starting letter – it ranks only 11th in this regard, despite being the fourth most common overall. So if you already had a green R after your first guess, you’ll have had a reduced pool of words to pick from. For instance, those of you who started with REACT will have had only one possible solution, while ROAST (2) and RAISE (7) were also very successful.
However, it goes further than just the R-starting words. TRACE, newly WordleBot’s favorite opener, was another that left seven, while CRATE, ORATE and IRATE (all 3), CARTE (5) and TRICE (6) were all similarly helpful.
That’s not the only reason why ROUTE should be a simple solve for most players. After all, my start word was not one of the best today – it was the “decent” and “distinctive” DOUGH, and it still left me with 20 answers to whittle down. No, the other aspect is simply that every single letter is really common. Four of them are in the top five overall, while the other, U, is a vowel and therefore not hard to find. And as a word it is of course a common one; it’s not like people might not have thought of it as with MURAL or LINER or SALTY, let alone something like PIQUE or AZURE or BORAX.
With green O and U already in place, I didn’t need to worry about locating any existing letters, so left them both out of my second guess. That would guarantee I wouldn’t solve this Wordle in 2/6, but I’d already identified enough answers that I knew that was unlikely. And it did give me more chances to find the missing three letters.
On my list were 12 words, including several that ended in T (COUNT, MOUNT, FOUNT, JOUST), a few that included an S (MOUSE/MOUSY, LOUSE/LOUSY) and several that featured an R: ROUST, ROUTE, MOURN and COURT. So with all of that in mind I played CREST – and it worked very well.
CREST gave me all three remaining letters, and though all were yellow there was now only one way in which they could be arranged. That was ROUTE, and I played it next for my 3/6.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #936)
In a different time zone where it’s still Thursday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #936, 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 B.
B is a very, very common starting letter in Wordle. In fact, it’s the third most common overall, behind only S and 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 F.
F is not a particularly common ending letter in Wordle. It only ranks 17th in this regard, and a mere 26 of the 2,000-plus original Wordle answers end in this letter.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #936.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is short-lived.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #936)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #936) was… BRIEF.
What a difference a day makes, eh?
Yesterday (and on Tuesday to an extent) I played really poorly and had to settle for 5/6s on what should have been straightforward games. Today, I got incredibly lucky and didn’t need any skill whatsoever in order to score a 2/6 against an average of 4.2.
BRIEF is actually the hardest Wordle we’ve had since AGING (4.3) more than a week ago. Its difficulty lies partly in the fact that it has an uncommon F at the end; this is the 17th most common ending letter, which doesn’t sound too bad, but then again it only finishes 26 answers in total, out of the original 2,309. You’d therefore only expect one every 88 games or so. As it happens, we’ve not had one since GRIEF in game #699, which is 237 days ago – so it was well overdue. (And note the fact that the previous one was GRIEF, because that’s relevant today.)
Another factor, potentially, is that it has several other words that are similarly spelled (or that use similar letters). According to WordleBot, lots of people guessed GRIEF (obviously), FRIED, CRIED, BRIDE, FRIER and BRIER on guesses two and three.
And finally, not that many of the best Wordle starting words helped much here – and those that did generally didn’t reduce the options to single figures. WordleBot actually has a new favorite start word as of today, TRACE, and that left 25 possible solutions, as did CRATE. TRICE was better still, at seven, but that was the only one of the top 20 picks to dip below 10. And elsewhere it was slim pickings, with SLATE leaving 328, STARE leaving 185 and so on.
None of that affected me, however. For the third day in the past six my random start word contained an F, and as with AFOUL on Monday this led directly to me being able to score a 2/6.
My opener was FLIER – a word that I might genuinely consider as a good permanent start word if I was to return to having one. WordleBot said it was a “strong opening guess” and awarded me 88 for skill, although there was literally zero skill involved given that it was a random choice. Anyway, FLIER gave me yellow F, yellow R, green I and green E – and one of the best openings ever for me, in that I now had only two words to pick from.
Those words were GRIEF and BRIEF, and I had a vague sense that the former was a past Wordle answer. And yes, it was – in May last last year (game #699 as mentioned above). I was far from certain about it, but decided to go with BRIEF on that hunch and got lucky. And that gave me a scarcely deserved, WordleBot-beating 2/6.
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 #936, Thursday 11 January: BRIEF
- Wordle #935, Wednesday 10 January: THREW
- Wordle #934, Tuesday 9 January: LINER
- Wordle #933, Monday 8 January: FINAL
- 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
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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