Today’s Wordle answers might get the old gray matter working harder than usual. Yes, this is a potentially difficult puzzle, and one for which even some of the best Wordle starting words won’t have been much help.
With that in mind, you might want some Wordle hints; after all, disaster is only ever six guesses away. I’m a Wordle addict who’s been playing since December 2021, so I can definitely help you solve Wordle today and improve your game for tomorrow.
Read on for my Wordle clues and the answers to game #635 and bookmark this page so you can easily return tomorrow. Oh, and if you also play Quordle then my Quordle today page contains clues and answers for that, too.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about today’s Wordle answers 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 streak recently reached the 400 mark and he’ll be inconsolable if he loses it. Yes, he takes it all too seriously.
Wordle clues (game #635) – hint #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has two vowels*.
* 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 clues (game #635) – hint #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is C.
C is a very common starting letter in Wordle – in fact, it’s the second most common of all, behind only S.
Wordle clues (game #635) – hint #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 clues (game #635) – hint #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is R.
R is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – it’s actually the 4th most common there, behind E, Y and T.
Wordle clues (game #635) – hint #5 – last chance
Still looking for Wordle clues today? Don’t worry, I’ll give you one more for game #635.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a drink.
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 #635)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #635) is… CIDER.
I’m such an idiot sometimes. Despite having played every day for more than a year, I’m still capable of screwing up as if this was my first game. Today was one of those days.
I escaped with a 5/6, but I had a big dose of luck along the way. So while today’s Wordle answer is a tricky one, I don’t feel I deserve much credit for finding it. But anyway, enough of my self-flagellation! What you want to know is why it’s difficult and how you could have approached it.
Well, WordleBot states that it has an average score of 4.3 – so slightly higher than yesterday’s similarly difficult puzzle (see below). However, that’s potentially misleading, because some people will have found it far easier than others.
It all depends on your choice of the best Wordle starting words, because some performed very well today, while others definitely did not. For instance, WordleBot says that playing CRANE left just 12 options, while TRACE (21), CARTE (15) and CRATE (11) were all in the same ballpark.
In contrast, WordleBot’s favorite, SLATE, left 329, while my STARE was at 181. And if you started with SLANT then oh dear – you had 530 possible answers remaining! So what we have here is a two-tier game, in which lots of people probably scored a 3/6 (with a few 2/6s maybe) and lots scored a 5/6 or worse.
It is, of course, an ‘ER’ game, which are generally pretty horrible and which I always struggle with. In some ways it should be among the easier ER games, because there’s no repeated letter as in RIPER (game #613) or PARER (#454). But on the flip side, CIDER isn’t the most obvious word that’s ever been an answer.
I could see it was probably going to be an ER word when the R and E stayed yellow on that first guess, so I followed up with a word that’s worked in these circumstances before: LINED.
So far, so good: this gave me a green I, green E and yellow D, and reduced my options to just seven. This game was going to be E-A-S-Y. Only it wasn’t.
At this point, I wrote down my options: WIDER, CIDER, RIDER, EIDER (like the duck) and DIVER. I also jotted down DICER, but I didn’t really think that would be the answer. The other possibility, according to WordleBot, was HIDER – but really? Hider? Come on, WordleBot, that is not a proper answer. It’s barely a proper word.
The sensible option at this stage was to play another word that further narrowed it down – WordleBot suggested CEDED. If I’d done that, I’d probably have scored a 4/6. Instead, I started guessing.
First, I played WIDER. That wasn’t too bad: the D turned green and left just three words: CIDER, RIDER and EIDER.
Next, I made an even bigger mistake and played EIDER. I don’t know why I did this, because this was far less likely to be a Wordle answer than RIDER or CIDER. I was just blindly guessing at this point, which is exactly the opposite of the way I like to play Wordle.
Finally, when I should probably have played RIDER, I went with CIDER and got lucky. So while I did find today’s answer on the fifth guess, I take no pleasure in it. I could easily have scored a 6/6 (or even failed, if HIDER was a genuine answer), whereas with a bit more thought it could have been a 4/6. What a fool.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #634)
In a different time zone where it’s still Wednesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #634, too.
- Wordle yesterday had one vowel, repeated.
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was S.
- There was one repeated letter in yesterday’s Wordle.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was P.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a cleaning movement.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #634)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #634) was… SWEEP.
I initially thought that this was a pretty easy Wordle, given that I solved it in 3/6 and didn’t need to think too hard about it. But when I checked WordleBot afterwards, I realized that I’d been very lucky.
Most people will have had a much tougher time of it than me – and if you want proof of that, then consider that WordleBot says people are solving it in 4.2 guesses on average. That actually makes it the hardest Wordle since REVEL on Friday and the second hardest since MOOSE a full two weeks ago.
Once again, it has a repeated E in it, a scenario we also faced in REVEL and in WHERE the day before that. It’s not unusual to get two Es in a Wordle answer: there are 172 games in which it happens, making it the most likely letter to be repeated. It’s a lot less common for those two Es to be together, though, which potentially made the task of finding them both more difficult.
That aside, it’s also notable for containing a W and for ending in a P. Given that W is the sixth least common letter in the game and that there are only 56 games in which a P ends the game, you might not have expected those today.
Finally, it’s also worth noting that the old too-many-answers problem may have reared its ugly head again here. A look at WordleBot reveals that the most common second guesses included SPEND, STEEP and SPEED, while the most common third guess was SLEEP. All of those, plus the likes of SHEEP and SWEET, may have cost you a guess (or two) today.
I didn’t have to worry about much of that, because STARE, my choice of the best Wordle starting words, immediately cut my options down to 29. That was a much better result than the likes of SLATE (37), CRANE (275), SLANT (96) and TRACE (265).
I didn’t find all 29 of those options, not least because I didn’t know there were that many; WordleBot only tells you so afterwards. But I could see there were quite a few and came up with around a dozen. That was enough to guide me in the direction of my second word, which I knew would need to contain several of the letters that commonly follow an S: W, M, P, L and H.
I decided to go with WHELK, and got lucky again: the W turned yellow, the E turned green and somehow, that reduced my options from 29 to 1 instantly! I hunted around for a little, but SWEEP was the only word I could see that fit, so I played it next and scored another 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 #634, Wednesday 15 March: SWEEP
- Wordle #633, Tuesday 14 March: SURLY
- Wordle #632, Monday 13 March: BLAME
- Wordle #631, Sunday 12 March: BIRTH
- Wordle #630, Saturday 11 March: EMAIL
- Wordle #629, Friday 10 March: REVEL
- Wordle #628, Thursday 9 March: WHERE
- Wordle #627, Wednesday 8 March: REGAL
- Wordle #626, Tuesday 7 March: HORSE
- Wordle #625, Monday 6 March: PINKY
- Wordle #624, Sunday 5 March: TOXIC
- Wordle #623, Saturday 4 March: TREND
- Wordle #622, Friday 3 March: SQUAT
- Wordle #621, Thursday 2 March: ABOVE
- Wordle #620, Wednesday 1 March: MOOSE
- Wordle #619, Tuesday 28 February: POLKA
- Wordle #618, Monday 27 February: WORSE
- Wordle #617, Sunday 26 February: SYRUP
- Wordle #616, Saturday 25 February: FIFTY
- Wordle #615, Friday 24 February: ARBOR
- Wordle #614, Thursday 23 February: VAGUE
- Wordle #613, Wednesday 22 February: RIPER
- Wordle #612, Tuesday 21 February: RUDDY
- Wordle #611, Monday 20 February: SWEAT
- Wordle #610, Sunday 19 February: KIOSK
- Wordle #609, Saturday 18 February: AVAIL
- Wordle #608, Friday 17 February: CACHE
- Wordle #607, Thursday 16 February: MAGIC
- Wordle #606, Wednesday 15 February: SALSA
- Wordle #605, Tuesday 14 February: SOUND
- Wordle #604, Monday 13 February: USAGE
- Wordle #603, Sunday 12 February: GIANT
- Wordle #602, Saturday 11 February: DEBUG
- Wordle #601, Friday 10 February: HEADY
- Wordle #600, Thursday 9 February: STAGE
- Wordle #599, Wednesday 8 February: FLAIL
- Wordle #598, Tuesday 7 February: APPLE
- Wordle #597, Monday 6 February: NINTH
- Wordle #596, Sunday 5 February: DANCE
- Wordle #595, Saturday 4 February: UNLIT
- Wordle #594, Friday 3 February: TASTY
- Wordle #593, Thursday 2 February: SHIRK
- Wordle #592, Wednesday 1 February: SCOLD
- Wordle #591, Tuesday 31 January: CROSS
- Wordle #590, Monday 30 January: CRAVE
- Wordle #589, Sunday 29 January: FISHY
- Wordle #588, Saturday 28 January: FLIRT
- Wordle #587, Friday 27 January: WORRY
- Wordle #586, Thursday 26 January: BEEFY
- Wordle #585, Wednesday 25 January: MAIZE
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 2023.
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 (opens in new tab) or the New York Times’ Crossword app (iOS (opens in new tab) / Android (opens in new tab)), 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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