The first Wordle answer of the weekend is a fairly standard one that most people should solve comfortably enough. WordleBot, the NYT’s AI helper tool, says people are completing it in an average of 3.9 guesses, which is a good deal harder than the previous couple, but nowhere near nightmare territory.
Of course no Wordle should ever be taken lightly, because in this game, failure is only ever six guesses away. So allow me to furnish you with some Wordle hints for game #665 – and you can even see the answer, too, if you don’t have time to play.
Want more word-based fun? My Quordle today page contains hints 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 460 mark and he’ll be inconsolable if he loses it. Yes, he takes it all too seriously.
Wordle hints (game #665) – clue #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 hints (game #665) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is 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.
Wordle hints (game #665) – 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 #665) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is Y.
Y is the second most common ending letter in the game, behind only E. In total, 364 Wordle answers end with a Y.
Wordle hints (game #665) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for Wordle hints today? Don’t worry, I’ll give you one more for game #665.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a measure of pain.
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 #665)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #665) is… AGONY.
This answer ticks all the boxes for Wordle; if you wanted to provide a definitive example, it would work very nicely.
There are two vowels and two consonants, plus a Y – which can act like either of them. Three of the five of the letters are very common, two of them less so. Some are particularly common in the positions they fill today; others aren’t. The word itself isn’t at all obscure, but there are quite a few other solutions that use most of the same letters, which could make it harder.
As I said, it’s a classic Wordle, and the sort of puzzle that got us all addicted in the first place.
I don’t see too many people failing today, but to get a good score you’ll either need to get lucky with your choice of the best Wordle starting words, or to think hard about your second guess. That’s because many popular starters didn’t help all that much today.
SLATE, for instance, left 199 possible solutions, and my favorite, STARE, was only marginally better at 188. TRACE (185), CARTE (151) and CRATE (185) were all in the same ballpark.
But there were some fortunate starters today too. ADIEU, which is almost always the most popular, left a more manageable 54 possible answers, while CRANE (23), SLANT (19) and LEANT (16) all fared pretty well.
With just a single yellow A to play with, my second guess had to do some very heavy lifting. I came up with a few dozen possible answers, many of which included the A in the second position: MADLY, BADLY, MANIA, MANIC, MAGIC, PANIC, CABIN, WAGON, BACON, HAPPY, BANAL, DAILY and a bunch more. Notice also the many Ns and Ls among them – and the Ys.
Including as many of those letters as I could was the aim. I certainly wanted the Y at the end, because with E, T and R all ruled out, that was three of the four most common ending letters already out of contention.
MADLY proved a great choice for me. Though it left the A yellow and only uncovered one more letter, it turned the Y green just as I’d hoped it would. And though at first glance it looked like I still had a lot of work to do, in reality I was almost home and dry now.
There were only two formats left for my answer: A—Y or —AY. The latter is not a common ending combination. There are apparently 13 such answers among Wordle’s original 2,309 solutions, but I couldn’t see any that fit today. So instead I concentrated on the A-starting words and came up with two: AGONY and ANNOY.
In my mind, then, I had a 50/50 – and though the probability of either being correct was the same, my instinct was immediately to go for the one than didn’t have a repeated letter in there. So I played AGONY and got lucky – it was right, and I scored a 3/6.
On checking WordleBot after the game, though, it told me that there were two AY words I could have played: BYWAY and COPAY. I have no idea what the latter means and it doesn’t sound like a Wordle answer, but the former definitely could have been – so the Wordle gods clearly smiled on me today.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #664)
In a different time zone where it’s still Friday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #664, too.
- Wordle yesterday had two vowels.
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was T.
- There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was F.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer has sticky fingers.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #664)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #664) was… THIEF.
I said up top that this is a simple one, and it really is. WordleBot says it’s being solved in an average of 3.6 guesses, which makes it the equal second easiest (behind RATIO) since early March.
Strangely, though, that has nothing to do with most of the best Wordle starting words. SLATE, WordleBot’s favorite, left 114 possible solutions, and the likes of CRANE (275), SLANT (180), CRATE (102) and my pick, STARE (90) were either worse still or only marginally better. TRACE was the only (minor) success today: that left 29 options.
However… ADIEU, which as always was the most popular start word of all, was very lucky today – it left just 11 possible solutions.
Right, so let’s talk about ADIEU for a bit. Apparently 8% of people started with it today, compared to 5% for the similar AUDIO. STARE, RAISE and SLATE – three genuinely great starting words – only had 4%, 3% and 3% respectively.
The thing is, ADIEU is not (usually) a good starting word. WordleBot rates it as 80/99 for skill, whereas STARE gets 97 and SLATE 99. Other studies say much the same. Yeah, it has four vowels in it, but vowels aren’t the key to solving Wordle quickly, consonants are.
Anyway, nobody will listen to me, and that’s fine – we’re all grown ups, you can make your own mistakes and I won’t judge you (much).
Of course everything I’ve just said is slightly negated by the fact that today at least, ADIEU was a great choice of starting word. Either way, ADIEU’s popularity probably explains in part why today’s puzzle has such a low average. Some of the letters will have helped, too, because T, I and E are all very common; H and F less so. In fact, F is quite uncommon when used at the end of an answer.
With 90 possible solutions, I was never going to score a 2/6 (if I had, you’d have thought I cheated, right?), but I played a word that might have been correct anyway. Usually, with lots of potential solutions, I narrow things down first but with two yellows I just wanted to turn a couple of them green.
I played TONED because lots of my choices had T at the start and E in fourth and my hunch proved correct: TONED put both of those letters in their rightful places. I didn’t get any other hits, but that turned out not to matter, because despite looking for a while I could only find one solution: THIEF.
WordleBot told me afterwards that I actually had two options, and it was right – I could also have played TWEET. But today was one of those days where the luck was with me. I missed TWEET entirely, played THIEF instead and scored a 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 #664, Friday 14 April: THIEF
- Wordle #663, Thursday 13 April: CARAT
- Wordle #662, Wednesday 12 April: BORAX
- Wordle #661, Tuesday 11 April: QUALM
- Wordle #660, Monday 10 April: UNDER
- Wordle #659, Sunday 9 April: SNAFU
- Wordle #658, Saturday 8 April: LEDGE
- Wordle #657, Friday 7 April: LOCUS
- Wordle #656, Thursday 6 April: LEAFY
- Wordle #655, Wednesday 5 April: SMASH
- Wordle #654, Tuesday 4 April: RATIO
- Wordle #653, Monday 3 April: FLORA
- Wordle #652, Sunday 2 April: STOCK
- Wordle #651, Saturday 1 April: MARCH
- Wordle #650, Friday 31 March: EVERY
- Wordle #649, Thursday 30 March: BREAD
- Wordle #648, Wednesday 29 March: BESET
- Wordle #647, Tuesday 28 March: HURRY
- Wordle #646, Monday 27 March: GUANO
- Wordle #645, Sunday 26 March: UNTIE
- Wordle #644, Saturday 25 March: VOTER
- Wordle #643, Friday 24 March: GROUT
- Wordle #642, Thursday 23 March: STAID
- Wordle #641, Wednesday 22 March: DUVET
- Wordle #640, Tuesday 21 March: TOUGH
- Wordle #639, Monday 20 March: GLOVE
- Wordle #638, Sunday 19 March: CREDO
- Wordle #637, Saturday 18 March: YACHT
- Wordle #636, Friday 17 March: MEALY
- Wordle #635, Thursday 16 March: CIDER
- 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
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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