Oh dear! Today’s Wordle answer is a really tough one that is sure to give some people a hard time. WordleBot, the NYT’s AI helper tool, says it’s taking people an average of 4.4 guesses to solve it – and I’m hardly surprised.
There’s certainly no shame if you’re looking for Wordle hints today, because failure is only ever six guesses away in this game. Read on and I’ll give you some clues for game #667 – 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 #667) – clue #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has one vowel*.
* 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 #667) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is W.
W is a fairly average letter when it comes to starting an answer. There are 82 solutions that begin with a W, with means that it ranks 13th – so right in the middle of the alphabet.
Wordle hints (game #667) – clue #3 – repeated letters
Does today’s Wordle have any repeated letters?
• There is one repeated letter 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 #667) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is 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.
Wordle hints (game #667) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for Wordle hints today? Don’t worry, I’ll give you one more for game #667.
- Today’s Wordle answer stinks
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 #667)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #667) is… WHIFF.
Right, now this is more like it. The past few games haven’t been too bad – although DWELT wasn’t exactly easy – but WHIFF is a properly difficult answer to find. But it’s not a difficult Wordle answer in an unfair and stupid way, it’s simply a tough challenge to solve, one that requires a bit of thought and some strategic play.
The first thing to note is that, unusually, only one of the letters makes it into the top 10 most common overall: the I, which ranks seventh. H is 14th, F is 19th and W just 21st out of the 26 letters. In most games, at least two and often three or four of the five letters are ranked in the top 10. Even BORAX had three.
And of course, there’s a double letter here, in the form of an FF. This is not an incredibly uncommon scenario, but of the 2,309 original Wordle answers, only 20 contain a double F, so it’s not exactly expected either.
Finally, W as a starting letter is pretty uncommon too: it ranks 13th, which doesn’t sound too bad until you consider than it only occurs in 82 games, which is around 3.5% of the total. Certainly not something you’d plan for.
As a word, it’s in relatively frequent usage; not as common as THIEF or UNDER, say, but definitely more likely to crop up in conversation than SNAFU, CARAT or, yes, BORAX.
Those uncommon letter combinations meant that very few of the best Wordle starting words were remotely helpful today. STARE, my favorite, drew a complete blank and left me with 318 possible solutions. SLATE, WordleBot’s favored option, left 308. CRANE (357), SLANT (530), TRACE, CARTE and CRATE (all 344) were worse still. ADIEU, once again the most popular opening, was slightly better, at 121.
Things were about to get even worse for me, because my second guess, CLOUD, again drew a blank. This has only happened a couple of times to me before, and it’s both disconcerting and panic-inducing. WordleBot told me after the game that I had actually narrowed it down from 318 to just 19 now, but I didn’t know that at the time; I could just see a wall of a gray and my streak beginning to look vulnerable.
I did turn up a letter with my third guess, NIMBY, but only one of them – and only a yellow I. That was arguably the least useful letter I could have got, because with the other vowels all ruled out by now, and with Y joining them, there had to be an I in there somewhere! What I really wanted was a consonant or two (or preferably four), but I was going to have to wait for that.
However, with so many letters now ruled out, I didn’t have many remaining options. In fact, I could find only one – and it ended up being the answer.
My reasoning was straightforward enough: with only one vowel in the game, I was almost certainly looking at a consonant-consonant-I-consonant-consonant pattern. It was possible that the answer started or ended with I, but unlikely; maybe if an N or C had remained that might have been the case (as in ICING), but you don’t generally get words that start or end IPI– or IKI– or IVI–. Four consonants together, meanwhile, is very uncommon in general and not really possible with the letters I had remaining.
So I looked for words that could go together at the start and only really found WH and PH. At the end, meanwhile, there were even fewer choices; I was fairly certain this would be a double letter. After a couple of minutes I spotted WHIFF and, fairly confident by now, played it for a WordleBot-equaling 4/6.
One final note: quite a few people played WHIZZ rather than WHIFF at this stage. Strangely, WordleBot didn’t think it was one of the options today, but if I’d have thought of it, I would have done. Would I have chosen it over WHIFF? Probably not – I have a natural aversion to Zs in Wordle. But I can understand why others did.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #666)
In a different time zone where it’s still Sunday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #666, too.
- Wordle yesterday had one vowel.
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was D.
- There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was T.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer means you previously lived somewhere.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #666)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #666) was… DWELT.
This is a return to slightly harder Wordle territory after a brief respite for a few days. WordleBot says it has an average score of 4.2, which places it into the realms of the quite tricky.
For one, it’s a slightly old-fashioned word; most people would use dwelled rather than dwelt these days, although both are correct. The DW opening is also uncommon: there are only three solutions among the original 2,309 Wordle answers that start with that combination.
Elsewhere, the letters are common. D doesn’t start a Wordle answer as often as you might think, but it’s common in general, as are E, L and T. And T is particularly common at the end of an answer.
My choice of the best Wordle starting words wasn’t so helpful today, leaving me with 90 solutions to wade through. That was pretty unlucky, given than SLATE (18), SLANT (12) and LEAST (8) all narrowed things down considerably. Then again, CRANE (275) and TRACE (86) were not that successful either.
Still, at least I was familiar with my options – because we had this exact same pattern a couple of days ago, with THIEF. On that day I played TONED next and narrowed down my possible options to just two. Today, the luck wasn’t quite with me and that same choice left me with seven answers.
Not that I found them all: I came up with DEBIT, EDICT and DEPTH (which I should have remembered was a past Wordle answer, but didn’t) but not VELDT, DEBUT, DEITY or the eventual answer.
As it happens, my choice of DEBIT for the third answer was a good one, giving me a green D, a green T and effectively a green E, because it now had to be in the middle of the word.
With D-E-T in place, it only took me a few minutes to spot DWELT; there are so few letters that go between a D and E that the process of elimination was pretty straightforward. So I played that next and scored a just-under-par 4/6.
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 #666, Sunday 16 April: DWELT
- Wordle #665, Saturday 15 April: AGONY
- 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
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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