Today’s Wordle answer is far easier than the previous couple, but could still cause a few problems. WordleBot, the NYT’s AI helper tool, says people are solving it in an average of 3.8 guesses, so I don’t expect that too many people will fail today.
You still might want some Wordle hints, though, because failure in this game is only ever six guesses away. So read on and I’ll give you some clues for game #669 – 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 #669) – 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 #669) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is T.
T is one of the most common starting letters in the game, beginning 149 of Wordle’s 2,309 answers. That gives it a ranking of fourth in the alphabet, behind only S, C and B.
Wordle hints (game #669) – 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 #669) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is P.
P is a middling end letter in Wordle. It features in 56 answers, which places it 12th in the alphabet. Don’t expect it to happen that often compared to the likes of E, Y and T.
Wordle hints (game #669) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for Wordle hints today? Don’t worry, I’ll give you one more for game #669.
- Today’s Wordle answer hits hard.
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 #669)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #669) is… THUMP.
This represents the calm after yesterday’s storm. Where game #668 was a really tough one which many people failed to solve (and yes, I’m sorry if yesterday’s Wordle ended your streak – but really, it’s your own fault), today’s is far more manageable.
WordleBot says people are solving it in an average of 3.8 guesses, and I’d be surprised if many avid Wordlers needed more than four or at most five for it. It took me four, because I made an incredibly stupid mistake that I’m embarrassed to recount. I hang my head in shame at it.
Anyway, THUMP is pretty straightforward. T is the fifth most common letter overall in Wordle, and the fourth most likely to start an answer. The TH combination at the beginning of the word is also pretty common: there are 24 of these among the original 2,309 Wordle answers. That might not sound like a lot, but there are also 36 Wordle answers that end in TH, and a bunch more that occur in the middle of a solution (I haven’t calculated the latter). If you see a T, and your brain works like mine, you immediately think ‘Ah! This probably has an H with it.’ And today it did.
The other letters are more middling: U, M and P rank 11th, 16th and 15th respectively in terms of overall frequency in the game. But the word itself is in regular use and there’s no too-many-answers problem to navigate.
My pick of the best Wordle starting words, STARE, gave me a single yellow T and left me with 119 possible solutions, according to WordleBot. SLATE was in the same ballpark (102), but CRANE (357) and SLANT (180) were both higher, as was ADIEU, the most popular choice (246). The most successful starter today, of the top words, was TRACE: just 23 options left here.
My go-to second word with a single T is always POINT and today it was incredibly lucky: it gave me a yellow P to go with my yellow T and left me with just two possible answers. Yet somehow, I managed to screw it up from here.
What happened was I looked at the board and was overconfident and distracted. I was playing in the daytime, while at work, so I could write this column up. I had a meeting in 10 minutes and just wanted to get it finished. So I rushed it. Yellow T and yellow P… well, it must be TULIP, I thought.
Obviously not – because the I was already ruled out. Instead, the two words left to me, according to WordleBot, were the eventual answer, THUMP, plus CUTUP – and frankly, the latter doesn’t sound like an actual Wordle answer. It’s certainly not one I would have thought of.
If I’d taken a little more time I’d have spotted that TULIP couldn’t be the answer. I’m pretty certain I’d have then found THUMP instead, given that no other word was a realistic choice. If, if, if…
When the T and P turned green on the next guess, and the U turned yellow, I realized my mistake, looked again at the board, and spotted THUMP. I played that next and scored a frustrating 4/6.
The moral of the story? I’m an idiot who should spend less time lecturing others on how to play Wordle and more time on my own game.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #668)
In a different time zone where it’s still Tuesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #668, too.
- Wordle yesterday had two vowels.
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was H.
- There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was D.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer means to pursue, or it’s also a thing that likes to pursue.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #668)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #668) was… HOUND.
How did you find this one, then? My guess: either very difficult and you lost your streak/scraped home with a 6/6, or not too bad at all. Which one it is may depend on your choice of the best Wordle starting words, but is more likely linked to how strategically you approached the game.
That’s because today’s Wordle is one of those too-many-options games we all love to hate. You know – like CATCH/WATCH/HATCH/BATCH/PATCH/MATCH or WASTE/BASTE/HASTE/PASTE.
The same consonants generally crop up at the start of all of these types of games, so many people will have been picking from B, F, M, P, H, W – or rather, from BOUND, FOUND, MOUND, POUND, HOUND and WOUND.
But we’ll get to that in a minute. First, the details. WordleBot says people are solving it in 4.7 guesses, which follows on from 4.4 for yesterday’s game (see below) and 4.2 for Sunday’s DWELT. That’s a pretty tough run of games.
It begins with an H, which is the least common starting letter out of the six that might have led the answer today; if you played BOUND, or FOUND, before then, I understand why. But of course, it’s important to note that mathematically, the H was just as likely to be the starting letter as B, F, or any of the others. It may be less common overall, but they each had a 1/6 chance of being the first letter by the time you got to the -OUND stage.
How quickly you got to that point may well have depended on what your first guess was. STARE, my opening gambit, drew a blank for the second game in succession and left me with 318 possible solutions. SLATE was similarly useless and left 308. TRACE, CARTE and CRATE – 344 for each – ditto.
Today, however, SLANT and CRANE were a bit more helpful, cutting down the options to a ‘mere’ 67. ADIEU, which bafflingly continues to be the most popular starting word, again came up trumps, leaving 37. That doesn’t mean it’s a good choice overall (it’s not), but it was good today.
Yesterday I followed up my unsuccessful STARE with a similarly useless CLOUD. Today, I varied it slightly, just because I wanted to, and went with COULD. And I got lucky: green O! Green U! Green D!
I now had just six words left, and I could see right away what they were. The missing letter before the D had to be N, so I was in an -OUND trap. Or rather, it would have been if I played on hard mode. I don’t, because a) I write this column, and more people play in normal mode and b) I like to win.
That meant I could do what any right thinking person would do today and play a word designed to narrow down the options.
I was helped slightly in this task by remembering that FOUND had been a past Wordle answer. It was way back in March 2022 (game #282), and I had ended up in the exact same trap, escaping on that day with a 5/6.
Today, I had an advantage: with only five words to pick from, not six, I could play WHOMP and guarantee a 4/6. If the W turned green, it would be WOUND. If the H went yellow, then HOUND, if the M then MOUND and if the P then POUND. If none of them changed color, it had to be BOUND.
Well, the H duly turned yellow and I scored my 4/6. And as an extra bonus, it took WordleBot 5/6 guesses today. Not so smart now, bot!
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 #668, Tuesday 18 April: HOUND
- Wordle #667, Monday 17 April: WHIFF
- 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
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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