It’s time for your daily round of Wordle hints, expertly crafted to help you keep your streak going even on the toughest of days.
You might think that you don’t need any clues for Wordle today, but remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.
Below, you’ll find a selection of Wordle hints to guide you in the right direction. You don’t have to use them all, but there are five in total should you need them, covering vowels, starting letter, ending letter and more. And if you don’t have time to play at all, you can see the answer, too.
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: Wordle hints and today’s answer 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 #730) – 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 #730) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is K.
K is not a common starting letter in Wordle by any measure. In fact it ranks 22nd out of 26; a mere 20 answers begin with a K.
Wordle hints (game #730) – 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 #730) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is O.
O is a middling ending letter. It ranks 12th in this regard, and finishes 58 Wordle answers in total.
Wordle hints (game #730) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #730.
- Today’s Wordle answer makes a noise.
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 #730)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #730) is… KAZOO.
Oh dear. If you thought yesterday’s Wordle, SHYLY, was difficult (and it was – see below) then this is on another level entirely.
I’ve recorded the average score for more than 300 Wordle answers dating back more than a year. Among those, KAZOO ranks as the ninth hardest Wordle ever, and also the fifth hardest so far in 2023. Admittedly, there have now been 730 Wordle words, so my sample size is nowhere near definitive, but it is definitely the fifth hardest this year, because I do have the averages for each of those game.
WordleBot says people are solving it in an average of 5.1 guesses – which is perilously close to the six guesses you are allowed in Wordle. Remember, that’s an average; some people will solve it in fewer guesses (I did), so some people are almost certainly failing to find the answer and are losing their streaks as a result. If you’re one of them, I sympathize.
You don’t have to be a genius to work out why it’s so hard, but in case you want me to spell it out… well, it’s fourfold.
Firstly, it has a repeated letter. Yes, it’s an O, which is the second most likely letter to be repeated in Wordle, but a repeat still complicates matters even if it’s a relatively frequent occurrence.
Secondly, it contains a Z. This is the fourth least common letter in Wordle overall, and only crops up in 40 of the original 2,308 answers. There’s no reason to expect one in most games.
Thirdly, it starts with a K – not a particularly common letter in general (it ranks just 20th) and particularly unlikely to begin a Wordle answer. In fact, a mere 20 games start with a K, making it the joint fourth least likely letter to appear there.
You probably don’t need a fourth reason, but just for good luck, consider also that it’s a pretty uncommon word! Other reasonably difficult recent answers – SHYLY, MAYBE, BALSA and HATER, for instance – are for more widely used. Even ENNUI, which was the super-tough answer to game #716, is more common. That’s proven by a look at the Word And Phrase Frequency website, which says ENNUI is the 26,241th most common word in the English language, whereas KAZOO is just the 41,037th.
Everything was stacked against you, then, and for most people even the best Wordle starting words won’t have helped. SLATE (199), STARE (188), CRANE (188), SLANT (269), TRACE (185)… they all left lots of solutions. ADIEU was higher still (352). The best I could find was a word that is very popular but not actually a great choice most days: AUDIO. That left just 18 possible solutions.
My strategy with just a single yellow A to work with was to rule out a few more consonants and maybe one more vowel – so I went with CLING. No, this couldn’t have been right, but it did cut my options list from 188 to 25.
Next up, I did something that I shouldn’t have done, and played a word that contained a C – despite the fact that the previous word had ruled it out. This was not deliberate; I simply forgot I’d already played the C. But as it happened, it worked very well, because BACKY gave me a green A and yellow K, and reduced my options to just two.
So, I was on the fourth guess with two words to pick from: KAZOO or KAPPA. I didn’t think of the latter, so I played the former and came away from a tough game with a 4/6.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #729)
In a different time zone where it’s still Sunday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #729, too.
- Wordle yesterday had no vowels.
- 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 Y.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer acts timidly.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #729)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #729) was… SHYLY.
This is a much harder Wordle word to find than the previous couple, which were both around the 3.5 mark in terms of average score. Today’s game, in contrast, has an average of 4.2, according to WordleBot, and is theoretically harder than even that suggests.
There are a couple of reasons for that. One is that it contains no vowels – not a unique occurrence in Wordle, but still an uncommon one. I say ‘no vowels’, but it depends on whether you count Y as one or not; I don’t, in general, although it’s fair to say that the Ys do carry out the job of a vowel in SHYLY.
Either way, that’s likely to have thrown people off; most people will try to find a couple of vowels in their first 2-3 guesses, so the fact that none exist here will probably have increased the number of moves you needed. After all, this is one of just 12 of Wordle’s original 2,308 answers that contains no standard vowels, so it’s not like you’ll have been expecting it.
It’s also a word that contains two Ys – and that’s even less likely to occur. There are just eight games that contain two Ys, meaning you’d only expect one every 288 answers! As it happens, we’ve only had so far – game #409, COYLY, in August 2022 – so 320 days ago. Maybe we should have expected one, eh?
Only two of the best Wordle starting words will have helped much today. SLATE (20) and SLANT (31) both kept the numbers down a little, but for most people – myself included – you’ll have had to wade through lots of options on your second guess.
My choice of STARE left 81 possible solutions, but I had a secret weapon lined up for my second move: PYLON. This gave me a yellow Y and L, and narrowed down my possible answers list to just three: SHYLY, SLYLY and SLIMY. And of course, I picked the wrong one next, going for SLIMY. But it didn’t matter, because either of those three would have guaranteed a solve on the next guess; the hard work was all done by that second guess.
So, I played SLIMY and got it wrong, then knew it had to be SHYLY and got it right for a 4/6 on a difficult day.
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 #729, Sunday 18 June: SHYLY
- Wordle #728, Saturday 17 June: RANCH
- Wordle #727, Friday 16 June: STRAP
- Wordle #726, Thursday 15 June: MAYBE
- Wordle #725, Wednesday 14 June: CRIME
- Wordle #724, Tuesday 13 June: PLUNK
- Wordle #723, Monday 12 June: WRONG
- Wordle #722, Sunday 11 June: GUARD
- Wordle #721, Saturday 10 June: AGAIN
- Wordle #720, Friday 9 June: BALSA
- Wordle #719, Thursday 8 June: CRUMB
- Wordle #718, Wednesday 7 June: HATER
- Wordle #717, Tuesday 6 June: SCOUT
- Wordle #716, Monday 5 June: ENNUI
- Wordle #715, Sunday 4 June: BEAST
- Wordle #714, Saturday 3 June: NANNY
- Wordle #713, Friday 2 June: HUMID
- Wordle #712, Thursday 1 June: JAZZY
- Wordle #711, Wednesday 31 May: AGILE
- Wordle #710, Tuesday 30 May: KNEEL
- Wordle #709, Monday 29 May: MOUSE
- Wordle #708, Sunday 28 May: SKIMP
- Wordle #707, Saturday 27 May: RAMEN
- Wordle #706, Friday 26 May: SWINE
- Wordle #705, Thursday 25 May: BAGEL
- Wordle #704, Wednesday 24 May: UTTER
- Wordle #703, Tuesday 23 May: CLERK
- Wordle #702, Monday 22 May: IGLOO
- Wordle #701, Sunday 21 May: BRASH
- Wordle #700, Saturday 20 May: FLASK
- Wordle #699, Friday 19 May: GRIEF
- Wordle #698, Thursday 18 May: SHORN
- Wordle #697, Wednesday 17 May: PLANK
- Wordle #696, Tuesday 16 May: LATTE
- Wordle #695, Monday 15 May: CANOE
- Wordle #694, Sunday 14 May: SCARF
- Wordle #693, Saturday 13 May: ACRID
- Wordle #692, Friday 12 May: SNACK
- Wordle #691, Thursday 11 May: BROOM
- Wordle #690, Wednesday 10 May: ETHIC
- Wordle #689, Tuesday 9 May: COCOA
- Wordle #688, Monday 8 May: AGLOW
- Wordle #687, Sunday 7 May: GHOUL
- Wordle #686, Saturday 6 May: ANGER
- Wordle #685, Friday 5 May: BELOW
- Wordle #684, Thursday 4 May: GUPPY
- Wordle #683, Wednesday 3 May: HORDE
- Wordle #682, Tuesday 2 May: SULKY
- Wordle #681, Monday 1 May: RANGE
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 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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