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 #802) – clue #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has vowels in four 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 #802) – 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 #802) – 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 #802) – 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 #802) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #802.
- Today’s Wordle answer is sound.
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 #802)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #802) is… AUDIO.
I talk a lot about the best Wordle starting words. I’m a firm believer in the advantage you gain by choosing a good one and sticking with it. And I regularly chastise people for starting with AUDIO or ADIEU, the two most popular options, because neither of them are actually among the best choices.
Well, for today at least, I shall shut up.
More so than any previous Wordle yet, this puzzle will split players into two camps.
On the one hand, the roughly 6% of players who start each game with AUDIO and who duly scored a fabled 1/6 today. On the other, everyone else.
Although that said, there’s a subset of group one, namely people who started with ADIEU; this is actually an even more popular opening guess than AUDIO, with around 9% beginning with it, and today it left just two possible solutions (AUDIO and AUDIT).
So, you have roughly 15% of players scoring either a 1/6 or (probably) 2/6 here. The fact that WordleBot says the average score is as high as 3.5 implies that for everyone else, this may have actually been quite tricky.
It certainly wasn’t a good beginning for anyone else, because most options left something north of 100 possible solutions. My choice, STARE, was at 186. Ouch!
Fortunately, my second word worked remarkably well. I always follow up a single yellow A with either MADLY or BADLY. Today, I went with BADLY and it cut my options to just two. From 186!
Those two were AUDIO and VODKA and I didn’t even consider the latter. As soon as I realized AUDIO was an option I just knew it would be the answer and played it next for a 3/6 that was far from the highest score today, but which somehow beat WordleBot all the same!
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #801)
In a different time zone where it’s still Tuesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #801, too.
- Wordle yesterday had vowels in two places.
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was C.
- There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was R.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is an amusing escapade.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #801)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #801) was… CAPER.
Generally, Wordle words that end in ER are among the hardest type to uncover. That pattern of consonant-vowel-consonant-ER has many, many possibilities and working out which letters go in positions #1 and #3 can be a major problem. But no so much today. Well, so long as you chose a fortunate starting word.
WordleBot says this one has an average score of 4.1, placing it below that of many ER games; the previous couple of examples, for instance, were LOVER and FLYER, both of which had a score of 4.3, while the likes of COWER (5.0), HATER (4.6) and JOKER (5.4) were all way above that.
The reason why this isn’t quite so bad as some others? A couple of the best Wordle starting words were very lucky today. CRATE (four possible solutions), CRANE (6) and TRACE (8) were all pretty good, while CARTE and CARET left just one answer. Not that many people begin with the latter two, but 1% started with CRANE, so that will inevitably have reduced the average.
Even without that, finding a C and P is a lot easier than uncovering the L and V for LOVER or the C and W for COWER, let alone the J and K for JOKER.
It still took me four guesses to solve it, mind. My second attempt was RADAR, a word I thought would help me place the A and R, thus ruling out both a) non ER words and b) words that started with R. As it happened, it ruled in ER words, with the second R turning green but the first one staying gray. Still, with the A turning green in position #2, I was now almost certain that this was an -A-ER game.
I’d had 80 possible solutions left after my first guess, while RADAR had reduced those to a still sizeable 21. CAMEL, which WordleBot would have played, left just two. Oh well.
I had a nice long list of my own, and could see that there was no point in me shooting for the answer yet; it could be EAGER or WAGER or PACER or CAPER or LAYER or MAKER or BAKER of PALER or any of a dozen or so more. So, I played another spoiler word: PLUCK.
I thought this was a decent choice, but WordleBot wasn’t so sure, awarding me just 68/99 for skill. Yeah, well what does the ‘Bot know? Not much, seemingly, as PLUCK gave me yellow C and P and reduced my answer list to just one, CAPER. I played that next for a perfectly acceptable 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 #801, Tuesday 29 August: CAPER
- Wordle #800, Monday 28 August: WRITE
- Wordle #799, Sunday 27 August: PEACE
- Wordle #798, Saturday 26 August: CHOIR
- Wordle #797, Friday 25 August: OCEAN
- Wordle #796, Thursday 24 August: WORDY
- Wordle #795, Wednesday 23 August: VERVE
- Wordle #794, Tuesday 22 August: SPICE
- Wordle #793, Monday 21 August: BEACH
- Wordle #792, Sunday 20 August: QUEST
- Wordle #791, Saturday 19 August: MAGMA
- Wordle #790, Friday 18 August: EXACT
- Wordle #789, Thursday 17 August: AMISS
- Wordle #788, Wednesday 16 August: SCRUB
- Wordle #787, Tuesday 15 August: INDEX
- Wordle #786, Monday 14 August: SNAKY
- Wordle #785, Sunday 13 August: WRATH
- Wordle #784, Saturday 12 August: QUICK
- Wordle #783, Friday 11 August: HELLO
- Wordle #782, Thursday 10 August: EMPTY
- Wordle #781, Wednesday 9 August: LOVER
- Wordle #780, Tuesday 8 August: BULLY
- Wordle #779, Monday 7 August: BROOK
- Wordle #778, Sunday 6 August: POLYP
- Wordle #777, Saturday 5 August: ANODE
- Wordle #776, Friday 4 August: CHART
- Wordle #775, Thursday 3 August: PARTY
- Wordle #774, Wednesday 2 August: BEGET
- Wordle #773, Tuesday 1 August: TENTH
- Wordle #772, Monday 31 July: STYLE
- Wordle #771, Sunday 30 July: BATHE
- Wordle #770, Saturday 29 July: CURLY
- Wordle #769, Friday 28 July: ETHOS
- Wordle #768, Thursday 27 July: DISCO
- Wordle #767, Wednesday 26 July: HEART
- Wordle #766, Tuesday 25 July: WHEEL
- Wordle #765, Monday 24 July: HOBBY
- Wordle #764, Sunday 23 July: WHALE
- Wordle #763, Saturday 22 July: FROZE
- Wordle #762, Friday 21 July: BURLY
- Wordle #761, Thursday 20 July: FLANK
- Wordle #760, Wednesday 19 July: TONIC
- Wordle #759, Tuesday 18 July: FLYER
- Wordle #758, Monday 17 July: DROOP
- Wordle #757, Sunday 16 July: TOPAZ
- Wordle #756, Saturday 15 July: CRONE
- Wordle #755, Friday 14 July: FIEND
- Wordle #754, Thursday 13 July: BARGE
- Wordle #753, Wednesday 12 July: WHIRL
- Wordle #752, Tuesday 11 July: EARTH
- Wordle #751, Monday 10 July: FOLLY
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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