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 #865) – 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 #865) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is N.
N is a surprisingly uncommon starting letter. Only 37 games begin with it and it ranks just 18th in this regard.
Wordle hints (game #865) – 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 #865) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is E.
E is the most common letter to end a Wordle answer by far. That’s one of the reasons why many of the best start words, including SLATE, CRANE, CRATE and STARE, all end with one.
Wordle hints (game #865) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #865.
- 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 #865)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #865) is… NOISE.
November is off to a nice, easy start with a puzzle that WordleBot says people are solving in an average of only 3.6 guesses. Just four Wordles in October were easier.
Why so simple? Well, obviously it will depend on various factors, but the biggest one is that the five letters that make up this word are all incredibly common. E is the most common overall (and also most common at the end of an answer), while the other two vowels rank 4th and 7th respectively. S, meanwhile, ranks 8th and N ranks 9th. No K or W or even an M or G to complicate things slightly.
Another factor is that a couple of the best Wordle starting words really cut down the answers here. Specifically, a couple of very popular ones that I don’t talk about very much. RAISE is only the 42nd best starter word, according to WordleBot, while ARISE is 87th, but they are regularly among the top choices actually played by people. Today, for instance, 4% began with RAISE and 2% with ARISE; only ADIEU, AUDIO, STARE and SLATE were more popular. And today, both left a mere three possible answers – compared to 32 for SLATE or 24 for STARE.
I imagine most RAISE/ARISE players will have scored a 3/6 today, then, and some will even have walked away with a 2/6, thus bringing down the average score.
For my part, I decided to follow up my opening STARE with CLOUD – a word that couldn’t be right but which was designed to eliminate as many options as possible by playing five extra common letters. And it worked. Though CLOUD only gave me a yellow O, by ruling out C, L, U and D I was left with only four remaining answers.
I will readily admit that I didn’t find them all, though. I spotted NOISE early on in my investigations and decided I’d probably play that. I also found POSSE, but that seemed like a less likely answer. The others, both of which I missed, were POISE and OBESE.
I didn’t have a guaranteed 3/6, then, but played NOISE with a certain amount of confidence and got lucky; it was indeed the answer, meaning I beat WordleBot (4/6) today.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #864)
In a different time zone where it’s still Tuesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #864, too.
- Wordle yesterday had vowels in two 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).
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was B.
B is a very, very common starting letter in Wordle. In fact, it’s the third most common overall, behind only S and C.
- There were no repeated letters in yesterday’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.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was K.
K is much more common at the end of a Wordle answer than at the start, and in fact ranks ninth overall in this regard.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #864.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is barren and depressing.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #864)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #864) was… BLEAK.
Was it a BLEAK day for you? Hopefully not. WordleBot says this puzzle has an average score of 4.1, so it might have been on the harder side of things, but it’s not among the worst ones we’ve ever had.
Two of these letters are less common than the other three in general, but very common in their specific positions today. To take B first, it ranks just 18th overall but is the third most likely to start a Wordle answer. That’s one of the biggest differences between general and specific ranking in the game. K is arguably another of those, as it ranks 20th overall but ninth when used at the end of an answer.
Much will have depended, then, on how quickly you identified that one of those two was in the word – because chances are you’ll have had the L, E and A fairly early on.
Not many of the best Wordle starting words contain either a B or a K, but some options did still cut down the possible answers list considerably. SLATE, for instance – WordleBot’s favorite starter – left just nine answers. PLANE was also at nine, while PLATE was at eight.
At the other end of the scale was the likes of my choice, STARE; this left 110 options and pretty much guaranteed that I’d have to settle for a 4/6 today.
I certainly didn’t attempt to write down all of the possible answers at this stage, instead focusing on the dual ambitions of trying to identify where the yellow A and E were and which common consonants were included. My second choice was therefore LADEN, which added the very common L, D and N into the mix.
WordleBot liked that well enough, giving me 93/99 for skill. It also told me that I now had five words left – though I didn’t know that at the time I was playing. Indeed, I only found three myself: EQUAL, BLEAK and GLEAM. The other two, WordleBot said, were FECAL and FELLA.
I was fairly sure EQUAL had been a past Wordle answer and it had – about a year ago, game #481. So in my mind, I had a 50/50 between GLEAM and BLEAK and went for the former as the slightly more likely answer.
This was wrong, but it had the desired effect of leaving just one possible answer. I played BLEAK next and scored a 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 #864, Tuesday 31 October: BLEAK
- Wordle #863, Monday 30 October: GRAIL
- Wordle #862, Sunday 29 October: PHONY
- Wordle #861, Saturday 28 October: MASON
- Wordle #860, Friday 27 October: NOBLE
- Wordle #859, Thursday 26 October: PIQUE
- Wordle #858, Wednesday 25 October: RETRY
- Wordle #857, Tuesday 24 October: CAUSE
- Wordle #856, Monday 23 October: TEMPO
- Wordle #855, Sunday 22 October: GIVEN
- Wordle #854, Saturday 21 October: SMIRK
- Wordle #853, Friday 20 October: OCCUR
- Wordle #852, Thursday 19 October: SPLAT
- Wordle #851, Wednesday 18 October: MERCY
- Wordle #850, Tuesday 17 October: ADULT
- Wordle #849, Monday 16 October: GRAPH
- Wordle #848, Sunday 15 October: LEAKY
- Wordle #847, Saturday 14 October: AGENT
- Wordle #846, Friday 13 October: UNCLE
- Wordle #845, Thursday 12 October: KNELT
- Wordle #844, Wednesday 11 October: SKUNK
- Wordle #843, Tuesday 10 October: SNAIL
- Wordle #842, Monday 9 October: TRUTH
- Wordle #841, Sunday 8 October: BINGE
- Wordle #840, Saturday 7 October: VIOLA
- Wordle #839, Friday 6 October: CHIME
- Wordle #838, Thursday 5 October: BUNCH
- Wordle #837, Wednesday 4 October: SPURT
- Wordle #836, Tuesday 3 October: WHILE
- Wordle #835, Monday 2 October: MERRY
- Wordle #834, Sunday 1 October: BERET
- Wordle #833, Saturday 30 September: DADDY
- Wordle #832, Friday 29 September: AZURE
- Wordle #831, Thursday 28 September: COACH
- Wordle #830, Wednesday 27 September: SMILE
- Wordle #829, Tuesday 26 September: LOYAL
- Wordle #828, Monday 25 September: ROCKY
- Wordle #827, Sunday 24 September: RIGHT
- Wordle #826, Saturday 23 September: CAROL
- Wordle #825, Friday 22 September: BRUSH
- Wordle #824, Thursday 21 September: STONE
- Wordle #823, Wednesday 20 September: SNARE
- Wordle #822, Tuesday 19 September: CLOSE
- Wordle #821, Monday 18 September: FRANK
- Wordle #820, Sunday 17 September: MUSIC
- Wordle #819, Saturday 16 September: ANGEL
- Wordle #818, Friday 15 September: EXERT
- Wordle #817, Thursday 14 September: RAYON
- Wordle #816, Wednesday 13 September: CLEAR
- Wordle #815, Tuesday 12 September: WHISK
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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