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 #878) – clue #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has a vowel in one place*.
* 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 #878) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is S.
S is the most common starting letter in the game, featuring in 365 of Wordle’s 2,309 answers. In fact, it’s almost twice as likely to begin an answer as the next most common starting letter, C.
Wordle hints (game #878) – clue #3 – repeated letters
Does today’s Wordle have any repeated letters?
• There are 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 #878) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is Y.
Y is the second most common ending letter in the game, behind only E. In total, 364 Wordle answers end with a Y.
Wordle hints (game #878) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #878.
- Today’s Wordle answer is impudent!
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 #878)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #878) is… SASSY.
Wow. Where to start with this one then?
Well, firstly let’s talk about how difficult it is, because that’s definitely a thing today. WordleBot, the NYT’s AI helper tool, says it has an average score of 5.0 from those who have played it so far – which makes it the seventh toughest so far in 2023. Yes, it’s harder than the double-whammy of NINJA and GLAZE last week, harder than DADDY in September (game #833, 4.9 score), harder in fact than any since VERVE back in August (#795, 5.1).
Next, we may as well talk about why it’s difficult – as if you needed telling. Regular readers of this column will know that repeated letters usually complicate things, even more so if they are repeated three times as the S is here.
Only 20 of Wordle’s 2,309 original answers have a triple letter in them – so a mere 0.87% of all games. And as it happens, S gets the triple treatment in only two answers, with the other being SISSY, which was the solution in June 2021. And that, dear Wordlers, was game #2, so I doubt many of you were playing then!
Finally, we should also mention the fact that SASSY is not an incredibly commonplace word in the way that the likes of ACTOR or GREEN are. It’s not obscure, exactly, but it’s not something you’d say that often. Although that said, I have accused my teenage daughters of being sassy on more than one occasion recently, so maybe it depends on your life circumstances.
Perhaps surprisingly, it’s a word that some of the best Wordle starting words did make some progress towards cutting down. For instance SLATE, WordleBot’s favorite opener, left 22 solutions, as did STALE, while LEAST left only eight. The problem is more that it will almost certainly have taken players several more goes to whittle down those couple of dozen answers to just the single one.
That was how it went for me, at least, although some of that was undoubtedly my fault. And in fact, I made several major mistakes that could easily have led to me failing to solve it entirely, for the first time ever. But more of that later.
As I said, WordleBot told me after the game that I had 24 words to pick from for my second guess, but I didn’t come close to finding them all. No, I came up with only a handful: SALAD, SHOAL, SAMBA, SAUNA, SCUBA and SQUAD. My mistake? I somehow failed to realize that Y-ending words were a common theme, with WordleBot telling me afterwards that the likes of SALLY, SAVVY, SANDY, SADLY, SAGGY, SAUCY and others were all possibles too.
That wasn’t my only mistake, actually, given that I also missed SALON, SIGMA, SALVO and others, but it was the most glaring one. Anyway, I played SALAD based on my desire to find out where the yellow A went and also to identify if this was SAMBA or SAUNA. WordleBot described it as a “wonderful choice”, but it was only marginally successful, leaving me six answers still.
And – lightbulb moment – at this point I worked out that I should really have included the Y in my deliberations sooner. Better late than never, eh? With that in mind, I came up with SAPPY, SAVVY and SAGGY, but missed SASSY, SAVOY and SAUCY. No, this was not my finest hour.
Anyway, onwards. What I should have done next is to have played a word to narrow down those options. Instead, thinking that I’d solve it in five at worst, I played SAVVY. That was wrong, but it confirmed the Y at the end and – in my head – left just two options, SAGGY and SAPPY. In reality, SAUCY and SASSY were still on the board too.
Next, I tried SAGGY – but wrong again. No problem, I thought – it must be SAPPY. But again, no. Which left me no options! I stared at the board, run through the remaining letters then it finally dawned on me that the S might be repeated, at which point I decided it must be SASSY. So I played that next and scored my 6/6 (my first since FRANK in mid September).
But there’s a coda to this – because I didn’t only have one remaining answer left. No, it could still have been SAUCY, which I had somehow contrived to have completely missed even though it uses a vowel and a very-common letter C, rather than the more uncommon thrice-repeated S. If I had spotted SAUCY I would definitely have played it next and finally lost my streak, which currently stands at 670. So I had a very lucky escape on a day when others may not be so lucky.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #877)
In a different time zone where it’s still Monday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #877, 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 G.
G is the eighth most common starting letter, featuring in 115 Wordle answers. It’s often paired with an L to make GL— – but I’m not revealing whether that’s the case today.
- There were 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 N.
N is a pretty common ending letter in Wordle: it’s the seventh most likely in that position and features in 130 solutions.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #877.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is envious or inexperienced.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #877)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #877) was… GREEN.
It’s not that often we get four seemingly easy games in a row, but that’s the scenario that’s now played out with the arrival of today’s GREEN.
GREEN has an average score of 3.7, according to WordleBot, following yesterday’s MEANT (3.5, see below), Saturday’s ACTOR (3.6) and Friday’s LEASH (3.2). The last time we had four consecutive games with a score below 4.0 was back in September.
However, all may not be what it seems. Unlike the other three games, which were all genuinely straightforward Wordles, GREEN may well cause some people problems – because it has a repeated letter. I don’t want to overstate the impact of a repeat in a game, but it definitely makes things harder on average.
The fact that today’s word still has a low score is probably partly due to the fact that a couple of the best Wordle starting words cut down the remaining answers list considerably. CRANE, which is WordleBot’s second favorite opener and also the general public’s seventh most popular, left only two answers today, a figure that was matched by CRONE.
It may not be the only factor, though – after all, all of the letters in GREEN are common, and E is by a distance the most likely letter to be repeated, so this is unlikely to have been horribly difficult for anyone.
I didn’t find it either easy or hard, scoring a middling 4/6 with no major incidents. STARE left me 181 answers, then LINED cut that to four. The trouble was, those four split into two distinct groups: GREEN/ PREEN, and NEWER/NEVER. And that meant that whichever answer I guessed, I might well have faced a 50/50 on my fourth guess, and ultimately ended up with a 5/6 score.
I didn’t like the sound of that, so decided instead to use the third guess to narrow it down further and guarantee a 4/6. PROVE was the tool I chose for that, and it did the job nicely, giving me the green R that confirmed it was either PREEN or GREEN, but without the P – so it had to be the latter. I played GREEN next and solved this Wordle on the fourth guess.
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 #877, Monday 13 November: GREEN
- Wordle #876, Sunday 12 November: MEANT
- Wordle #875, Saturday 11 November: ACTOR
- Wordle #874, Friday 10 November: LEASH
- Wordle #873, Thursday 9 November: GLAZE
- Wordle #872, Wednesday 8 November: NINJA
- Wordle #871, Tuesday 7 November: LIMIT
- Wordle #870, Monday 6 November: TRADE
- Wordle #869, Sunday 5 November: FLARE
- Wordle #868, Saturday 4 November: MANIA
- Wordle #867, Friday 3 November: ARDOR
- Wordle #866, Thursday 2 November: UNTIL
- Wordle #865, Wednesday 1 November: NOISE
- 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
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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