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 #888) – 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 #888) – 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 #888) – 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 #888) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is W.
W is an uncommon ending letter in Wordle. A mere 17 games finish with one, out of 2,309 original answers.
Wordle hints (game #888) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #888.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a flinging action.
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 #888)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #888) is… THROW.
I’ll be honest, I’ve been a little off my game lately. As you might have noticed, Black Friday deals are everywhere you look, and I’ve been busy finding big savings on everything from air fryers to OLED TVs. There’s no Wordle angle to it – it’s not like the New York Times is offering a price cut on a WordleBot subscription or anything – but it might go some way to explaining why I yet again scored a 4/6 on a day when the average is below that (3.7).
Then again, it could just be that I got unlucky. My opening guess of STARE left me with 48 possible solutions, whereas anyone starting with TRACE – another of the best Wordle starting words – had only 11 to sift through.
The task proved too tricky for me. PRINT was a decent guess but only cut that number to 12, and though I’d lucked-out on Wednesday with a 1-in-26 shot at PIXEL, I had to settle for a more modest return today. I could see that with the T having been ruled out at the end of the word it was likely to instead start it. The options I came up with included THROB, THROW, TORCH, TUMOR, TUTOR and TURBO, although I also had a couple with the T in the middle: MOTOR and ROTOR, plus FORTH and WORTH. I missed THRUM and FORTY.
I was going to play TORCH, but the fact that B featured in both THROB and TURBO pointed me towards that instead. So I went with THROB and for a second thought I’d guessed correctly – but no, the final letter stayed gray, so I had to play THROW next for a 4/6.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #887)
In a different time zone where it’s still Thursday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #887, too.
- Wordle yesterday had 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).
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was Q.
Q is one of the least likely letters to start a Wordle answer – but then again, it’s also one of the least common letters in the game anywhere!
- 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 #887.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a monarch.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #887)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #887) was… QUEEN.
For today’s column, I would like to demonstrate that I CAN SOMETIMES BE REALLY STUPID. QUEEN is a fairly tough puzzle, sure, but even so I made a really silly mistake that cost me a guess.
I say it’s a fairly tough puzzle, but WordleBot, the NYT’s AI helper tool, says it has an average score of 3.8. That’s below the 4.0 mark that I tend to think of as the dividing line between easier and harder. That’s a little surprising, because QUEEN should trouble some people, on account of it having both an uncommon letter (Q) and a repeated E.
Then again, E is the most common letter to be repeated, and maybe the Q was fresh in people’s mind from QUEUE on Sunday.
Anyway, it should have been hard, despite what WordleBot says, and I made it harder for myself.
I started, as always, with STARE – one of the best Wordle starting words but one that today left a huge pool of possible answers (249 of them). Not that many others were better – a few options left around 80 possible answers, but most were over 100.
I followed up with BLEND and that worked wonderfully well, turning the E green and giving me a yellow N too. Remarkably, that cut the answers list to only two: ENEMY and QUEEN.
And then I had a brain malfunction. I really struggled to come up with words that fit, and didn’t find either ENEMY or QUEEN. What I did find was NIECE – which would have been fine, but for the fact that the E was already ruled out from appearing in the final spot.
Somehow, I missed this.
As WordleBot told me rather curtly afterwards, “This guess didn’t eliminate any of the remaining words.” It then awarded me zero for skill, which was probably fair.
For the fourth guess, then, I still faced the same two choices, neither of which I’d yet identified. After a further scan of the board – helped by the fact that I now knew the N wasn’t at the start of the word, so it’s not like NIECE didn’t teach me anything – I finally spotted QUEEN and played that next for a 4/6.
Even then, the fact that I didn’t find ENEMY at all meant that I could have ended up with a 5/6, if I’d got that fourth guess wrong. Not my finest hour, then.
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 #887, Thursday 23 November: QUEEN
- Wordle #886, Wednesday 22 November: PIXEL
- Wordle #885, Tuesday 21 November: PIANO
- Wordle #884, Monday 20 November: CANDY
- Wordle #883, Sunday 19 November: QUEUE
- Wordle #882, Saturday 18 November: THINK
- Wordle #881, Friday 17 November: TARDY
- Wordle #880, Thursday 16 November: TRUST
- Wordle #879, Wednesday 15 November: SIGHT
- Wordle #878, Tuesday 14 November: SASSY
- 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
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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