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 #896) – clue #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has 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).
Wordle hints (game #896) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is 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.
Wordle hints (game #896) – 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 #896) – 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 #896) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #896.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a category of an artform.
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 #896)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #896) is… GENRE.
It’s the weekend, it’s Wordle and it’s… a nice puzzle that may fox a few of you. WordleBot, the NYT’s often-disparaging helper tool (seriously, could they not have made it a bit more positive?) says it has an average score of 4.0 among those who have played it so far, placing it right in the middle of the difficulty range.
The only real complication with it is the repeated E, but that’s not a major problem, given that E is repeated so often it’s hardly an unusual occurrence. In fact, there are 172 games in which E appears twice – meaning it’s more than getting a single V, Z, X, Q or J. And really, that’s underselling it – it’s at least four times more common than any of those letters except for V. Simply put, if an E appears early on in an answer you should always consider the possibility that there’ll be another one lurking somewhere.
That aside, there’s nothing to be unduly worried about here, so I expect some good scores from those of you who play this game properly. And by that, I mean opening with one of the best Wordle starting words, for starters. STARE, my choice, left just seven options today. CRANE, WordleBot’s second favorite, left only six. SNARE left only a single solution!
With so few words to pick from, you might think I’d have been able to find them all, but actually a few of them are quite obscure: GENRE, WHERE and CHORE are all obvious enough, but, LUCRE , OCHRE, INURE and OMBRE a lot less so. Guess which three I found?
Not that it mattered. I played CHORE, because of the three I’d found it would do the best job of narrowing down the options. In my head, it did that – leaving me with only GENRE to play. In reality, it left me with two: GENRE and INURE. So this was one of those games were I unknowingly had a 50/50 and picked correctly. In a parallel universe, I’d be cursing my luck today. In this one, I happily walked away with a 3/6. Sorry, parallel-universe-Marc!
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #895)
In a different time zone where it’s still Friday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #895, 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 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.
- 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 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 #895.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is no longer available.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #895)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #895) was… TAKEN.
This might be my luckiest guess ever – and I’ve had a few of them over the past couple of years! But before we get to that, let’s talk about TAKEN as a Wordle answer. It would appear to be another fairly straightforward one; WordleBot says it has an average score of 3.8, which doesn’t quite qualify it for super-easy status but which does at least suggest it’s on the simpler side of things.
The only complication is the letter K in the middle of the word, because K is uncommon as these things go, ranking only 20th. As regular readers will know, it’s actually found quite often at the end of a Wordle answer – but in the middle it’s a different matter, appearing a mere 12 times out of Wordle’s original 2,309 answers.
That aside, it’s plain sailing. The other four letters are all very common, and that led to some great results for many of the best Wordle starting words today. For instance, TRACE left only seven possible solutions, SAINT was at eight, LANCE and SLANT at 12. Best of all the top options, though, was LEANT – which left a mere two words to choose from.
I had 33 options, according to WordleBot, so STARE was not so lucky. But that didn’t matter, because my luck was about to change in a rather dramatic fashion (within reason; I didn’t win the lottery or something).
So what happened was that I compiled a list of possible answers. It didn’t have 33 on it, more like about a dozen: METAL, PETAL, FETAL, BLEAT, CLEAT, PLEAT, EATEN, CHEAT, ADEPT, CADET and TAKEN. So 11, to be precise. Why so few? Well, WordleBot also included a bunch of words ending in ED, but to the best of my knowledge Wordle doesn’t include past participles ending in ED. Or at least there haven’t been any so far, as far as I’m aware (please correct me if I’m wrong). Given that TAKEN is itself a past participle, it seems strange that Wordle omits the ED variant, but maybe that’s just a quirk of the game.
Anyway, for that reason, I discounted the likes of TAMED, MATED, HATED and DATED. I also left out AGENT, because I recalled that as a fairly recent past Wordle answer (game #847 in October). Finally, I also missed a few including ECLAT, FACET, VALET, LATEX and THETA.
Based on where letters are commonly used, I wanted the A in position #2 and the E in position #4. The T could go at the start or end. And I wanted to include a common consonant – ideally N or L. TAKEN ticked all of those boxes. Now, looking at the words I’d shortlisted, I probably should have played something else – WordleBot suggested PLEAT, and that does make sense. But (as you might have noticed) I’ve been cutting a few corners lately, mainly because my day job has been so busy (Wordle is a passion-project for me, rather than forming the majority of my duties as Editor in Chief of TechRadar).
So… I didn’t think too hard about it and played TAKEN. And remarkably, it was correct! A 1-in-33 guess, according to WordleBot. I’m not sure I’ve ever scored a 2/6 from a less promising position.
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 #895, Friday 1 December: TAKEN
- Wordle #894, Thursday 30 November: RESIN
- Wordle #893, Wednesday 29 November: SUSHI
- Wordle #892, Tuesday 28 November: SCOPE
- Wordle #891, Monday 27 November: TAWNY
- Wordle #890, Sunday 26 November: SOLID
- Wordle #889, Saturday 25 November: GUIDE
- Wordle #888, Friday 24 November: THROW
- 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
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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