Today’s Wordle is a pretty standard one, with an average score of 4 and nothing really remarkable about it. With a bit of luck – or some Wordle clues – you might get a 3/6 today, but it could easily be a 5/6 if you’re not paying attention.
I’m a Wordle addict who’s been playing since December 2021, so I can definitely help you solve Wordle today and improve your game for tomorrow. Read on for my Wordle clues and hints to game #621 and bookmark this page so you can easily return tomorrow.
Oh, and if you also play Quordle then my Quordle today page contains clues and answers for that too.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about Wordle today and yesterday are below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
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 streak recently reached the 400 mark and he’ll be inconsolable if he loses it. Yes, he takes it all too seriously.
Wordle clues (game #621) – hint #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has three vowels*.
* 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 clues (game #621) – hint #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 clues (game #621) – hint #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 clues (game #621) – hint #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 clues (game #621) – hint #5 – last chance
Still looking for Wordle clues today? Don’t worry, I’ll give you one more for game #621.
- Today’s Wordle is overhead.
If you just want to know the answer at this stage you can scroll down to see it, 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 the solution then DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER BECAUSE THE ANSWER IS DIRECTLY BELOW. So don’t say you weren’t warned!
Wordle today (game #621) – the answer
The answer to today’s Wordle, game #621, is… ABOVE.
This is as average as they come. WordleBot says people are solving it in 4 guesses, I solved it in 4 guesses, WordleBot itself solved it in 4 guesses… and I bet plenty of you solved it in 4 guesses, too!
As a word, it’s a very common one – I’m sure most of us use ABOVE more often than we do MOOSE or POLKA, for instance. So that may have made guessing it easier. But on the flipside, some of the letters are slightly less common, and there are a couple of similarly spelled alternatives, so that will have increased the average and prevented it being a doddle.
You get three vowels and two consonants, with the O and E in very common places; the A slightly less so. You get a B, which is a common starting letter but not so common elsewhere. In fact, ABOVE is one of only 16 Wordle answers in which a B is in position #2. And you get a V, which is less common than B overall, but much more common in its position here. So, it’s a real mixed bag, and one where a 4/6 feels like a fair score.
None of the best Wordle starting words were all that useful today. WordleBot’s favorite, SLATE, left 37 possible answers, while the likes of CRANE (57) and TRACE (52) were slightly less successful. My own choice, STARE, left 46.
I decided not to go for a 2/6 – the odds were against me today – and instead played ALIGN. This was also one of WordleBot’s top choices, but today it wasn’t all that lucky. Yes, it reduced my possible options from 46 to just four, but against that those four were all equally likely: ABOVE, AWOKE, ADOBE, ABODE.
Given that three of those four contained a B, and two contained a D, my third guess was an easy one – it had to be ABODE or ADOBE. Either would guarantee a solve in 4/6, with a 25% chance of a 3/6. I went for ABODE, WordleBot went for ADOBE, neither was right, but we both found ABOVE on the next go. All pretty straightforward.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Wordle yesterday (game #620) – clues
In a different time zone where it’s still Wednesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #620, too.
- Wordle yesterday had two different vowels.
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was M.
- There was one repeated letter in yesterday’s Wordle.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was E.
- Yesterday’s Wordle is an animal.
Wordle yesterday (game #620) – the answer
The answer to yesterday’s Wordle, game #620, was… MOOSE.
It feels like an age since we’ve had an easy Wordle, and in relative terms it is. Only one puzzle in the past nine days has dipped below an average score of 4, according to WordleBot, and that was SYRUP, hardly a cakewalk itself.
Today’s is much harder still: MOOSE is currently being solved in an average of 4.4 guesses, which places it as a difficult one even among recent games.
The double-O is the biggest complication. On the one hand it’s a relatively common occurrence – 58 games have an OO in them, making it the second most likely letter to be doubled-up in this way. But at the same time, 58 games out of 2,309 answers is still only 2.5%. Or, to put it another way, you’d only expect to get one every 40 games or so. As it happens, we’ve not had one since FLOOR in October 2022, about 140 games ago, so we were well overdue.
Some of the best Wordle starting words were helpful today, but not many. SLATE, WordleBot’s favorite, left 31 possible answers and my own pick, STARE, resulted in just 24. But the likes of CRANE (126), SLANT (108) and TRACE (127) were all much higher.
I didn’t find all 24 options, but then I didn’t try; I just rattled off a list of about a dozen or so in order to guide me towards a good second guess. Most of the words I came up with featured an ending of —SE, with either an O or I before that. NOISE therefore seemed like a good guess.
WordleBot didn’t agree much, awarding me just 75 for skill and stating that CLOUD would have been better. That’s fair enough – NOISE left me with 10 possible solutions, but CLOUD would have reduced that to just four. But that said, CLOUD couldn’t have been an answer, whereas NOISE could.
Either way, I still had work to do. I correctly identified seven of the 10 options: MOOSE, LOOSE, MOUSE, LOUSE, DOUSE, HOUSE and POSSE. I missed COPSE and DOWSE, and dismissed GOOSE as it had been an answer before (game #357, June 2022).
At this point I was a little worried that I might run out of options without some luck, so decided to narrow things down with GHOUL. This would confirm whether it was an OUSE or OOSE word, as well as helping me choose between the likes of HOUSE and LOUSE. That did the trick: with the second O turning green, but the L staying gray, I knew it had to be MOOSE and solved today’s Wordle in 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 #620, Wednesday 1 March: MOOSE
- Wordle #619, Tuesday 28 February: POLKA
- Wordle #618, Monday 27 February: WORSE
- Wordle #617, Sunday 26 February: SYRUP
- Wordle #616, Saturday 25 February: FIFTY
- Wordle #615, Friday 24 February: ARBOR
- Wordle #614, Thursday 23 February: VAGUE
- Wordle #613, Wednesday 22 February: RIPER
- Wordle #612, Tuesday 21 February: RUDDY
- Wordle #611, Monday 20 February: SWEAT
- Wordle #610, Sunday 19 February: KIOSK
- Wordle #609, Saturday 18 February: AVAIL
- Wordle #608, Friday 17 February: CACHE
- Wordle #607, Thursday 16 February: MAGIC
- Wordle #606, Wednesday 15 February: SALSA
- Wordle #605, Tuesday 14 February: SOUND
- Wordle #604, Monday 13 February: USAGE
- Wordle #603, Sunday 12 February: GIANT
- Wordle #602, Saturday 11 February: DEBUG
- Wordle #601, Friday 10 February: HEADY
- Wordle #600, Thursday 9 February: STAGE
- Wordle #599, Wednesday 8 February: FLAIL
- Wordle #598, Tuesday 7 February: APPLE
- Wordle #597, Monday 6 February: NINTH
- Wordle #596, Sunday 5 February: DANCE
- Wordle #595, Saturday 4 February: UNLIT
- Wordle #594, Friday 3 February: TASTY
- Wordle #593, Thursday 2 February: SHIRK
- Wordle #592, Wednesday 1 February: SCOLD
- Wordle #591, Tuesday 31 January: CROSS
- Wordle #590, Monday 30 January: CRAVE
- Wordle #589, Sunday 29 January: FISHY
- Wordle #588, Saturday 28 January: FLIRT
- Wordle #587, Friday 27 January: WORRY
- Wordle #586, Thursday 26 January: BEEFY
- Wordle #585, Wednesday 25 January: MAIZE
- Wordle #584, Tuesday 24 January: COUNT
- Wordle #583, Monday 23 January: ELUDE
- Wordle #582, Sunday 22 January: MATEY
- Wordle #581, Saturday 21 January: BLURB
- Wordle #580, Friday 20 January: ALTER
- Wordle #579, Thursday 19 January: MUCKY
- Wordle #578, Wednesday 18 January: CHARD
- Wordle #577, Tuesday 17 January: ADOPT
- Wordle #576, Monday 16 January: FROCK
- Wordle #575, Sunday 15 January: SPIRE
- Wordle #574, Saturday 14 January: KOALA
- Wordle #573, Friday 13 January: HUMAN
- Wordle #572, Thursday 12 January: LEAPT
- Wordle #571, Wednesday 11 January: SEDAN
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 (opens in new tab) or the New York Times’ Crossword app (iOS (opens in new tab) / Android (opens in new tab)), 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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