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It's time for your guide to today's Wordle answer, featuring my commentary on the latest puzzle, plus a selection of hints designed to help you keep your streak going.
Don't think you need any clues for Wordle today? No problem, just skip to my daily column. But remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.
Want more word-based fun? My Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that game, and you can also take a look at my new NYT Strands today page for my verdict on the New York Times' latest brainteaser.
SPOILER WARNING: Today's Wordle answer and hints are below, so don't read on if you don't want to see them.
Your Wordle expert
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Marc McLaren
Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief and has been obsessed with Wordle for more than two years. 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 Wordle in every position. He's also played every Wordle ever and only lost once and yes, he takes it all too seriously.
Wordle hints (game #1074) - 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 #1074) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is M.
M is a middling letter when it comes to starting a word. It sits 10th in the rankings, with 107 occurrences in the 2,309 answers.
Wordle hints (game #1074) - 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.
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Wordle hints (game #1074) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is S.
S is really not a common ending letter at all - mainly because Wordle generally doesn't allow plurals. It's the 15th most likely letter to appear at the end of an answer.
Wordle hints (game #1074) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1074.
- Today's Wordle answer is a negative quantity.
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 #1074)
- NYT average score: 4.1
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 4
- Best start word performance*: SANER (2 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: SCOFF (204)
* From WordleBot's Top 20 start words
Today's Wordle answer (game #1074) is… MINUS.
WordleBot currently says MINUS has an average score of 4.1, but I suspect it may come down a little from there and settle at around 4.0 or even a little below that. After all, there's only one minor complication to it: the fact that the S is at the end.
S is the eighth most common letter in the game, occurring 668 times among Wordle's 2,309 original solutions. However, as my analysis of every Wordle answer shows, the overwhelming majority of those 668 appearances are at the start of an answer: 365 of them. What's more, a further 171 are in position #4, where it tends to precede an H or T. At the end? Well, it only turns up there 36 times in total.
Other than that, the letters are reasonably common, although the fact that there's no A, E, T, R, L or C is notable. That's also the main reason why not many of the most popular start words made a huge difference today. The most successful of WordleBot's top 20 was SANER – which was incredibly helpful, leaving only two answers. But SANER is not a particularly common opener, and neither are the likes of SAINT (which left six) or SNARE (seven). In contrast, people who started with STARE had 54 possible answers to sift through, while the SLATE crowd were left with 62.
My random opener was a lot worse than either of those, even. SCOFF gave me the S, but nothing more and left 204 possible solutions. Knowing what I do about where S is common, I immediately looked at options for ST or SH at the end and decided to play TRASH; this was sensible, I think, because if the H didn't turn green, the T might turn yellow instead.
As it happened, the S wasn't in that position, and neither H nor T changed color. I was still at a bit of a loss, then, although WordleBot told me afterwards that I had cut the options to 14.
I came up with a few of them at this stage: DUSKY, MUSKY and PESKY, MINUS and ISSUE, UNSEE and ENSUE. I decided to play an old trick I learned from WordleBot, and played ISSUE with its double-S, so as to confirm exactly where that letter went. In a way, it was wasteful because I was only playing four distinct letters rather than five, and so would potentially gain less info. But on the other hand, I would have two chances to see where the S went, and that was important at this stage to help me work out what the format was.
ISSUE was incredibly lucky. It didn't technically turn either S green, but on the other hand it confirmed that it had to be at the end, so in that sense it did exactly what I wanted. It also gave me a green U, and a yellow I – and in doing so, it ruled out all answers other than MINUS. I played that next for a WordleBot-matching 4/6.
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Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1073)
In a different time zone where it's still Monday? Don't worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1073, 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 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.
- 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 R.
R is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – it's actually the 4th most common there, behind E, Y and T.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1073.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is going downhill.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1073)
- NYT average score: 4.3
- My score: 3
- WordleBot's score: 4
- Best start word performance*: SLICE (4 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: SIEVE (7)
* From WordleBot's Top 20 start words
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1073) was… SKIER.
I don't beat WordleBot very often, and with good reason: it starts each game with CRANE, its choice as the best Wordle starting word, whereas I use a random opener. What's more, it has a computer brain made from silicon and capable of analyzing thousands of words in a fraction of a second, whereas mine is poor, flawed human meat and doesn't work as well when I'm tired and/or hungry.
However, I beat the 'bot yesterday, scoring a 3/6 to its 5/6, and have now repeated the trick today with another three, whereas it could only manage a four. Go me!
Not that there's any shame in a four today, because as WordleBot reports, the average score is 4.3, meaning it's a second difficult one in a row following the 4.6 for Sunday's BEVEL.
SKIER offers a different kind of challenge to BEVEL. There are no repeated letters here, but instead the problem is that ER ending, together with the fact that it contains a K.
As my analysis of every Wordle answer shows, K is the seventh least common letter in the game, but worse still it is actually quite common at the end of an answer. In position #2, where it is today, it only occurs 10 times in Wordle's 2,309 original solutions; even X is more likely to turn up there.
However, the ER aspect is probably the bigger cause of distress today. There are 141 of these in the original 2,309-strong word list, plus dozens more that didn't make the cut but which could be answers. And of course neither you nor I know which is which. It is far and away the most common ending in the game, with the next most common (LY) only occurring 56 times.
You'll have needed a good first guess, but may well not have got one. CRANE left 191 options – hence WordleBot's score – and while SLATE and STARE were better, at 37 and 17 respectively, they were far behind the result for my random opener SIEVE, which left only seven.
Or at least that's what the 'bot said; I only had three on my list: SEPIA, SERIF and SPIEL. I missed SKIER, obviously, but also three ED words in SKIED, SHIED and SPIED. Are these realistic solutions? Who knows – I'm a bit confused about which ED words are possible answers these days, but tend not to look for them anyway.
There was no particular reason to go with either of my three words, because each would have given me the answer in three as a worst-case scenario, assuming I hadn't missed any. I went with SERIF for no particular reason and got lucky – it wasn't right, but even though I had missed some answers, notably SKIER, it still narrowed it down to only that one word. I spotted my error fairly quickly and scored my fourth 3/6 in a row.
Wordle answers: The past 50
I've been playing Wordle every day for more than two years 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 #1073, Monday 27 May: SKIER
- Wordle #1072, Sunday 26 May: BEVEL
- Wordle #1071, Saturday 25 May: TITAN
- Wordle #1070, Friday 24 May: GLIDE
- Wordle #1069, Thursday 23 May: SWISH
- Wordle #1068, Wednesday 22 May: EXALT
- Wordle #1067, Tuesday 21 May: DINGO
- Wordle #1066, Monday 20 May: NICER
- Wordle #1065, Sunday 19 May: HITCH
- Wordle #1064, Saturday 18 May: BRINY
- Wordle #1063, Friday 17 May: TUTOR
- Wordle #1062, Thursday 16 May: STALL
- Wordle #1061, Wednesday 15 May: PINCH
- Wordle #1060, Tuesday 14 May: AMASS
- Wordle #1059, Monday 13 May: CUMIN
- Wordle #1058, Sunday 12 May: OUTER
- Wordle #1057, Saturday 11 May: TIDAL
- Wordle #1056, Friday 10 May: MEDIA
- Wordle #1055, Thursday 9 May: JERKY
- Wordle #1054, Wednesday 8 May: PIOUS
- Wordle #1053, Tuesday 7 May: MUSTY
- Wordle #1052, Monday 6 May: SHAVE
- Wordle #1051, Sunday 5 May: DECAL
- Wordle #1050, Saturday 4 May: VALUE
- Wordle #1049, Friday 3 May: EBONY
- Wordle #1048, Thursday 2 May: SLICE
- Wordle #1047, Wednesday 1 May: DIARY
- Wordle #1046, Tuesday 30 April: PROWL
- Wordle #1045, Monday 29 April: CRAFT
- Wordle #1044, Sunday 28 April: PRUNE
- Wordle #1043, Saturday 27 April: GLEAM
- Wordle #1042, Friday 26 April: VAPID
- Wordle #1041, Thursday 25 April: INTRO
- Wordle #1040, Wednesday 24 April: OVERT
- Wordle #1039, Tuesday 23 April: ROVER
- Wordle #1038, Monday 22 April: LASER
- Wordle #1037, Sunday 21 April: JOLLY
- Wordle #1036, Saturday 20 April: LUCID
- Wordle #1035, Friday 19 April: RAISE
- Wordle #1034, Thursday 18 April: FACET
- Wordle #1033, Wednesday 17 April: TITHE
- Wordle #1032, Tuesday 16 April: SHANK
- Wordle #1031, Monday 15 April: EQUIP
- Wordle #1030, Sunday 14 April: BLIMP
- Wordle #1029, Saturday 13 April: STEEL
- Wordle #1028, Friday 12 April: WHINY
- Wordle #1027, Thursday 11 April: LOUSE
- Wordle #1026, Wednesday 10 April: BROTH
- Wordle #1025, Tuesday 9 April: MERGE
- Wordle #1024, Monday 8 April: BREED
- Wordle #1023, Sunday 7 April: VOILA
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 2024.
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.
Marc McLaren
Global Editor in Chief
Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor in Chief on Tom’s Guide, where he oversaw all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He's also a former editor of the tech website Stuff and spent five years at the music magazine NME, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun. He’s based in London, and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and pretty much every other type of gadget you can think of. An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). He also enjoys live music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors the daily Wordle today page).
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