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Cracking the daily Wordle takes a bit of flexibility and a decent feel for the English language, but it's far from impossible once you know what to look for. Here are a few tips that tend to help, whether it's your first week playing or your five hundredth puzzle.
● Start with common vowels. Opening with a word that uses A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y gives you the best shot at hitting a letter in the hidden word right away.
● Pay attention to word patterns. If a guess turns up green letters in certain spots, think about other words that share that same shape instead of starting from scratch.
● Use elimination to your advantage. A guess with no green or yellow tiles at all still tells you something valuable: cross every one of those letters off your list.
● Keep letter frequency in mind. E, A, T, O, and I show up constantly. Words often start with T, O, A, or D, and often end in E, S, T, or D.
● Don't fixate on one theory too early. You've got six guesses, so use the first two or three to test different letters rather than chasing a single hunch.
● Keep track as you go. A quick mental note of which letters are out and how your tiles have landed makes it much easier to avoid repeating a mistake.
● Play often. The more Wordle you solve, the faster you'll start recognizing patterns without even thinking about it.
Some days the word practically guesses itself. Other days it feels like nobody has used it in a sentence since the 1800s. To give you a sense of what you're up against, we rate every day's Wordle on a simple scale.
Easy peasy means today's word should come to you in just a couple of guesses. Fairly easy still means it's a word you know, though it might take a few more tries to land on it. Medium difficulty means it isn't a rare word, but expect to use most of your six guesses to get there. Very difficult means today's answer probably isn't part of your everyday vocabulary, so don't be too hard on yourself if you don't get it.
If you're after a full history of past Wordle answers, whether to settle a debate about whether a word has already shown up or just out of curiosity, we keep a running archive right here, sorted from the most recent puzzle back to the very first one ever played.
You get six tries to guess a five-letter word. Every guess must be a real English word. A green tile means the letter is correct and in the right position. A yellow tile means the letter is in the word but in the wrong position. A gray tile means the letter is not in the word at all.
Today's Wordle answer is revealed further up this page. We update it daily along with fresh hints, and you can also find yesterday's answer and a full historical archive here.
The New York Times acquired Wordle from its creator, Josh Wardle, in 2022, and has published and maintained it ever since. Several unofficial spinoff word games inspired by Wordle also exist, though they are not affiliated with the New York Times.
We rate each day's answer as Easy, Fairly Easy, Medium, or Very Difficult, based on how common the word is and how familiar its letter pattern tends to be for most English speakers.
Yes. Further down this page you will find every past Wordle answer organized by year, starting from the very first puzzle in 2021 through today.
Yes. Use the hints section above, which reveals clues gradually without spoiling the word. If you want to solve using letters you already know, our Wordle Solver tool generates matching words instead of giving you today's specific answer directly.