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? TechRadar’s Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that game, and you can also take a look at our NYT Strands today and NYT Connections today pages for our verdict on two of the New York Times’ other brainteasers.
SPOILER WARNING: Today’s Wordle answer and hints are below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to see them.
Wordle hints (game #1334) – 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 #1334) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is R.
R is a surprisingly uncommon starting letter. Despite ranking third overall in Wordle, it’s merely the 11th most likely to begin an answer.
Wordle hints (game #1334) – 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 #1334) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is D.
D is a fairly common letter to end a Wordle answer: it’s the eighth most likely to be in that position in a solution.
Wordle hints (game #1334) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1334.
- Today’s Wordle answer is very fast.
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 #1334)
- NYT average score: 3.5
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- My start word performance: BLITZ (240 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (80)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1334) is… RAPID.
This is one of those days where you have to look beyond the absolute best Wordle starting words for an explanation as to why a game has a low score, and instead towards a few of the most popular openers.
And these are not the same thing. The nine most popular start words today, according to WordleBot, were ADIEU, AUDIO, STARE, RAISE, CRANE, ARISE, SLATE, TRAIN and IRATE. But only three of those – STARE, CRANE and SLATE – are among the ‘Bot’s top 20 best picks.
Okay, so TRAIN and RAISE are not too far outside it, and ARISE and IRATE still within the top 100, but I’m always surprised that more people don’t choose better options.
ADIEU and AUDIO are not even close to the top 100, however; they both languish way down the list. It’s a constant source of disappointment to me that so many people play them, despite their objective, factual, provable inferiority when it comes to solving Wordle. Vowels are the least important letters in the game when it comes to finding an answer, so why pack your start word with them? It makes no sense.
Then again, many things that people do make no sense to me. I shall have to remain forever upset at the world.
Today, annoyingly, ADIEU and AUDIO were good words to begin with. The former left only 15 answers, the latter eight. TRAIN was at seven and RAISE at six. With ARISE and IRATE both at 19, all of those popular-but-not-actually-the-best words put the others to shame; CRANE and STARE both left 80-odd, SLATE 200-plus.
RAPID’s average score of 3.5 – the same as yesterday’s SCORE – is therefore as much a measure of those start word performances as it is of the game’s innate easiness. I don’t think it’s particularly hard, but taken in isolation I’d say it’s a middling game, and indeed both myself and the ‘Bot scored fours.
I had a terrible start, with BLITZ leaving 240 words. No, if I was choosing my own start word I would not include a Z in it.
Still, I had a yellow I to work with and by adding the obvious common letters that remained I was able to create SIREN.
This was a “terrific choice” but not particularly lucky and still left 10 words, when I might have expected more like eight. But with a yellow R also now in the mix, it wasn’t too hard for me to come up with most of them: CHAIR, RADIO, RAPID, DROID, DRUID, RADII all made my shortlist. I missed CHOIR – a definite oversight – and IVORY, but doubt that CAPRI or FAKIR will be actual answers.
Fortunately, those missed words didn’t hurt me. I worked out that playing RADIO next would guarantee me a solve in four at worst, and maybe even a three, and as it turned out that would have been the case even if I’d have found all 10 of the options. RADIO wasn’t the solution, but it pointed the way to RAPID next guess and I scored a standard four.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1333)
In a different time zone where it’s still Tuesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1333, 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 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.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1333.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a musical composition or a numerical record of accomplishment.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1333)
- NYT average score: 3.5
- My score: 2
- WordleBot’s score: 2
- My start word performance: CRUDE (6 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (5)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1333) was… SCORE.
After the most difficult Wordle in weeks comes one of the easiest. That’s not just for me, either: SCORE has an average, er, score of 3.5 across the many thousands who have so far played it.
And of course it does; all five letters are ultra-common and many are in their logical places. That fact led to stellar results for many of the best Wordle starting words, which in turn will have played a big part in that average being so low. CRANE, WordleBot’s favorite, left only five answers, as did CRATE. TRACE and STARE were at seven.
My randomly chosen opener, CRUDE, was in the middle of those, leaving six. And amazingly, WordleBot and I both turned that start into a two.
There was luck involved, obviously, but it also made sense to play SCORE. I’d identified all six words quickly, coming up with SCORE, SCARE, OCHRE, FARCE, FORCE and SCREE. Playing any of the first three would guarantee a solve in three guesses at worst, so I was always going to choose one of that trio.
SCORE and SCARE seemed more likely than OCHRE, so it was just a question of which of those I went for. I’m not sure why I picked SCORE in the end, but I was delighted I did so when all five letters turned green. What a relief after Monday’s horror show.
Wordle answers: The past 50
I’ve been playing Wordle every day for more than three 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 #1333, Tuesday 11 February: SCORE
- Wordle #1332, Monday 10 February: GOODY
- Wordle #1331, Sunday 9 February: BONUS
- Wordle #1330, Saturday 8 February: STEEP
- Wordle #1329, Friday 7 February: SWATH
- Wordle #1328, Thursday 6 February: PUPIL
- Wordle #1327, Wednesday 5 February: PEDAL
- Wordle #1326, Tuesday 4 February: TOOTH
- Wordle #1325, Monday 3 February: REVUE
- Wordle #1324, Sunday 2 February: CHORE
- Wordle #1323, Saturday 1 February: RIVET
- Wordle #1322, Friday 31 January: TOAST
- Wordle #1321, Thursday 30 January: FALSE
- Wordle #1320, Wednesday 29 January: UDDER
- Wordle #1319, Tuesday 28 January: FEVER
- Wordle #1318, Monday 27 January: SHUNT
- Wordle #1317, Sunday 26 January: SUNNY
- Wordle #1316, Saturday 25 January: CRISP
- Wordle #1315, Friday 24 January: CREPE
- Wordle #1314, Thursday 23 January: UPPER
- Wordle #1313, Wedneday 22 January: REACH
- Wordle #1312, Tuesday 21 January: ICING
- Wordle #1311, Monday 20 January: SQUID
- Wordle #1310, Sunday 19 January: ROWER
- Wordle #1309, Saturday 18 January: SILLY
- Wordle #1308, Friday 17 January: PROSE
- Wordle #1307, Thursday 16 January: FLINT
- Wordle #1306, Wednesday 15 January: KNACK
- Wordle #1305, Tuesday 14 January: FANCY
- Wordle #1304, Monday 13 January: CLOAK
- Wordle #1303, Sunday 12 January: TOTAL
- Wordle #1302, Saturday 11 January: DINGY
- Wordle #1301, Friday 10 January: CRAWL
- Wordle #1300, Thursday 9 January: WAFER
- Wordle #1299, Wednesday 8 January: DRAFT
- Wordle #1298, Tuesday 7 January: ATLAS
- Wordle #1297, Monday 6 January: SPRIG
- Wordle #1296, Sunday 5 January: CYBER
- Wordle #1295, Saturday 4 January: RELAX
- Wordle #1294, Friday 3 January: CHEAP
- Wordle #1293, Thursday 2 January: CHOSE
- Wordle #1292, Wednesday 1 January: NERVE
- Wordle #1291, Tuesday 31 December: LEMUR
- Wordle #1290, Monday 30 December: STARE
- Wordle #1289, Sunday 29 December: MAMBO
- Wordle #1288, Saturday 28 December: DECRY
- Wordle #1287, Friday 27 December: GRAIN
- Wordle #1286, Thursday 26 December: AFFIX
- Wordle #1285, Wednesday 25 December: SHARE
- Wordle #1284, Tuesday 24 December: EAGLE
- Wordle #1283, Monday 23 December: SAUNA
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.
