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Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief and has been obsessed with Wordle for more than four 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 and a guide to the best Wordle start words. He's also played every Wordle ever and only lost once and yes, he takes it all too seriously.
Wordle hints (game #1899) - 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 #1899) - 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 #1899) - 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 #1899) - 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 #1899) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1899.
- Today's Wordle answer is a small hill.
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 #1899)
- NYT average score: 4.6
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 5
- My skill score: 99
- My luck score: 43
- My start word performance: SANER (86 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (315)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1899) is… MOUND.
MOUND is part of a group that forms one of the toughest of all Wordle patterns, and that's reflected in its very high average score today of 4.6. For those of you keeping track, it's the most difficult since SHILL and PSHAW finished at 4.7 back in July.
The pattern in question is of course -OUND, a format which has eight genuine possibilities, namely: ROUND, POUND, HOUND, SOUND, BOUND, FOUND, WOUND and MOUND itself.
By my reckoning it's the second worst of all of these 'pillars of doom' Wordles, where you can replace one letter and make multiple words; the only worse one that I know of is -IGHT, which has nine possibles: WIGHT, RIGHT, TIGHT, LIGHT, FIGHT, SIGHT, MIGHT, NIGHT and EIGHT.
MOUND is actually the seventh of the eighth to appear: we've previously had POUND (game #49), ROUND (#90), FOUND (#282), SOUND (#605), HOUND (#668) and WOUND (#1576), which means BOUND is the last one standing. We could, of course, get a repeat before that appears; POUND and ROUND were answers well before most people started playing, so would seem like good candidates.
A knowledge of the most recent examples might have helped a little today — WOULD would definitely be too recent, SOUND and HOUND almost certainly too. But assuming you didn't look at a past Wordle answers list, your best approach will have been to narrow down the options using a word that ruled out as many as possible in one go.
Of course, to do that you'll first have needed to know what the format was. I pretty much reached that point after my second guess, POINT, which reduced the options to nine. The -OUND words were among them, but only five of them, because POUND, SOUND and ROUND were by now impossible.
The others on my list were DOWNY and LOONY, but I missed MOONY — which seems unlikely — and YOUNG; I have no idea how I didn't think of that one. It was the -OUND pattern I was focused on anyway, and my choice of WHOMP was designed to eliminate three of those in one go. The 'Bot preferred BALMY, but there wasn't much in it — both had a 99 skill score.
At this stage I got lucky. WHOMP might have left me a choice of BOUND, FOUND or YOUNG, the latter of which I still hadn't considered at all, but fortunately it instead gave me the yellow M and O that meant MOUND was the only answer. I ended up with a 4, then, which feels like a win on a day like today — and indeed, I did beat the 'Bot, which is always a bonus.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1898)
In a different time zone where it's still Sunday? Don't worry — I can give you some clues for Wordle #1898, 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 I.
I is only the 19th most common starting letter in Wordle, and just 34 of the original 2,309 answers begin with it.
- 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 L.
L is a really common letter to find at the end of a Wordle. There are 155 games that finish with an L, and it ranks as the fifth most likely letter there.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1898.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is useful information.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1898)
- NYT average score: 3.7
- My score: 3
- WordleBot's score: 2
- My skill score: 94
- My luck score: 80
- My start word performance: SANER (32 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (19)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1898) was… INTEL.
I smell something fishy about yesterday's Wordle. Specifically, I fear WordleBot may have cheated. The 'Bot had 19 options left after its first guess but somehow picked out INTEL as the correct answer and scored a 2. No fair!
Then again, INTEL would have been a very good choice of second guess anyway, given that it contains five very common letters, three of which were already yellow on the 'Bot's board. A similar story will have played out for lots of people today, which is why the average is a mere 3.7 — making it the easiest game since TRACE more than a week ago.
This is yet another NYT addition to the game, the fourth in a week. They're coming on alternate days at the moment, so don't be surprised if Tuesday's is also an extra word. Not that it necessarily matters — it's not like many people (any people?) use the original NYT list while they are playing, but it's worth noting all the same, because the NYT's additions are typically slightly strange in some way.
I don't know if INTEL qualifies in that regard; it may have started life as an abbreviation, but it's been around in this form since the 1960s and is far from an obscure word.
I notched another 3; I'm on a very good run at the moment, which probably says more about how easy several of the games have been lately than it does about my ability, but I'll take it all the same. I didn't have quite as much luck as the 'Bot did with my second guess, but COLIN — which I also used a couple of days ago — did succeed in cutting my 32 possibles down to a single option, so it wasn't far behind it.
All in all, a pretty straightforward Wordle for me and probably many others yesterday.
Wordle answers: The past 50
I've been playing Wordle every day for more than four 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 #1898, Sunday 30 August: INTEL
- Wordle #1897, Saturday 29 August: BLOOD
- Wordle #1896, Friday 28 August: TWEEN
- Wordle #1895, Thursday 27 August: UNCUT
- Wordle #1894, Wednesday 26 August: CAPON
- Wordle #1893, Tuesday 25 August: CLICK
- Wordle #1892, Monday 24 August: RUNNY
- Wordle #1891, Sunday 23 August: OLDEN
- Wordle #1890, Saturday 22 August: PRAWN
- Wordle #1889, Friday 21 August: TRACE
- Wordle #1888, Thursday 20 August: MURKY
- Wordle #1887, Wednesday 19 August: GRILL
- Wordle #1886, Tuesday 18 August: STRIP
- Wordle #1885, Monday 17 August: TRIBE
- Wordle #1884, Sunday 16 August: ASPIC
- Wordle #1883, Saturday 15 August: LOOSE
- Wordle #1882, Friday 14 August: GEODE
- Wordle #1881, Thursday 13 August: CRASH
- Wordle #1880, Wednesday 12 August: WIMPY
- Wordle #1879, Tuesday 11 August: FENCE
- Wordle #1878, Monday 10 August: SNIPE
- Wordle #1877, Sunday 9 August: CLUNK
- Wordle #1876, Saturday 8 August: PRIVY
- Wordle #1875, Friday 7 August: FEIGN
- Wordle #1874, Thursday 6 August: GRIPE
- Wordle #1873, Wednesday 5 August: POSIT
- Wordle #1872, Tuesday 4 August: MOTIF
- Wordle #1871, Monday 3 August: REPLY
- Wordle #1870, Sunday 2 August: PENAL
- Wordle #1869, Saturday 1 August: SLUSH
- Wordle #1868, Friday 31 July: PURSE
- Wordle #1867, Thursday 30 July: FLUME
- Wordle #1866, Wednesday 29 July: VALVE
- Wordle #1865, Tuesday 28 July: SONAR
- Wordle #1864, Monday 27 July: POSER
- Wordle #1863, Sunday 26 July: GRAPE
- Wordle #1862, Saturday 25 July: ALOHA
- Wordle #1861, Friday 24 July: PUTTY
- Wordle #1860, Thursday 23 July: ORBIT
- Wordle #1859, Wednesday 22 July: LORRY
- Wordle #1858, Tuesday 21 July: SHILL
- Wordle #1857, Monday 20 July: DIVER
- Wordle #1856, Sunday 19 July: CHURN
- Wordle #1855, Saturday 18 July: BOOTH
- Wordle #1854, Friday 17 July: LEGAL
- Wordle #1853, Thursday 16 July: BUTTE
- Wordle #1852, Wednesday 15 July: PSHAW
- Wordle #1851, Tuesday 14 July: STEAK
- Wordle #1850, Monday 13 July: STOUT
- Wordle #1849, Sunday 12 July: CLACK
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 in 2022 and is still going strong in 2026.
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' Games 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.
4a. Answers are never plural.
4b. …unless they are. There have been a couple of plural words that don't end in an S or ES, including FUNGI (game #439), ATRIA (#1478) and TEETH (#1551). But S and ES plurals are definitely outlawed.
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.
10a. All answers are drawn from Wordle's list of 2,309 solutions…
10b. …unless they are not. That's because the NYT has added in some of its own words which weren't in that list of 2,309 solutions. More will undoubtedly come over the next few years.
10c. Plus, the NYT has now started repeating answers that have already appeared in Wordle. We have no idea how often it will do this, so you'll need to be on your guard.
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 4a above), but Wordle will accept it as a guess.
