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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.
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.
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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 #1779) - clue #1 - Vowels
How many vowels does today's Wordle have?
• Wordle today has a vowel in one place*.
* 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 #1779) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is P.
P is a very common first letter among Wordle answers. It's the fifth most common in the alphabet and begins 141 solutions in total.
Wordle hints (game #1779) - clue #3 - repeated letters
Does today's Wordle have any repeated letters?
• There are 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 #1779) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is Y.
Y is the second most common ending letter in the game, behind only E. In total, 364 Wordle answers end with a Y.
Wordle hints (game #1779) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1779.
- Today's Wordle answer is swollen.
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 #1779)
- NYT average score: 4.4
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 92
- My luck score: 29
- My start word performance: SANER (304 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (315)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1779) is… PUFFY.
You're generally never more than a couple of days away from a repeated letter in Wordle, and after a brief pause for PLUME and BRING, we have the double-F packing PUFFY.
As you might expect, it's playing well towards the difficult side of things: it has an average score of 4.4, the same as EERIE last week and a tiny bit below the very tricky CROCK on Thursday.
On the plus side, there's only one word that I can think of that differs by just one letter, and that's HUFFY — which is on the borders of being an unlikely answer and which very few people played.
On the minus side… well, there are several words that differ by just one repeated letter. PUPPY, for instance, and PULLY and PUTTY and possibly PUNNY. And there are lots more that have a similar format of consonant-U-repeated-letter-Y: FUNNY and BUNNY and BUGGY and FUZZY and so on. Oh, and there's also PUNKY and PUDGY for good measure, too.
What does this all add up to? A difficult game, but one that I managed to score a four on, so I'm happy enough.
Admittedly, I had a huge dollop of luck at the end of the game. Not at the start, though — SANER was pretty unlucky, as were most openers today. That left me with 304 options, but CLOUT helpfully gave me a yellow U and got my game underway.
I now had 25 possible answers, and though BUDGE was not among them — the E was already ruled out — I decided it was the best word to narrow down the shortlist. WordleBot did not agree, giving me only 77 for skill, and rightly so — it left eight words.
Those eight words were PUFFY, PUPPY, FUZZY, MUMMY, YUMMY, JUMPY, HUMPH and HUFFY, and I thought of all bar the final two. PUFFY was actually the best word to play next, because at worst it would leave me a 50/50 and it might have been correct — so I went with that.
And lo and behold, fortune smiled upon me and it turned out to be the answer. I'm not sure I deserved a four today, but I'll take it.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1778)
In a different time zone where it's still Saturday? Don't worry — I can give you some clues for Wordle #1778, too.
- Wordle yesterday had a vowel in one place*
* 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 B.
B is a very, very common starting letter in Wordle. In fact, it's the third most common overall, behind only S and 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 G.
G is not a common letter to end a Wordle answer – in fact only 41 of Wordle's 2,309 games finish with one.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1778.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is to carry, convey or cause something to come with or to you.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1778)
- NYT average score: 3.8
- My score: 3
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 93
- My luck score: 68
- My start word performance: SANER (45 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (315)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1778) was… BRING.
How many of you were playing Wordle back in November 2021? I suspect very few, potentially even none. I first tried it in late December that same year, and wrote about in early January 2022, just as it was starting to take off; in November, the audience was still tiny.
I mention this because this answer is another repeat, but most likely not one people will recall. BRING first appeared on Tuesday, 30 November 2021 — game #164 — so unless you checked a past Wordle answers list, you'll likely have been oblivious to its returnee status.
That's the only really notable thing about it. It contains three very common letters, two that are middling, doesn't have any repeated letters, isn't an obscure word and is fairly standard in difficulty terms (3.8).
I notched a three, but it owed a lot to luck. For starters, SANER cut the shortlist down to 45 right away by uncovering yellow letters N and R. And then my second guess, GRIND, turned the middle three green and added a yellow G into the mix.
That left me with — you guessed it — another 50/50. I'm on a roll on this front lately, and, faced with a choice between BRING and WRING, I correctly picked the former option for my three.
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 #1778, Saturday 2 May: BRING
- Wordle #1777, Friday 1 May: PLUME
- Wordle #1776, Thursday 30 April: CROCK
- Wordle #1775, Wednesday 29 April: RURAL
- Wordle #1774, Tuesday 28 April: QUACK
- Wordle #1773, Monday 27 April: EERIE
- Wordle #1772, Sunday 26 April: GLOSS
- Wordle #1771, Saturday 25 April: WOMEN
- Wordle #1770, Friday 24 April: DRUNK
- Wordle #1769, Thursday 23 April: TWEET
- Wordle #1768, Wednesday 22 April: SNORE
- Wordle #1767, Tuesday 21 April: CLUMP
- Wordle #1766, Monday 20 April: WEAVE
- Wordle #1765, Sunday 19 April: STAND
- Wordle #1764, Saturday 18 April: TOADY
- Wordle #1763, Friday 17 April: BELLE
- Wordle #1762, Thursday 16 April: CUBIT
- Wordle #1761, Wednesday 15 April: BEGUN
- Wordle #1760, Tuesday 14 April: CYCLE
- Wordle #1759, Monday 13 April: ELFIN
- Wordle #1758, Sunday 12 April: ALLEY
- Wordle #1757, Saturday 11 April: PRUDE
- Wordle #1756, Friday 10 April: CAROM
- Wordle #1755, Thursday 9 April: LADEN
- Wordle #1754, Wednesday 8 April: INLET
- Wordle #1753, Tuesday 7 April: DENSE
- Wordle #1752, Monday 6 April: SWORN
- Wordle #1751, Sunday 5 April: ENVOY
- Wordle #1750, Saturday 4 April: SANDY
- Wordle #1749, Friday 3 April: SINGE
- Wordle #1748, Thursday 2 April: SOBER
- Wordle #1747, Wednesday 1 April: FIZZY
- Wordle #1746, Tuesday 31 March: SWAMP
- Wordle #1745, Monday 30 March: COMET
- Wordle #1744, Sunday 29 March: CHUMP
- Wordle #1743, Saturday 28 March: AFOOT
- Wordle #1742, Friday 27 March: IVORY
- Wordle #1741, Thursday 26 March: BEFIT
- Wordle #1740, Wednesday 25 March: WISER
- Wordle #1739, Tuesday 24 March: BROOD
- Wordle #1738, Monday 23 March: SERIF
- Wordle #1737, Sunday 22 March: BASIL
- Wordle #1736, Saturday 21 March: SLICK
- Wordle #1735, Friday 20 March: OASIS
- Wordle #1734, Thursday 19 March: REHAB
- Wordle #1733, Wednesday 18 March: AMPLY
- Wordle #1732, Tuesday 17 March: CLASP
- Wordle #1731, Monday 16 March: DRAMA
- Wordle #1730, Sunday 15 March: GRADE
- Wordle #1729, Saturday 14 March: ANKLE
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.
