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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 #1919) - 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 #1919) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is 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.
Wordle hints (game #1919) - 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 #1919) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is 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.
Wordle hints (game #1919) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1919.
- Today's Wordle answer has emitted rays of light.
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 #1919)
- NYT average score: 3.7
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 88
- My luck score: 50
- My start word performance: SANER (16 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (36)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1919) is… SHONE.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that S---E is the most common first-and-last-letter combination in the game. After all, S is by far the most common starting letter, and E the most common at the end — so of course that combo would be incredibly likely too.
There are in fact 74 of these words among Wordle's 2,309 original solutions, which is 32 more than the next highest in the list, S---Y; so, there are almost twice as many of them.
This is both a good and bad thing. The fact that S and E are so common in those positions is why SLATE and STARE are such great starting words. However, the fact that there are so many S---E words is why narrowing them down can sometimes be a little tricky.
It doesn't appear that was the case today, because the average score for SHONE is 3.7. That's probably because one of the two other consonants, N, is itself a common one — something like SHOVE or SMOKE would present a slightly harder challenge.
That said, I still scored a 4. WordleBot berated me for my second guess, SNIDE, which only cut down my shortlist from 16 to 4. It was probably right about that, in that I should really have played a narrowing-down word at that stage, but I was giddy from lots of recent success, so chanced my arm in an attempt to score a 2, rather than giving myself better odds for a 3.
My next task was to choose between STONE, SHONE, SCONE and SCENE, and once again I took a slight risk, playing STONE even though there was a chance I might leave myself a 50/50.
That scenario duly played out, with SHONE and SCONE both still available to me on the fourth guess. Fortunately, I recalled that SCONE had been an answer, so was able to avoid it and score my 4.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1918)
In a different time zone where it's still Saturday? Don't worry — I can give you some clues for Wordle #1918, 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 W.
W is a fairly average letter when it comes to starting an answer. There are 82 solutions that begin with a W, with means that it ranks 13th – so right in the middle of the alphabet.
- 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 N.
N is a pretty common ending letter in Wordle: it's the seventh most likely in that position and features in 130 solutions.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1918.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is to stop (someone) sleeping.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1918)
- NYT average score: 4.4
- My score: 3
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 80
- My luck score: 71
- My start word performance: SANER (11 remaining answer)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (140)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1918) was… WAKEN.
This one is a bit of a head-scratcher for me. Not in terms of how I did — I scored another 3, albeit with a fair bit of luck. No, I'm puzzled by why it is apparently proving so difficult for the wider Wordle-playing public.
WAKEN has an average score of 4.4, which makes it the most difficult game since JOIST more than two weeks ago. It's harder than DRYLY and THETA and NIFTY and other objectively* tougher words, and that really makes no sense.
What's difficult about it? Well, W is not a common letter, and neither is K. But they are not rare in the sense that the J in JOIST is. There are some other similarly spelled words, such as TAKEN and NAKED and WAXEN, and maybe the likes of HAVEN and MAVEN too, but it's not like it's an -OUND word.
Sure, I thought it might prove a little tough to solve, and maybe its average would be 4.0 or 4.1. But 4.4? That's super high.
Okay, so that score may change over time; maybe it will drop down to around 4.0 by the end of the day. But unless it does, I will remain baffled. Feel free to tell me in the comments why it troubled you, if it did.
As far as my game went, I got lucky with my first word, SANER, which left only 11 options, but far less so with my second, HAVEN, which removed fewer than half of those and still left six.
WordleBot was a bit confused about my use of HAVEN, saying it was a "wonderful choice" but only awarding me 80 for skill there. Either way, it was correct in saying that it was unlucky, and I still had a bit of work to do on my third guess.
I knew what four of the six words were: EATEN, TAKEN, WAXEN and WAKEN, but I missed OAKEN and LADEN. That could have come back to haunt me, because next I went with WAKEN, reasoning that it would guarantee me a 4 at worst.
In reality, it could have left me one of two 50/50s and I might have ended up with a 5 today. On a more normal day, it would have been a 4. Well, today was instead a lucky day — so it was another 3.
*Okay, not objectively, but you get the point
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 #1918, Saturday 19 September: WAKEN
- Wordle #1917, Friday 18 September: SNOWY
- Wordle #1916, Thursday 17 September: THETA
- Wordle #1915, Wednesday 16 September: WISPY
- Wordle #1914, Tuesday 15 September: DEALT
- Wordle #1913, Monday 14 September: RINSE
- Wordle #1912, Sunday 13 September: FOCUS
- Wordle #1911, Saturday 12 September: NIFTY
- Wordle #1910, Friday 11 September: ASTER
- Wordle #1909, Thursday 10 September: DRYLY
- Wordle #1908, Wednesday 9 September: BURST
- Wordle #1907, Tuesday 8 September: LIVEN
- Wordle #1906, Monday 7 September: BLIND
- Wordle #1905, Sunday 6 September: BEIGE
- Wordle #1904, Saturday 5 September: SOUPY
- Wordle #1903, Friday 4 September: WAGER
- Wordle #1902, Thursday 3 September: JOIST
- Wordle #1901, Wednesday 2 September: RULER
- Wordle #1900, Tuesday 1 September: REMIX
- Wordle #1899, Monday 31 August: MOUND
- 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
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.
