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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 #1936) - 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 #1936) - 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 #1936) - 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 #1936) - 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 #1936) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1936.
- Today's Wordle answer is to establish the truth or validity of something.
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 #1936)
- NYT average score: 4.2
- My score: 3
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 96
- My luck score: 55
- My start word performance: SANER (125 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (121)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1936) is… PROVE.
PROVE has one of Wordle's most common formats, and that is both a blessing and a curse.
First, the proof. Not only does it have the consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel thing that so many answers do, but it also has some of the most likely letters in three of those positions: -RO-E.
Letters |
No. of answers |
|---|---|
-RA-E |
20 |
-RI-E |
18 |
-RO-E |
16 |
-LA-E |
15 |
-AN-Y |
14 |
-OO-Y |
13 |
-US-Y |
13 |
-OU-H |
12 |
-IG-T |
11 |
-OU-D |
11 |
-HA-E |
11 |
There are 16 words that have the -RO-E format, then, but to make matters worse, -RA-E and -RI-E are the only two that are even more common, so if you didn't identify the correct middle letter early on, you may well have been choosing between lots of possible solutions.
That's the bad bit. The good bit is that R, O and E are very common, so many people will have identified them early on — for instance, in their start word.
However, there's another bad bit here: V is a far less likely letter, and won't have been played by many people until it was obvious that PROVE was a possibility. Oh, and there's another bad bit: PROBE, PROSE and PRONE are obvious alternatives, as are GROVE and DROVE.
We're in net negative territory here, then — it's clearly more difficult than it might initially look, and if you don't believe me just look at its average score of 4.2. That's actually higher than the score for yesterday's DIMLY, which had dropped to 4.1 by the end of the day.
Somehow, I scored a 3 — and beat the 'Bot while doing so. How? Well, I got lucky. SANER had left more than 100 options, and although DROIT did a decent job in reducing those to seven, I wouldn't have expected a solve on the next guess.
However, when I drew up my shortlist of PROVE, PROBE, GROVE, GROPE, BROKE and FROZE (I missed PROLE, which I'm not sure would really be an answer anyway), it was apparent that PROVE gave me the best chance.
Or rather, PROVE and PROBE gave me an equal chance; either might left one of two 50/50s, but was otherwise guaranteed to solve it in 4, and might even have give me a 3. For whatever reason I picked PROVE, and got lucky when all five letters turned green.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1935)
In a different time zone where it's still Tuesday? Don't worry — I can give you some clues for Wordle #1935, 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 D.
D is the ninth most common starting letter in the game, so maybe slightly less likely than you might expect.
- 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 Y.
Y is the second most common ending letter in the game, behind only E. In total, 364 Wordle answers end with a Y.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1935.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is hazily or faintly.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1935)
- NYT average score: 4.1
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 99
- My luck score: 36
- My start word performance: SANER (304 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (106)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1935) was… DIMLY.
I know of some people who play Wordle with more than one set word at the start. In fact, I know of some who play as many as three, reasoning that they will almost always score a 4 that way, because so many letters will have been ruled out.
I used a similar technique back when I used to regularly play Quordle: I would begin with STARE, then follow up with DOILY and PUNCH. By my fourth guess, I'd already have played all five standard vowels, plus Y, and the nine most common consonants. It was very, very rare that I lost.
I don't take quite that approach in Wordle myself, because I'd miss out on too many of those lovely 2s and 3s. However, I do have a two-word strategy that I change according to circumstances. If I get zero letters on the first guess, for instance — as happened today — I always play CLOUT next.
This often works well, because it uses four of the five vowels and the six most common consonants. And even if it doesn't work, it kind of does — because if CLOUT is also unsuccessful it usually means I'm looking for a Y-ending word.
To see why, you need only look at the most popular ending letters. In order, the top 10 are E, Y, T, R, L, H, N, D, K and A — and in these situations, by the time I've played SANER and CLOUT I'll have used all of those except for Y, H, D and K.
What's more, H only appears at the end with an S or T or C (all of which are in my first two words), and K only with L, N or S, generally. So, if SANER and CLOUT don't work, it is invariably a Y-ending answer.
And so it was today: by the third guess, I had 15 options, of which I found eight, all of which ended in LY: MILKY, FILLY, DILLY, BILLY, HILLY, WILLY, FILMY and DIMLY. I missed seven, including two more Y-words in LIPPY and IMPLY, plus LIVID, LIPID, VIGIL, LYMPH and IDYLL.
FILMY was not guaranteed to give me a 4, but it was about as close as I could get; the 'Bot preferred DIMLY, but gave them both a 99 skill score. Of course if I had gone with that I'd have scored an undeserved 3, but instead I needed one more guess to confirm the solution.
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 #1935, Tuesday 6 October: DIMLY
- Wordle #1934, Monday 5 October: MOCHA
- Wordle #1933, Sunday 4 October: SHACK
- Wordle #1932, Saturday 3 October: PEEVE
- Wordle #1931, Friday 2 October: USURY
- Wordle #1930, Thursday 1 October: RITZY
- Wordle #1929, Wednesday 30 September: RIVER
- Wordle #1928, Tuesday 29 September: SCUBA
- Wordle #1927, Monday 28 September: TRUNK
- Wordle #1926, Sunday 27 September: SLOOP
- Wordle #1925, Saturday 26 September: ELEGY
- Wordle #1924, Friday 25 September: COPSE
- Wordle #1923, Thursday 24 September: MESSY
- Wordle #1922, Wednesday 23 September: FORTH
- Wordle #1921, Tuesday 22 September: STOKE
- Wordle #1920, Monday 21 September: PAGER
- Wordle #1919, Sunday 20 September: SHONE
- 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
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.
