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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 #1896) - 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 #1896) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is T.
T is one of the most common starting letters in the game, beginning 149 of Wordle's 2,309 answers. That gives it a ranking of fourth in the alphabet, behind only S, C and B.
Wordle hints (game #1896) - 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 #1896) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is N.
N is a pretty common ending letter in Wordle: it's the seventh most likely in that position and features in 130 solutions.
Wordle hints (game #1896) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1896.
- Today's Wordle answer is a young person in a certain age range.
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.
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Today's Wordle answer (game #1896)
- NYT average score: 4.1
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 96
- My luck score: 51
- My start word performance: SANER (32 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (120)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1896) is… TWEEN.
It says a lot about the all-pervasive nature of modern advertising that we needed to invent a category to describe an age range that only spans two years: TWEEN, the term for a child aged 11 or 12. Okay, fair enough, they are not technically teens — so marketing types might feel like they shouldn't use that to describe them. And maybe they are slightly more mature than a nine or 10 year old, so child is wrong too… But really, should we also think of a word to describe those nine and 10 year olds? What about seven and eight — they are surely very different from a four year old, so why lump them all in together. Come on, guys, we have trashy plastic toys and slime and hideously expensive cuddly animals to sell!
All of which is a roundabout way of saying that TWEEN is not a real word, even if it is in the dictionary these days. (I say 'these days' — it was apparently first used in this context in 1946.) Alternatively, you could consider it a shortening of 'between', but that would be similarly stupid. It's only two syllables, there's really no need to contract it.
It is, as you might guess, another NYT addition to the Wordle list — the third in five days and sixth in a little over two weeks. I don't hate it; it's a little silly, but is used regularly enough and offers a genuine challenge thanks to its repeated Es and uncommon W.
It's being solved in an average of 4.1 guesses, which seems about right. WordleBot and I scored 4s, at any rate, and other than TRAIN — which left only two solutions — none of the popular openers were incredibly helpful.
SANER, my choice, was not too bad — it gave me a green E and yellow N, and left 32. I was a bit torn as to what to play next. I figured that the answer would end with an EN, which meant words such as TOKEN, WOKEN, WIDEN, COVEN, GIVEN and LIKEN — although I did have a few with a different pattern, such as UNFED, UNWED and INLET.
In the end, I went with COLIN — which is ridiculous, because it's a name, but apparently it's also a bird, so was accepted. COLIN didn't do anything beyond turn the N green, but by ruling out those other four letters it cut the pool to a trio of TWEEN, QUEEN and HYMEN.
I did think of all three, but decided the latter was a little unlikely to be an answer, so went with QUEEN, despite having a hunch that it had already appeared. As it turned out, I was right — it was an answer back in 2023. That's far enough back that I'm not sure I really remembered it, but obviously in hindsight I wish I'd played it.
Still, I corrected my mistake on the fourth guess, playing TWEEN for my average-beating result.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1895)
In a different time zone where it's still Thursday? Don't worry — I can give you some clues for Wordle #1895, 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 U.
U is not a particularly common starting letter in Wordle, with only 33 answers beginning with it. It ranks 20th in this regard, and is the least common vowel to start an answer.
- There were 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 T.
T is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – in fact only E and Y are more likely in that position.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1895.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is not edited.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1895)
- NYT average score: 3.8
- My score: 3
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 99
- My luck score: 65
- My start word performance: SANER (86 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (102)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1895) was… UNCUT.
My good run continued with another 3 on a word that has a lower average than I'd expect given that it contains a repeated U.
U is really not a letter you'd expect to appear more than once in a Wordle — there are only 10 examples across the game's 2,309 original solutions. UNCUT is the sixth to turn up so far, although one of those, UVULA (remember that one?) was a non-original word, so there are at least five still to come, with the possibility of repeats and more NYT additions to bulk that up.
They've all had pretty different formats so far, too: UNDUE (game #528) was the only other UN--- word, with USURP (#466), QUEUE (#883) and FUGUE (#1,604) all being quite distinct.
The fact that the average is as low as 3.8 is therefore something of a surprise, but on the other hand N, C and T are all ultra-common — and commonly played — and vowels are always easier to find than consonants anyway.
I certainly didn't have any trouble. SANER had left 86 options, but POINT gave me a green T, and though the N was still yellow there was now only one possible answer. That was UNCUT, and it gave me a fourth 3 in seven days, and with a 2 in there too. I very much doubt it will last.
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 #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
- Wordle #1848, Saturday 11 July: AVIAN
- Wordle #1847, Friday 10 July: CANAL
- Wordle #1846, Thursday 9 July: AMEND
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.
