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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.
Don't think you need any clues for Wordle today? No problem, just skip to my daily column. But remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.
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.
SPOILER WARNING: Today's Wordle answer and hints are below, so don't read on if you don't want to see them.
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 #1807) - clue #1 - Vowels
How many vowels does today's Wordle have?
• Wordle today has vowels in three 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 #1807) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is E.
We don't get many Wordle answers that start with an E – though it's the most common letter in the game, it's only the 14th most likely to begin a solution.
Wordle hints (game #1807) - 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 #1807) - 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 #1807) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1807.
- Today's Wordle answer is a type of musical composition.
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 #1807)
- NYT average score: 3.9
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 97
- My luck score: 39
- My start word performance: SANER (182 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (23)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1807) is… ETUDE.
I'm a little surprised to see that ETUDE only has an average score of 3.9, given the potential difficulty of the word. It has a repeated E, for starters, although that alone is not enough to make it truly tricky. No, I'd say the bigger issue is that ETUDE is not really a common word.
Or is it? Maybe this is simply an example of me not knowing about a particular subject, in this case music. I love listening to music (and was a music journalist for several years), but have never learned to play an instrument, so was not familiar with ETUDE as a term.
Or rather, I wasn't familiar with what it meant; I did already know that the word existed, because a) it's appeared as an answer in Quordle and b) I used it as a start word once, back when I was playing random words given to me by a word generator. But until today, I didn't know that it was a type of musical composition typically intended for practice.
I also didn't know until today that it should really have an accent over the first E to make étude; then again, it's a capital, so that doesn't really apply — but it might have put a few people off playing it today.
Set against the potential complications are the fact that ETUDE is made up of common letters, thus making it easier in general, and that anyone playing STARE as their opening guess will have had only two potential solutions. That latter point may well explain the average of 3.9; without it, I expect 4.1 or 4.2 is more realistic.
It was a four for me today, and given that I didn't even consider ETUDE until it was the only solution remaining, that's as good as I could have expected. Instead, I thought that QUITE was the only word left to me on the third guess, whereas in reality I had it, ETUDE and BUTTE.
QUITE was not right, but it left ETUDE as the only answer — which is just as well, as I'd never have found it otherwise!
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1806)
In a different time zone where it's still Saturday? Don't worry — I can give you some clues for Wordle #1806, 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 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.
- 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 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.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1806.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is a facial expression.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1806)
- NYT average score: 3.4
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 2
- My skill score: 99
- My luck score: 45
- My start word performance: SANER (44 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (3)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1806) was… SMILE.
Are you smiling? You might well be if your start word was SLATE, because you'll only have had three possible solutions and a very good chance of scoring a two. You'll also have been happy if for some random reason you decided to begin with the answer to game #830 — because then you'll have scored a one.
Yes, SMILE is a repeated answer, which should surprise nobody who pays attention to these matters (i.e. me), because it arrived right on cue. There have been nine games since the last one, and there were also nine before that, and then 10 the one before that. Mark your diaries now for Monday, 8 June or Tuesday, 9 June…
Expected though it was, I am surprised that it's so recent; game #830 was in September 2023, long after most people began playing Wordle, so it's probably a word that many have tackled before. In my case, I'd scored a three — helped by my start word back then of STARE.
SMILE has a very low average score of 3.4 (just as it did last time), another fact that should come as no surprise given a) the performance for SLATE and b) the fact that S and E are common in many start words.
They're both in my SANER too, of course, although my start was not quite as special: I still had 44 answers to whittle down.
PILOT did a decent job of that and cut the shortlist to a quartet of SLIME, SLICE, SLIDE and SMILE. I decided to risk guessing one of the four, even though it might have left me a 50/50, and was both lucky and unlucky: SLICE was not the solution, but it left SMILE as the only option and therefore guaranteed my four anyway.
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 #1806, Saturday 30 May: SMILE
- Wordle #1805, Friday 29 May: CLANG
- Wordle #1804, Thursday 28 May: DIVOT
- Wordle #1803, Wednesday 27 May: STUFF
- Wordle #1802, Tuesday 26 May: COUCH
- Wordle #1801, Monday 25 May: VISIT
- Wordle #1800, Sunday 24 May: NIECE
- Wordle #1799, Saturday 23 May: CHUCK
- Wordle #1798, Friday 22 May: VOCAL
- Wordle #1797, Thursday 21 May: AGREE
- Wordle #1796, Wednesday 20 May: WRECK
- Wordle #1795, Tuesday 19 May: DUSTY
- Wordle #1794, Monday 18 May: LOATH
- Wordle #1793, Sunday 17 May: BYLAW
- Wordle #1792, Saturday 16 May: MOVER
- Wordle #1791, Friday 15 May: CREED
- Wordle #1790, Thursday 14 May: WAVER
- Wordle #1789, Wednesday 13 May: DOWDY
- Wordle #1788, Tuesday 12 May: CLOCK
- Wordle #1787, Monday 11 May: NEWLY
- Wordle #1786, Sunday 10 May: PARKA
- Wordle #1785, Saturday 9 May: SATIN
- Wordle #1784, Friday 8 May: UMBRA
- Wordle #1783, Thursday 7 May: BUDGE
- Wordle #1782, Wednesday 6 May: LIKEN
- Wordle #1781, Tuesday 5 May: LATCH
- Wordle #1780, Monday 4 May: RISER
- Wordle #1779, Sunday 3 May: PUFFY
- 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
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.
