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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.
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 #1714) - 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 #1714) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is D.
D is the ninth most common starting letter in the game, so maybe slightly less likely than you might expect.
Wordle hints (game #1714) - 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 #1714) - 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 #1714) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1714.
- Today's Wordle answer is struggling to stay balanced.
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 #1714)
- NYT average score: 4.8
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 99
- My luck score: 33
- 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 #1714) is… DIZZY.
Oof! Today's puzzle is almost as tough as Wordle gets, thanks to a quadruple whammy of repeated letter, uncommon letter, repeated uncommon letter and a couple of very similar alternative words to contend with.
It's the second most difficult game of the year so far, with an average score of 4.8. Only WAXEN (#1675) beat it, and that only by a whisker (4.9). It's in the top 50 most difficult games of all time — and given that we've now had more than 1,700 of them, that's no mean feat.
The Z — or rather, the Zs — are the obvious problem here. There are only 40 Zs across the 2,309 original solutions, and 10 of those come in repeated form, meaning there are actually only 35 games in which they appear. That makes them slightly less likely to appear in a single game than X, which appears 37 times but never in a repeat. Only Q and J are less likely to appear in a game, then.
Adding to the difficulty is the fact that FIZZY and TIZZY may well have occurred to people too. If you have a keen memory, or checked a past Wordle answers list, you'll know that TIZZY has already appeared; game #1493, with an average score of 4.9. FIZZY, however, has not yet turned up. You have been warned. DIPPY might also have tempted a few people or, depending on whether you'd already ruled out more common letters, DIARY or DIRTY or DINGY or DIMLY or a few others.
With all that in mind, I'm delighted to have scored a four today. In fact, given that my first two guesses — SANER and CLOUT — gave me no yellow or green letters, I'm amazed that I managed to get home in only two more attempts.
I still had 16 words left after those opening two blanks, and came up with 10 of them: PIGGY, DIZZY, FIZZY, WIMPY, DIPPY, HIPPY, GIDDY, VIVID, WHIZZ and WHIFF. Some of the others — for instance JIFFY, JIMMY and GIDDY — were bad misses by me, others (BIDDY, DIVVY) less so.
Either way, I had enough info to see that DIPPY made for a good next guess. It was unlikely to guarantee me a four, but WordleBot's best suggestion (DUMPY) was only slightly better in theory, and in practice both left two options.
In my case, these were DIZZY and DIVVY, and as I said above the latter doesn't seem like a realistic answer (although we've had worse — looking at you, SNAFU).
I went with DIZZY, then, and scored a four that seemed very unlikely halfway through the game. Hopefully tomorrow will be another interesting challenge…
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1713)
In a different time zone where it's still Thursday? Don't worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1713, 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 L.
L is a surprisingly uncommon starting letter in Wordle. Despite being the sixth most common letter overall, it's only ranked 12th at the beginning of a word.
- 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 #1713.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is a long spear.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1713)
- NYT average score: 3.5
- My score: 3
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 99
- My luck score: 66
- My start word performance: SANER (4 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (20)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1713) was… LANCE.
Ah, I've been waiting for this one. LANCE is one of the best start words yet to appear as an answer, 15th in the rankings according to WordleBot and with only CARTE, SLANT and CARET ahead of it as unused solutions.
Beyond that, it is also the first name of my colleague Lance Ulanoff, one of the first people to write about Wordle for TechRadar (or any website) way back in early January 2022. I very much doubt he starts with his own name, though, so he won't have scored a one.
A few people may well have done, though, and plenty more will have got a two. CRANE, which is played by around 2% of all Wordlers, left only two options — LANCE and DANCE — and though SLATE was a bit behind that, it still reduced the pool to a manageable 20.
My SANER was very lucky too, cutting the shortlist to a quartet of LANCE, DANCE, CANOE and MANGE. I didn't think of the latter but came up with the other three, and played DANCE safe in the knowledge that it would guarantee me the answer in three at worst even if wrong. It was wrong, but I finished it off easily for a three on the next guess anyway.
Wordle answers: The past 50
I've been playing Wordle every day for more than three 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 #1713, Thursday 26 February: LANCE
- Wordle #1712, Wednesday 25 February: SHRED
- Wordle #1711, Tuesday 24 February: BUYER
- Wordle #1710, Monday 23 February: ATTIC
- Wordle #1709, Sunday 22 February: GUAVA
- Wordle #1708, Saturday 21 February: AWAKE
- Wordle #1707, Friday 20 February: STANK
- Wordle #1706, Thursday 19 February: HOIST
- Wordle #1705, Wednesday 18 February: MOGUL
- Wordle #1704, Tuesday 17 February: SQUAD
- Wordle #1703, Monday 16 February: ROOST
- Wordle #1702, Sunday 15 February: SKULL
- Wordle #1701, Saturday 14 February: BLOOM
- Wordle #1700, Friday 13 February: MOOCH
- Wordle #1699, Thursday 12 February: SURGE
- Wordle #1698, Wednesday 11 February: VEGAN
- Wordle #1697, Tuesday 10 February: SCENE
- Wordle #1696, Monday 9 February: CELLO
- Wordle #1695, Sunday 8 February: EMBED
- Wordle #1694, Saturday 7 February: BLEAT
- Wordle #1693, Friday 6 February: GAVEL
- Wordle #1692, Thursday 5 February: SWOOP
- Wordle #1691, Wednesday 4 February: CHIDE
- Wordle #1690, Tuesday 3 February: WEIGH
- Wordle #1689, Monday 2 February: CIGAR
- Wordle #1688, Sunday 1 February: SPINY
- Wordle #1687, Saturday 31 January: ALLOT
- Wordle #1686, Friday 30 January: JUMBO
- Wordle #1685, Thursday 29 January: FLAKY
- Wordle #1684, Wednesday 28 January: CRUEL
- Wordle #1683, Tuesday 27 January: DUSKY
- Wordle #1682, Monday 26 January: FREAK
- Wordle #1681, Sunday 25 January: STRUT
- Wordle #1680, Saturday 24 January: CLIFF
- Wordle #1679, Friday 23 January: BARON
- Wordle #1678, Thursday 22 January: CLINK
- Wordle #1677, Wednesday 21 January: CUBIC
- Wordle #1676, Tuesday 20 January: SULLY
- Wordle #1675, Monday 19 January: WAXEN
- Wordle #1674, Sunday 18 January: SUMAC
- Wordle #1673, Saturday 17 January: FIERY
- Wordle #1672, Friday 16 January: RACER
- Wordle #1671, Thursday 15 January: CHASM
- Wordle #1670, Wednesday 14 January: AVOID
- Wordle #1669, Tuesday 13 January: GUMBO
- Wordle #1668, Monday 12 January: TRIAL
- Wordle #1667, Sunday 11 January: QUARK
- Wordle #1666, Saturday 10 January: MANIC
- Wordle #1665, Friday 9 January: EIGHT
- Wordle #1664, Thursday 8 January: BLAST
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.
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