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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 #1968) - 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 #1968) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is F.
F is a very common starting letter in Wordle. It ranks seventh behind only S, C, B, T, P and A and overall there are 135 solutions that begin with this letter.
Wordle hints (game #1968) - 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 #1968) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is T.
T is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – in fact only E and Y are more likely in that position.
Wordle hints (game #1968) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1968.
- Today's Wordle answer is before anything else.
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 #1968)
- NYT average score: 3.3
- My score: 3
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 88
- My luck score: 70
- My start word performance: SANER (33 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (32)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1968) is… FIRST.
We've gone almost from one extreme to the in the space of two days, with the super-simple FIRST following yesterday's very difficult PRATE. In fact, the gap between the two is one of the biggest in the game's history, with FIRST coming in 1.4 guesses below PRATE, at an average of only 3.3. The biggest swing, since you ask, was the 2.8 guesses between PARER (6.3) and CHUTE (3.5) back in September 2022.
FIRST is a repeated answer, our first since MOTOR 10 days ago, which continues a pattern that you could almost set your watch by, given how regular it is (if, y'know, watches counted days rather than minutes and hours).
This one originally appeared as the solution to game #56 in August 2021, way back before any of us were playing. I don't expect it to have caused many more problems for the few who did attempt it at the time — because there are no complications here at all.
I scored a welcome 3 following yesterday's 5, but I did need a little luck. SANER had left 33 options, and I went with BROTH as the follow up since I wanted a word that included T and H, which I thought would be likely to pair with my yellow S.
I thought that logic was sound, but the 'Bot instead lectured me that I'd have been better playing FRUIT or VIRUS in order to include a second vowel. Technically it was right, of course — but I'd always rather gain extra info about consonants, so I'm standing by it.
Anyway, the lucky bit here was that probability-wise, FIRST should have left 3.2 possible answers, but instead it left only a pair: FIRST and WURST. I didn't even think of the latter, so played FIRST and scored that 3.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1967)
In a different time zone where it's still Saturday? Don't worry — I can give you some clues for Wordle #1967, 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 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.
- 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 #1967.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is to chat inanely.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1967)
- NYT average score: 4.7
- My score: 5
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 98
- My luck score: 31
- My start word performance: SANER (70 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (8)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1967) was… PRATE.
Today's game was a lesson in making assumptions. Or rather, in not making them if you want to achieve the best score in Wordle.
PRATE is a difficult Wordle, of that there is no doubt. It has an average score of 4.7 at the time of writing, and that's despite SLATE leaving only eight possible solutions and STARE just seven. Many people who started with those words will have scored a 3 or 4, so for the average to be so high a lot of other people must have got 5s (as I did) or worse.
I suspect there will be some streaks lost today, because it's not a common word at all and it also falls firmly into the too-many-answers category of Wordle: change the first letter and you could have CRATE, GRATE, ORATE or IRATE, change the second and you could have PLATE.
I never came close to losing my streak today, but that was only because I had a very lucky second guess.
SANER had given me three yellows, when really what I'd have prefered was one or two greens, particularly as there are so many ways you can arrange A, E and R together. I drew up a shortlist that was really a longlist just to try to get an idea of what format the answer might have. The obvious approaches were either -REA- (as in FREAK, BREAK, BREAD, TREAT) or -RA-E (as in FRAME, TRACE, BRAVE), but there were multiple other options too.
CRAFT had worked for me before in this scenario, so I went with it again and here I got lucky: the R and A turned green and the T went yellow. This reduced my options to four — or so I thought. The ones I had listed were GRATE, TRADE, IRATE and ORATE, but in reality PRATE was also lurking, unknown to my tired brain…
I could see that none of my four shortlisted words would guarantee me a 4, so searched for a narrowing-down word instead and realized that DROIT — a word I regularly play on the second guess — would work really well on the third this time, even though it meant playing the T in a place where I knew it couldn't be. But no matter, it was guaranteed to give me a four. Or so I thought.
DROIT eliminated three of the answers, just as I'd expected it to, leaving GRATE and PRATE. But I still hadn't thought of the latter, so went with GRATE and was baffled when it was incorrect. I went through the alphabet and realized my mistake, but that meant settling for my first 5 since BINGO 11 days ago. Still, could be worse…
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 #1967, Saturday 7 November: PRATE
- Wordle #1966, Friday 6 November: DRECK
- Wordle #1965, Thursday 5 November: PARCH
- Wordle #1964, Wednesday 4 November: NUTTY
- Wordle #1963, Tuesday 3 November: POUCH
- Wordle #1962, Monday 2 November: SCOOT
- Wordle #1961, Sunday 1 November: VIPER
- Wordle #1960, Saturday 31 October: YAHOO
- Wordle #1959, Friday 30 October: SLIDE
- Wordle #1958, Thursday 29 October: MOTOR
- Wordle #1957, Wednesday 28 October: GRIST
- Wordle #1956, Tuesday 27 October: BINGO
- Wordle #1955, Monday 26 October: GEEKY
- Wordle #1954, Sunday 25 October: DRESS
- Wordle #1953, Saturday 24 October: HOLEY
- Wordle #1952, Friday 23 October: TRILL
- Wordle #1951, Thursday 22 October: RESET
- Wordle #1950, Wednesday 21 October: PENNY
- Wordle #1949, Tuesday 20 October: WREST
- Wordle #1948, Monday 19 October: STINK
- Wordle #1947, Sunday 18 October: ADORN
- Wordle #1946, Saturday 17 October: GAFFE
- Wordle #1945, Friday 16 October: SHADY
- Wordle #1944, Thursday 15 October: DUNCE
- Wordle #1943, Wednesday 14 October: PSYCH
- Wordle #1942, Tuesday 13 October: WIDER
- Wordle #1941, Monday 12 October: YODEL
- Wordle #1940, Sunday 11 October: UNCAP
- Wordle #1939, Saturday 10 October: BUMPY
- Wordle #1938, Friday 9 October: MAJOR
- Wordle #1937, Thursday 8 October: STREW
- Wordle #1936, Wednesday 7 October: PROVE
- 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
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.
