NYT Wordle today — answer and my hints for game #1623, Friday, November 28

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Wordle hints (game #1623) - clue #1 - Vowels

* 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 #1623) - clue #2 - first letter

C is a very common starting letter in Wordle – in fact, it's the second most common of all, behind only S.

Wordle hints (game #1623) - clue #3 - repeated letters

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 #1623) - clue #4 - ending letter

C is a fairly uncommon letter to end a Wordle answer – it's only the 16th most likely to be found there.

Wordle hints (game #1623) - clue #5 - last chance

Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1623.

• Today's Wordle answer is something babies suffer from sometimes.

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 #1623)

• NYT average score: 4.1
• My score: 3
• WordleBot's score: 4
• My skill score: 98
• My luck score: 57
• My start word performance: SANER (304 remaining answers)
• WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (106)
• Tomorrow's start word: SANER

Today's Wordle answer (game #1623) is… COLIC.

A little bit of luck can go a long way in Wordle. And a big bit of luck can go even further, as I found out today when I jumped from 304 possible solutions to just two in one guess.

I'm glad I got that good fortune on my second guess, because COLIC is undoubtedly a difficult Wordle answer to find. It's not a particularly common word, for starters, and also contains two Cs.

The latter is not quite as unlikely an occurrence as you might think; there are 29 games that contain repeated Cs, and five that have them at either end of the word. We've had three so far, in fact, but if you can remember them then you have a far better memory than me, because they were all a long time ago: CIVIC was game #96, CONIC was #175 and CYNIC #240.

COLIC is the fourth, then, but that doesn't mean that there's now only one still to come… because it's not from the original list of 2,309 solutions compiled by Josh Wardle. Instead, it's been added by the NYT, which inevitably means it's a tough one, as its current average of 4.1 implies.

So in fact there are at least two more C---C words to be wary of. I'm pretty sure I know what both of them will be, too; they're not that hard to think of really, because there are only a few letters that regularly go either after or before a C.

My start word once again was SANER, and today it gave me no letters. None at all. But no matter, because I followed up with CLOUT, and that gave me a green C, yellow L and yellow O. They could only be arranged in two ways – either COLIC or COYLY. After a bit of deliberation I settled on the first of those and got it right. Nice.

Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1622)

In a different time zone where it's still Thursday? Don't worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1622, 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 R.

R is a surprisingly uncommon starting letter. Despite ranking third overall in Wordle, it's merely the 11th most likely to begin an answer.

• 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 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 #1622.

• Yesterday's Wordle answer is an area of responsibility.

Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1622)

• NYT average score: 3.8
• My score: 4
• WordleBot's score: 4
• My skill score: 91
• My luck score: 50
• My start word performance: SANER (125 remaining answers)
• WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (119)
• Tomorrow's start word: SANER

Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1622) was… REMIT.

Everyone knows that ER is the most common two-letter combination in Wordle, with 141 instances – but what about the reverse?

Well, I didn't know the answer until I crunched the numbers, but it turns out that RE is the equal seventh most common starting combo, with 36 examples. REMIT is the 26th to have appeared so far, so we have at least 10 more to come.

They're often quite tricky, too – here are the scores for the ones we've so far had:

As you can see, there are plenty of games with an average of 4.0 or above, which is usually the indicator of a tough Wordle.

This game isn't quite at that level, with an average score of 3.8, but it's not easy either. I had to settle for a 4/6, largely because I didn't have a lot of luck; my skill score of 91 wasn't too bad, but my luck was at 50.

Once again, my opening guess was SANER – and once again, it didn't actually perform that well. I know that over the course of a week or two I'll have better results than playing random starters, but here it only gave me the yellow E and R, and left 125 words.

I cut that to eight by playing PRICE – which placed the E and R in their most common positions – but eight was too many to realistically give me a chance of a three. I did try, though, playing REFIT – which was one of six RE words, alongside REMIX, REDID, REBID, RELIT and REMIT. I'm slightly ashamed to say that I didn't think of any of those other than REMIT.

I did think of FIERY and MERIT as well, though, so playing REFIT made sense because it would be guaranteed to help me choose between the four words on my list. It wasn't right, but it confirmed the format and left REMIT and RELIT as the only options. I still hadn't thought of the latter, though, so played the former in ignorance and scored my four.

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 #1622, Thursday 27 November: REMIT
• Wordle #1621, Wednesday 26 November: HOVEL
• Wordle #1620, Tuesday 25 November: PLEAD
• Wordle #1619, Monday 24 November: DOUGH
• Wordle #1618, Sunday 23 November: BUNNY
• Wordle #1617, Saturday 22 November: THICK
• Wordle #1616, Friday 21 November: VOWEL
• Wordle #1615, Thursday 20 November: GRAVE
• Wordle #1614, Wednesday 19 November: MAKER
• Wordle #1613, Tuesday 18 November: OPINE
• Wordle #1612, Monday 17 November: CLAMP
• Wordle #1611, Sunday 16 November: WIELD
• Wordle #1610, Saturday 15 November: CLUNG
• Wordle #1609, Friday 14 November: LURID
• Wordle #1608, Thursday 13 November: TINGE
• Wordle #1607, Wednesday 12 November: DEUCE
• Wordle #1606, Tuesday 11 November: GIZMO
• Wordle #1605, Monday 10 November: TABBY
• Wordle #1604, Sunday 9 November: FUGUE
• Wordle #1603, Saturday 8 November: ARISE
• Wordle #1602, Friday 7 November: PERIL
• Wordle #1601, Thursday 6 November: GUISE
• Wordle #1600, Wednesday 5 November: SHORT
• Wordle #1599, Tuesday 4 November: VENUE
• Wordle #1598, Monday 3 November: AWOKE
• Wordle #1597, Sunday 2 November: RABID
• Wordle #1596, Saturday 1 November: MOTEL
• Wordle #1595, Friday 31 October: ABHOR
• Wordle #1594, Thursday 30 October: LATHE
• Wordle #1593, Wednesday 29 October: GLARE
• Wordle #1592, Tuesday 28 October: HOLLY
• Wordle #1591, Monday 27 October: FETID
• Wordle #1590, Sunday 26 October: PLUMP
• Wordle #1589, Saturday 25 October: GAUGE
• Wordle #1588, Friday 24 October: TUBER
• Wordle #1587, Thursday 23 October: DRILL
• Wordle #1586, Wednesday 22 October: STUNT
• Wordle #1585, Tuesday 21 October: DETOX
• Wordle #1584, Monday 20 October: LIMBO
• Wordle #1583, Sunday 19 October: IDEAL
• Wordle #1582, Saturday 18 October: HAVEN
• Wordle #1581, Friday 17 October: GROSS
• Wordle #1580, Thursday 16 October: CATTY
• Wordle #1579, Wednesday 15 October: SPOOF
• Wordle #1578, Tuesday 14 October: FORUM
• Wordle #1577, Monday 13 October: BEARD
• Wordle #1576, Sunday 12 October: WOUND
• Wordle #1575, Saturday 11 October: STACK
• Wordle #1574, Friday 10 October: LEVER
• Wordle #1573, Thursday 9 October: HARDY

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 2025.

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.