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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 three 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 #1619) - 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 #1619) - 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 #1619) - 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 #1619) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is H.
H is a regular visitor to the final spot in a Wordle word. It occurs 137 times at the end of a Wordle answer, making it the sixth most common letter there.
Wordle hints (game #1619) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1619.
- Today's Wordle answer is used in pizza, bread and other foods.
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 #1619)
- NYT average score: 3.7
- My score: 3
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 90
- My luck score: 53
- 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 #1619) is… DOUGH.
My second day using SANER as a start word worked just as well as my first, with a nice three that saw me beat WordleBot. However, it wasn't really my opening guess that did the hard work and more my second.
In fact, SANER drew a blank and left me with 304 remaining solutions – a tiny bit less than the 315 for SLATE but hardly a promising beginning.
The fact that I still got home in two more guesses points towards DOUGH being a relatively straightforward answer, as does its average of 3.7. Letter-wise, that's a little surprising – because O is the only one of the five that features inside the top 10 by frequency.
Then again, on the flip side there aren't a lot of words that have either a DOU-- or -OUGH format, plus it's a very common word in its own right, and it doesn't have any repeated letters – so it's definitely not a tricksy answer like yesterday's BUNNY was.
After my unpromising opening, I decided to play it safely and assemble the remainder of the top 10 letters into my second guess. I couldn't quite work out how to do that, so instead swapped the I for a U and played CLOUT – and got lucky.
CLOUT only turned the two vowels yellow, but by ruling out those three consonants it left only five words. And better still, I only thought of two of them, BOUGH and DOUGH, which made it easy for me to decide to play the latter next and therefore score a slightly undeserved three.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1618)
In a different time zone where it's still Sunday? Don't worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1618, too.
- Wordle yesterday had 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).
- The first letter in yesterday's Wordle answer was B.
B is a very, very common starting letter in Wordle. In fact, it's the third most common overall, behind only S and C.
- 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 Y.
Y is the second most common ending letter in the game, behind only E. In total, 364 Wordle answers end with a Y.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1618.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is an informal term for a particular animal.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1618)
- NYT average score: 4.4
- My score: 3
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 96
- My luck score: 62
- My start word performance: SANER (51 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (315)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1618) was… BUNNY.
Most of you are probably well aware that it's Black Friday this coming week – and for me that means I'll be working odd (and long) hours until the end of Cyber Monday in eight days. I tell you this not to garner sympathy (don't worry, I love Black Friday season anyway), but rather because I've decided to shake up my start word strategy to make life a little easier for myself during this time.
Using a random start word each day slows me down. It make the game more interesting, but it also makes it harder; that's why I'd always recommend anyone who's focused primarily on their scores to pick one and stick with it. And because I don't want to risk losing my streak when I play Wordle blearily eyed at 3am on Thursday, I'm going to use SANER for the next few games.
Why that one? Well, SANER is one of the best Wordle start words that hasn't yet been a solution. It's not right near the top – WordleBot awards it a skill score of 95/99 and it actually ranks 55th overall. However, it does have the advantage of not having been played (many of those above it have) and of ending in ER, while also including a couple of my favorite Wordle letters in S and N. I might get slightly better results with TASER, but I'm not convinced that will ever be a solution given that it's a brand name.
Will it improve my scores? We'll see. But it certainly helped me rush through today's in double-quick time; I've already spent far longer writing about it than I did playing it.
That's because SANER immediately gave me a green N here and reduced my shortlist to 51 on what was a bad day for the likes of SLATE (315 options) and STARE (320). That helped me to a three, against an average of 4.4 that implies many people will have found it hard going.
That green N in the middle of the word immediately suggested to me that it could be a double-N game, because with E already ruled out it couldn't be the likes of --NGE (TINGE, BINGE, LUNGE) or --NCE (WINCE, OUNCE, FENCE) and there aren't many other letters that could follow an N there.
I did come up with a couple of alternatives – including those of the various --NCH traps – WINCH, FINCH, CINCH, LUNCH, BUNCH, HUNCH etc. But I also thought it could be FUNNY, BUNNY, BONNY, TINNY or PUNNY.
To cover off both options, I played COUNT; if the C turned yellow, it might well be an --NCH word, but if the N turned green it would be one of those NNY options. And the latter turned out to be correct.
I got a yellow U, too, so I now knew it was one of three words: FUNNY, PUNNY or BUNNY. I was certain FUNNY had already been an answer, and dubious as to whether PUNNY would really be one, so I risked going for BUNNY while knowing that there was no way I could lose my streak. My gamble paid off this time, and I scored a nice three.
Oh, and if anyone needs any advice on tech purchases over Black Friday, please just ask me in the comments!
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 #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
- Wordle #1572, Wednesday 8 October: ANNOY
- Wordle #1571, Tuesday 7 October: NYLON
- Wordle #1570, Monday 6 October: AMUSE
- Wordle #1569, Sunday 5 October: PLANE
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.
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.
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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