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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 #1670) - 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 #1670) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is A.
A is a reasonably common starting letter in Wordle: 140 games begin with this letter. It ranks 6th among starting letters, behind S, C, B, T and P.
Wordle hints (game #1670) - 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 #1670) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is D.
D is a fairly common letter to end a Wordle answer: it's the eighth most likely to be in that position in a solution.
Wordle hints (game #1670) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1670.
- Today's Wordle answer is to keep away from.
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.
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Today's Wordle answer (game #1670)
- NYT average score: 3.5
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 92
- My luck score: 42
- My start word performance: SANER (127 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (202)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1670) is… AVOID.
I suspect that not many regular readers of this column begin with ADIEU or AUDIO. They're the two most popular start words in the game by a distance, with 9% and 7% of Wordlers respectively playing them each day (compared to 4% who begin with STARE), but veterans of the game know that they are not among the best choices on average.
The problem is all of those vowels; it might seem sensible to work out which ones are included early on, but really it's consonants that shape the game on most days. Plus, there are 21 of those to choose from, and only five vowels (or 20/6 if you count Y as a vowel).
Some days, however, ADIEU and AUDIO come up trumps – and today was one of those days. The former contains three of the letters from AVOID and left only three possible solutions: ACRID, APHID and AVOID. That will probably have given people a three, and potentially a two.
The latter, meanwhile, contains four of the letters from AVOID and left only one solution – the answer itself (obviously). So that was a guaranteed two for 7% of players today, at the least.
The problem with an ADIEU/AUDIO success is that it heavily skews the average. It stands at 3.5 at the time of writing, but my guess is that if you began with the likes of SLATE (202 possibles) or CRANE (189) you'll have faced a slightly harder time of it here, not least because AVOID contains an uncommon V.
It's not a really tough one, though, whatever you began with – because the presence of all of those vowels will have given many people plenty of yellow and green letters to work with fairly swiftly.
I had one of each by the time I'd played my second word, CLAIM, and that left me with six possible solutions; not bad given that I had 127 after the first word.
Amazingly, I found all six – something I'm rarely capable of doing. These were APHID, AFFIX, AUDIT, AVOID, AUDIO and TIBIA, although I dismissed AUDIO immediately because I remembered it as a past Wordle answer.
APHID was guaranteed to rule out all but one of the answers (or to be correct itself), so I went with that and was left with a straightforward four on a day when many will have notched up an even more straightforward two. Lucky them.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1669)
In a different time zone where it's still Tuesday? Don't worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1669, 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 G.
G is the eighth most common starting letter, featuring in 115 Wordle answers. It's often paired with an R to make GR--- or an L to make GL---, but I'm not revealing whether that's the case today.
- 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 O.
O is a middling ending letter. It ranks 12th in this regard, and finishes 58 Wordle answers in total.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1669.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is a type of soup or stew.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1669)
- NYT average score: 4.4
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 5
- My skill score: 99
- My luck score: 37
- My start word performance: SANER (304 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (315)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1669) was… GUMBO.
I'll be honest, I didn't exactly know what GUMBO was before looking it up for this column. I knew it was a food, and I knew it was a soup or stew – but to be specific, it's a stew from Louisiana that usually contains onions, celery, bell peppers plus meat or shellfish, and often okra. So there you have it.
What I did know about GUMBO right after playing it was that it would probably make for a difficult Wordle answer, and its average score of 4.4 confirms that hunch. That's probably due to a combination of the relative uncommonness of the word outside of Louisiana or at least outside of the United States – and the letters included.
In terms of the latter point, G, M and B are all middling letters in general: 17th, 16th and 18th respectively. Plus, U is the least common of the vowels, and far less likely to appear than an E or A in particular.
I scored a four thanks largely to a very lucky second guess. It wasn't an inspired choice as such, because it was CLOUT – which is what I always play after drawing a blank on the first word – but that gave me the O and U in yellow form, and cut the shortlist to five.
I only thought of three of these – DOUGH, BOUGH and JUMBO – so playing BOUGH next was an easy enough choice. When the first four letters turned yellow I was initially flummoxed, but after a few minutes puzzling over it I spotted GUMBO and played it for a WordleBot-beating 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 #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
- Wordle #1663, Wednesday 7 January: PECAN
- Wordle #1662, Tuesday 6 January: OOMPH
- Wordle #1661, Monday 5 January: FILLY
- Wordle #1660, Sunday 4 January: POSSE
- Wordle #1659, Saturday 3 January: SITAR
- Wordle #1658, Friday 2 January: PROOF
- Wordle #1657, Thursday 1 January: FABLE
- Wordle #1656, Wednesday 31 December: SIREN
- Wordle #1655, Tuesday 30 December: DECOR
- Wordle #1654, Monday 29 December: FRUIT
- Wordle #1653, Sunday 28 December: ABBOT
- Wordle #1652, Saturday 27 December: BATCH
- Wordle #1651, Friday 26 December: SPEED
- Wordle #1650, Thursday 25 December: PRISM
- Wordle #1649, Wednesday 24 December: SPOOL
- Wordle #1648, Tuesday 23 December: GLINT
- Wordle #1647, Monday 22 December: CONCH
- Wordle #1646, Sunday 21 December: QUILT
- Wordle #1645, Saturday 20 December: WHITE
- Wordle #1644, Friday 19 December: MYRRH
- Wordle #1643, Thursday 18 December: RUGBY
- Wordle #1642, Wednesday 17 December: GRASS
- Wordle #1641, Tuesday 16 December: SEGUE
- Wordle #1640, Monday 15 December: DODGY
- Wordle #1639, Sunday 14 December: SWING
- Wordle #1638, Saturday 13 December: MISER
- Wordle #1637, Friday 12 December: TRUCK
- Wordle #1636, Thursday 11 December: GUESS
- Wordle #1635, Wednesday 10 December: ERASE
- Wordle #1634, Tuesday 9 December: SNIDE
- Wordle #1633, Monday 8 December: GRAVY
- Wordle #1632, Sunday 7 December: FLUTE
- Wordle #1631, Saturday 6 December: WAIST
- Wordle #1630, Friday 5 December: WAIST
- Wordle #1629, Thursday 4 December: TULIP
- Wordle #1628, Wednesday 3 December: HASTE
- Wordle #1627, Tuesday 2 December: CACTI
- Wordle #1626, Monday 1 December: LEACH
- Wordle #1625, Sunday 30 November: MUGGY
- Wordle #1624, Saturday 29 November: GRUFF
- Wordle #1623, Friday 28 November: COLIC
- Wordle #1622, Thursday 27 November: REMIT
- Wordle #1621, Wednesday 26 November: HOVEL
- Wordle #1620, Tuesday 25 November: PLEAD
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.
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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