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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.
Don't think you need any clues for Wordle today? No problem, just skip to my daily column. But remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.
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 #1808) - 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 #1808) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is C.
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 #1808) - 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 #1808) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is I.
I is a really unlikely letter to end a Wordle answer. Only 11 of the game's 2,309 original solutions finish with one, making it just the 19th most common in this position.
Wordle hints (game #1808) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1808.
- Today's Wordle answer is hot!
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 #1808)
- NYT average score: 4.8
- My score: 5
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 94
- My luck score: 31
- 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 #1808) is… CHILI.
How do you spell CHILI? I'm in the UK, where it is most definitely spelled CHILLI with two Ls; in some southwestern areas of the US it is also spelled CHILE with an E.
For once, I'm not going to claim that US English is wrong (and I'm never really serious when I've done that in the past anyway), because both forms have been recorded in English since the 17th century. Why the Brits settled on one L and the Americans on two has been lost in the mists of time…
Regardless of who's right, this linguistic difference does make today's Wordle harder for non-US speakers, potentially; the average at the time of writing, very early in the day for the UK and with the US not yet online, is a mighty 4.8 — but I wouldn't be surprised if it drops as America wakes.
That said, CHILI is a difficult word anyway, due to that repeated letter 'I'. Whereas A, E and O are very likely to be repeated, with 69, 172 and 81 examples respectively, there are only 24 games that contain more than one I.
It certainly caused me some problems — and yes, the biggest one was that it never made it on to my shortlist until I'd exhausted all other possibilities. That spelling just never occurred to me.
Instead, I thought that I had a choice between CHILL, CHILD and CIVIL on the third guess, so went with CHILD thinking that at worst I'd score a four. When the first four letters turned green I mistakenly assumed that CHILL had to be the solution and played that — only to be horrified when that final L also failed to go green. Not fair.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1807)
In a different time zone where it's still Sunday? Don't worry — I can give you some clues for Wordle #1807, too.
- Wordle yesterday had 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).
- The first letter in yesterday's Wordle answer was E.
We don't get many Wordle answers that start with an E – though it's the most common letter in the game, it's only the 14th most likely to begin a solution.
- 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 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 #1807.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is a type of musical composition.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1807)
- NYT average score: 3.9
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 97
- My luck score: 39
- My start word performance: SANER (182 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (23)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1807) was… ETUDE.
I'm a little surprised to see that ETUDE only has an average score of 3.9, given the potential difficulty of the word. It has a repeated E, for starters, although that alone is not enough to make it truly tricky. No, I'd say the bigger issue is that ETUDE is not really a common word.
Or is it? Maybe this is simply an example of me not knowing about a particular subject, in this case music. I love listening to music (and was a music journalist for several years), but have never learned to play an instrument, so was not familiar with ETUDE as a term.
Or rather, I wasn't familiar with what it meant; I did already know that the word existed, because a) it's appeared as an answer in Quordle and b) I used it as a start word once, back when I was playing random words given to me by a word generator. But until now, I didn't know that it was a type of musical composition typically intended for practice.
I also didn't know that it should really have an accent over the first E to make étude; then again, it's a capital, so that doesn't really apply — but it might have put a few people off playing it.
Set against the potential complications are the fact that ETUDE is made up of common letters, thus making it easier in general, and that anyone playing STARE as their opening guess will have had only two potential solutions. That latter point may well explain the average of 3.9; without it, I expect 4.1 or 4.2 is more realistic.
It was a four for me, and given that I didn't even consider ETUDE until it was the only solution remaining, that's as good as I could have expected. Instead, I thought that QUITE was the only word left to me on the third guess, whereas in reality I had that, ETUDE and BUTTE.
QUITE was not right, but it left ETUDE as the only answer — which is just as well, as I'd never have found it otherwise!
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 #1807, Sunday 31 May: ETUDE
- Wordle #1806, Saturday 30 May: SMILE
- Wordle #1805, Friday 29 May: CLANG
- Wordle #1804, Thursday 28 May: DIVOT
- Wordle #1803, Wednesday 27 May: STUFF
- Wordle #1802, Tuesday 26 May: COUCH
- Wordle #1801, Monday 25 May: VISIT
- Wordle #1800, Sunday 24 May: NIECE
- Wordle #1799, Saturday 23 May: CHUCK
- Wordle #1798, Friday 22 May: VOCAL
- Wordle #1797, Thursday 21 May: AGREE
- Wordle #1796, Wednesday 20 May: WRECK
- Wordle #1795, Tuesday 19 May: DUSTY
- Wordle #1794, Monday 18 May: LOATH
- Wordle #1793, Sunday 17 May: BYLAW
- Wordle #1792, Saturday 16 May: MOVER
- Wordle #1791, Friday 15 May: CREED
- Wordle #1790, Thursday 14 May: WAVER
- Wordle #1789, Wednesday 13 May: DOWDY
- Wordle #1788, Tuesday 12 May: CLOCK
- Wordle #1787, Monday 11 May: NEWLY
- Wordle #1786, Sunday 10 May: PARKA
- Wordle #1785, Saturday 9 May: SATIN
- Wordle #1784, Friday 8 May: UMBRA
- Wordle #1783, Thursday 7 May: BUDGE
- Wordle #1782, Wednesday 6 May: LIKEN
- Wordle #1781, Tuesday 5 May: LATCH
- Wordle #1780, Monday 4 May: RISER
- Wordle #1779, Sunday 3 May: PUFFY
- Wordle #1778, Saturday 2 May: BRING
- Wordle #1777, Friday 1 May: PLUME
- Wordle #1776, Thursday 30 April: CROCK
- Wordle #1775, Wednesday 29 April: RURAL
- Wordle #1774, Tuesday 28 April: QUACK
- Wordle #1773, Monday 27 April: EERIE
- Wordle #1772, Sunday 26 April: GLOSS
- Wordle #1771, Saturday 25 April: WOMEN
- Wordle #1770, Friday 24 April: DRUNK
- Wordle #1769, Thursday 23 April: TWEET
- Wordle #1768, Wednesday 22 April: SNORE
- Wordle #1767, Tuesday 21 April: CLUMP
- Wordle #1766, Monday 20 April: WEAVE
- Wordle #1765, Sunday 19 April: STAND
- Wordle #1764, Saturday 18 April: TOADY
- Wordle #1763, Friday 17 April: BELLE
- Wordle #1762, Thursday 16 April: CUBIT
- Wordle #1761, Wednesday 15 April: BEGUN
- Wordle #1760, Tuesday 14 April: CYCLE
- Wordle #1759, Monday 13 April: ELFIN
- Wordle #1758, Sunday 12 April: ALLEY
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.
