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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.
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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 #1906) - 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 #1906) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is 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.
Wordle hints (game #1906) - 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 #1906) - 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 #1906) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1906.
- Today's Wordle answer cannot see.
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 #1906)
- NYT average score: 3.8
- My score: 5
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 99
- My luck score: 25
- My start word performance: SANER (86 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (50)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1906) is… BLIND.
A 5 is rarely a welcome score in Wordle, but today at least I can hold my head up and take strength from the fact that I really couldn't have done much more to have beat that. My WordleBot-assigned skill and luck scores tell the story of my game: full marks, 99, for skill but a mere 25 for luck.
Truth be told, the board looks worse than it is, although that's irrelevant given that the score is what it is. However, it was of those games were I ended up with a 50/50 on the fourth guess and picked incorrectly, so finished with a 5 rather than the 4 that I could just have easily have got.
BLIND shouldn't be a terribly difficult Wordle for most people, but it does suffer from the too-many-options problem that is never more than a few days away in this game. After all, change the D at the end and you can also make BLINK and BLING, change the I in the middle and you have BLAND, BLEND and BLOND. Or you may have been missing a couple of letters and have instead played the likes of FLING, CLING, GRIND or CLING, as many others did today.
I played CLING on the third guess, but at that stage of the game I still had a dozen options, so wasn't expecting it to be right. Instead, I hoped it would narrow down the field to just one, but unfortunately it left a duo of BLIND and BLINK. On another day I might have escaped with a 4, then, but here I had to settle for my first truly poor result in about 3 weeks.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1905)
In a different time zone where it's still Sunday? Don't worry — I can give you some clues for Wordle #1905, 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 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 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 #1905.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is a color.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1905)
- NYT average score: 4.2
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 97
- My luck score: 27
- My start word performance: SANER (183 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (121)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1905) was… BEIGE.
BEIGE is one of those words I always struggle to spell because I get confused about where the E and I should go in the middle. I know the rule about I before E but it doesn't apply here, which is hardly uncommon because it only seems to apply in about 50% of cases. And even with this format it doesn't always work — for instance it's SIEGE and LIEGE but BEIGE and I can just never remember which one is which. Yes, I am a journalist and editor of 25-plus years and I can't always spell properly.
Anyway, that wasn't the reason why I had to settle for a 4; it was more a case of a bit of bad luck, or not even that but just an absence of really good luck. After all, BEIGE has an average score of 4.2, so I still dipped just below it.
It has a repeated E, which is a complication — albeit a minor one given that E appears in repeated form more often than some letters do as a singular. Plus, the B and G letters are not in the top 10 or common among start words, even if B is at least very likely at the start of a Wordle (the third most likely, as it happens, after S and C).
I was in a pretty bad place after my first two guesses, with SANER and CLOUT giving me only a yellow E and leaving 16 options. But I could see that several of those contained repeated Es, for instance PEEVE, WEDGE, HEDGE, WEEPY, WEEDY, BEEFY and GEEKY, so decided to test out whether that was a thing here or not by playing WEDGE and was rewarded not with the answer, but with the next best thing: confirmation that the solution had to be BEIGE.
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 #1905, Sunday 6 September: BEIGE
- Wordle #1904, Saturday 5 September: SOUPY
- Wordle #1903, Friday 4 September: WAGER
- Wordle #1902, Thursday 3 September: JOIST
- Wordle #1901, Wednesday 2 September: RULER
- Wordle #1900, Tuesday 1 September: REMIX
- Wordle #1899, Monday 31 August: MOUND
- Wordle #1898, Sunday 30 August: INTEL
- Wordle #1897, Saturday 29 August: BLOOD
- Wordle #1896, Friday 28 August: TWEEN
- Wordle #1895, Thursday 27 August: UNCUT
- Wordle #1894, Wednesday 26 August: CAPON
- Wordle #1893, Tuesday 25 August: CLICK
- Wordle #1892, Monday 24 August: RUNNY
- Wordle #1891, Sunday 23 August: OLDEN
- Wordle #1890, Saturday 22 August: PRAWN
- Wordle #1889, Friday 21 August: TRACE
- Wordle #1888, Thursday 20 August: MURKY
- Wordle #1887, Wednesday 19 August: GRILL
- Wordle #1886, Tuesday 18 August: STRIP
- Wordle #1885, Monday 17 August: TRIBE
- Wordle #1884, Sunday 16 August: ASPIC
- Wordle #1883, Saturday 15 August: LOOSE
- Wordle #1882, Friday 14 August: GEODE
- Wordle #1881, Thursday 13 August: CRASH
- Wordle #1880, Wednesday 12 August: WIMPY
- Wordle #1879, Tuesday 11 August: FENCE
- Wordle #1878, Monday 10 August: SNIPE
- Wordle #1877, Sunday 9 August: CLUNK
- Wordle #1876, Saturday 8 August: PRIVY
- Wordle #1875, Friday 7 August: FEIGN
- Wordle #1874, Thursday 6 August: GRIPE
- Wordle #1873, Wednesday 5 August: POSIT
- Wordle #1872, Tuesday 4 August: MOTIF
- Wordle #1871, Monday 3 August: REPLY
- Wordle #1870, Sunday 2 August: PENAL
- Wordle #1869, Saturday 1 August: SLUSH
- Wordle #1868, Friday 31 July: PURSE
- Wordle #1867, Thursday 30 July: FLUME
- Wordle #1866, Wednesday 29 July: VALVE
- Wordle #1865, Tuesday 28 July: SONAR
- Wordle #1864, Monday 27 July: POSER
- Wordle #1863, Sunday 26 July: GRAPE
- Wordle #1862, Saturday 25 July: ALOHA
- Wordle #1861, Friday 24 July: PUTTY
- Wordle #1860, Thursday 23 July: ORBIT
- Wordle #1859, Wednesday 22 July: LORRY
- Wordle #1858, Tuesday 21 July: SHILL
- Wordle #1857, Monday 20 July: DIVER
- Wordle #1856, Sunday 19 July: CHURN
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.
