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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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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 #1624) - 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 #1624) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is 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.
Wordle hints (game #1624) - 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 #1624) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is F.
F is not a particularly common ending letter in Wordle. It only ranks 17th in this regard, and a mere 26 of the 2,000-plus original Wordle answers end in this letter.
Wordle hints (game #1624) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1623.
- Today's Wordle answer is having a deep or hoarse voice.
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 #1624)
- NYT average score: 4.1
- My score: 5
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 87
- My luck score: 31
- My start word performance: SANER (139 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (315)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1624) is… GRUFF.
There's a real art in choosing the perfect narrowing-down word, and sometimes I manage to make a right mess of it. Today was one such day.
With some answers that wouldn't necessarily matter, but today it did – because GRUFF is a tough Wordle, with an average of 4.1; that's above the 4.0 level that yesterday's COLIC finished at.
The repeated Fs are the big complication, together with the fact that as a word it's not all that common. Not obscure by any means, but it's not an everyday term. Then again, neither is COLIC unless you're a new parent or a carer of some kind.
I began fairly poorly again; SANER has not been a huge success for me, beyond the fact that it's enabled me to complete the game more quickly each day, with one less variable to worry about.
Today, it gave me only a yellow R and left 139 options, and my immediate reaction was to move that R to the second position. BROIL added three very common letters and one that's very common at the start of answers, but it turned out that none of those four were included today. The R did turn green, at least, and that cut my options to eight.
It was at that point that I needed a good narrowing-down word. I could see that GRUMP, CRUMP, FRUMP, GRUFF, TRUMP, TRUCK and TRUTH were all possibilities, but I couldn't find a way to separate them all.
The trick here is to find a word that even though it won't be the answer itself contains letters that are found in the possible solutions – and, crucially, in the same positions. Sometimes it's doable, and after running through the possibilities on a sheet of paper (or more commonly these days, my computer) I find a word that does the job.
But today, it didn't happen. THICK would come closest – because the T at the start would indicate one of those final three words, while the H and K would then choose between them. But it wouldn't help me decide between GRUMP, GRUFF and FRUMP. Still, I couldn't think of anything better, so I played it anyway.
What I'd missed was that CRYPT was also an answer – and that playing it next would also have removed GRUFF from the reckoning (or confirmed it as the answer). That would have given me a definite four, then, but instead I was left with a three-way choice between FRUMP, GRUMP and GRUFF.
This time it didn't matter which I played – any of them would have ruled out at least one more word and guaranteed me a five. I went with FRUMP in the end, and when it was wrong was left to play GRUFF next for that five.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1623)
In a different time zone where it's still Friday? Don't worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1623, 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 C.
C is a very common starting letter in Wordle – in fact, it's the second most common of all, behind only S.
- 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 C.
C is a fairly uncommon letter to end a Wordle answer – it's only the 16th most likely to be found there.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1623.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is something babies suffer from sometimes.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1623)
- NYT average score: 4.0
- 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
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1623) was… 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 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.
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 #1623, Friday 28 November: COLIC
- 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
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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