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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 #1792) - 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 #1792) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is M.
M is a middling letter when it comes to starting a word. It sits 10th in the rankings, with 107 occurrences in the 2,309 answers.
Wordle hints (game #1792) - 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 #1792) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is R.
R is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – it's actually the 4th most common there, behind E, Y and T.
Wordle hints (game #1792) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1792.
- Today's Wordle answer is someone or something that relocates
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 #1792)
- NYT average score: 4.8
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 98
- My luck score: 47
- My start word performance: SANER (111 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (329)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1792) is… MOVER.
Congratulations, everyone! You have just completed what is officially the hardest week in Wordle's history. Yes, the past seven days have collectively been tougher than any before, with today's MOVER coming in at 4.8 and sending the overall average for the week to 4.57.
The previous record, if you're interested, was 4.48 for the seven games up to and including the awful PARER in September 2022, but that one answer skewed the average, so on the whole this run has been way worse.
I do have a couple of caveats. One, you could argue that it's not really a week. Does a week start on a Saturday? Probably not — Monday would be more like it. So really it's more like 'the toughest seven-day run', but that isn't quite as snappy. And two, I don't have average scores for the first 200-odd games, so maybe there was an even harder sequence in the early days.
I doubt it, though. I mean, just look at this!
Game | Answer | My score | Average score |
|---|---|---|---|
1786 | PARKA | 5 | 4.5 |
1787 | NEWLY | 4 | 4.3 |
1788 | CLOCK | 3 | 4.1 |
1789 | DOWDY | 4 | 4.9 |
1790 | WAVER | 6 | 5.3 |
1791 | CREED | 4 | 4.1 |
1792 | MOVER | 4 | 4.8 |
MOVER is at least easier than WAVER and a tiny bit below DOWDY too, but by any other measure it's a monumentally tricky Wordle.
Like WAVER, it's an ER word, like WAVER it has an uncommon V in the middle. On the plus side, the M at the start is a little more common, and there are also slightly fewer -O-ER words than -A-ER words (25 to 29).
Hey, look, I'm trying my best to find silver linings in this cloud, alright!
Actually, I do have one other positive, in that I scored a four once again. I had an advantage of course, because SANER gave me the ER at the end right away, and then I made what was either a very lucky or inspired second guess.
Specifically, I went with DIVOT — which gave me the O and the V. This was calculated, because I know that V is a more common letter in an ER word than it is in general, and there was probably some recency bias involved too, given that WAVER was still fresh in my mind.
Either way, it worked, cutting my 111 options down to five. These were all genuine possibilities, though, so I still had work to do: MOVER, LOVER, COVER, ROVER and HOVER.
I needed a good narrowing-down word, and went with MULCH — which as far as I know was the only choice that would have guaranteed me a four. When the M turned green I had my solution, and breathed a big sigh of relief.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1791)
In a different time zone where it's still Friday? Don't worry — I can give you some clues for Wordle #1791, 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 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.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1791.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is a set of beliefs.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1791)
- NYT average score: 4.1
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 97
- My luck score: 42
- My start word performance: SANER (51 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (329)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1791) was… CREED.
This seems like something of an easy one after the week that we've had, but in any other scenario I'd be looking on it as a fairly difficult puzzle. Based on its average of 4.1 it is harder than the norm, sure, but compared to the 5.3 for Thursday's WAVER or the 4.9 for Wednesday's DOWDY, it's a cinch.
But the unwary may still have faced problems. The repeated E in the middle is a complication, obviously, but an arguably bigger issue is the existence of six very similarly spelled words: BREED, GREED, FREED, CREEK, CREEP and CRIED.
If your game played out like mine then you will have faced the CREED/BREED/GREED/FREED dilemma. Interestingly, I also had two other words that I didn't at any stage consider: ERRED and URGED. But I was blind to them, fixated as I was on that -REED format.
Fortunately, I had a secret weapon. BEFOG is a really handy narrowing-down word in Wordle; it's not a term I've ever used in real life, but you'd be amazed how many times it's helped me decide between B-, F- and G-containing answers in this game or (even more regularly, for some reason) Quordle.
BEFOG didn't give me a B, or an F, or a G — which meant it had to be CREED. Except… it didn't, because it could also have still been ERRED. But I didn't know that at the time, and guessed correctly for an adequate 4.
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 #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
- Wordle #1757, Saturday 11 April: PRUDE
- Wordle #1756, Friday 10 April: CAROM
- Wordle #1755, Thursday 9 April: LADEN
- Wordle #1754, Wednesday 8 April: INLET
- Wordle #1753, Tuesday 7 April: DENSE
- Wordle #1752, Monday 6 April: SWORN
- Wordle #1751, Sunday 5 April: ENVOY
- Wordle #1750, Saturday 4 April: SANDY
- Wordle #1749, Friday 3 April: SINGE
- Wordle #1748, Thursday 2 April: SOBER
- Wordle #1747, Wednesday 1 April: FIZZY
- Wordle #1746, Tuesday 31 March: SWAMP
- Wordle #1745, Monday 30 March: COMET
- Wordle #1744, Sunday 29 March: CHUMP
- Wordle #1743, Saturday 28 March: AFOOT
- Wordle #1742, Friday 27 March: IVORY
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.
