NYT Wordle today — answer and my hints for game #1711, Tuesday, February 24

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Wordle hints (game #1711) - clue #1 - Vowels

* 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 #1711) - clue #2 - first letter

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 #1711) - clue #3 - repeated letters

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 #1711) - clue #4 - ending letter

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 #1711) - clue #5 - last chance

Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1711.

• Today's Wordle answer is someone who purchases.

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 #1711)

• NYT average score: 4.5
• My score: 5
• WordleBot's score: 5
• My skill score: 87
• My luck score: 33
• 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 #1711) is… BUYER.

Benjamin Franklin famously wrote that nothing is certain except death and taxes — but he'd clearly never played Wordle. If had, he might have added "…and difficult ER words."

We've not had one for more than a month, and on that occasion it was RACER, a word with a high-ish 4.2 average. About a month before that, we had MISER (average: 4.0) and a month before that, it was MAKER; a super-high 4.6.

There's a pattern here, obviously, and BUYER continues it neatly, with an average of 4.5. In fact, if you look at the past 50 ER words going all the way back to February 2024, there have been only eight with an average below 4.0 — compared to 33 of 4.0 to 4.9 and nine of 5.0 or above.

It's hardly news that they're difficult, then, and I imagine most people know by now why that's the case: there are simply too many of them. BUYER has a further complication, in that the Y in the middle is not generally found in that position. Oh, and the U before it is less likely than any of the other vowels, too.

I scored a five, but I can't lay all the blame on the answer for that, because I didn't play particularly well either. SANER made decent progress, thanks to it already being an ER word itself. This is one of the reasons why I play it — so the fact that I didn't capitalize on that opening is a major frustration for me.

I followed up with CLOMP, which was chosen because I wanted to include lots of consonants that regularly appear in ER words, as each of C, L, M and P do. But WordleBot preferred PILOT, and in hindsight I can see that playing an extra vowel at this stage would have narrowed things down more quickly.

Instead, I still had 35 words to pick from, and though FIGHT cut them to five, that was still a couple too many for this stage of the game. I found all five, BUYER, DRYER, UDDER, RUDER and QUEER, but guessed wrong with RUDER and had to wait until the fifth attempt to finally solve the puzzle.

Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1710)

In a different time zone where it's still Monday? Don't worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1710, 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 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.

• 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 #1710.

• Yesterday's Wordle answer is a room.

Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1710)

• NYT average score: 3.5
• My score: 3
• WordleBot's score: 3
• My skill score: 92
• My luck score: 57
• My start word performance: SANER (127 remaining answers)
• WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (64)
• Tomorrow's start word: SANER

Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1710) was… ATTIC.

We've had a real glut of repeated letters in Wordle lately. They aren't as uncommon as you might think, in that around 32% of the original solutions contain at least one repeated letter. However, in the past 16 games we've had 10 of them, which is nearly double that at 62%.

That's not strictly surprising — after all, across more than 1,700 games (so far) you'd expect there to be natural clusters of repeated letters, and for everything to even itself out over time. That doesn't make it any easier to deal with, though.

As it happens, ATTIC looks like being a pretty simple Wordle to solve, with an average score of 3.6 despite the double-T in the middle of the word. However, looks may be deceptive — because today STARE left only two solutions (ATTIC and ATOLL), and that will have skewed the average.

For the rest of us, it may have played slightly harder than that, but then again both WordleBot and I scored a three, so probably not by too much.

My opening SANER gave me a yellow A just as it did on Sunday, but whereas then I followed up with FOCAL and then AUDIT, today I went straight to the latter word and got lucky with it.

It wasn't technically a great choice, given that it contains three vowels, and as you all know by now it's more helpful to uncover (or rule out) consonants. But fortune smiled upon me and it turned the A and I green, and the T yellow. That left ATTIC as the only option, giving me an average-beating three to start the week.

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 #1710, Monday 23 February: ATTIC
• Wordle #1709, Sunday 22 February: GUAVA
• Wordle #1708, Saturday 21 February: AWAKE
• Wordle #1707, Friday 20 February: STANK
• Wordle #1706, Thursday 19 February: HOIST
• Wordle #1705, Wednesday 18 February: MOGUL
• Wordle #1704, Tuesday 17 February: SQUAD
• Wordle #1703, Monday 16 February: ROOST
• Wordle #1702, Sunday 15 February: SKULL
• Wordle #1701, Saturday 14 February: BLOOM
• Wordle #1700, Friday 13 February: MOOCH
• Wordle #1699, Thursday 12 February: SURGE
• Wordle #1698, Wednesday 11 February: VEGAN
• Wordle #1697, Tuesday 10 February: SCENE
• Wordle #1696, Monday 9 February: CELLO
• Wordle #1695, Sunday 8 February: EMBED
• Wordle #1694, Saturday 7 February: BLEAT
• Wordle #1693, Friday 6 February: GAVEL
• Wordle #1692, Thursday 5 February: SWOOP
• Wordle #1691, Wednesday 4 February: CHIDE
• Wordle #1690, Tuesday 3 February: WEIGH
• Wordle #1689, Monday 2 February: CIGAR
• Wordle #1688, Sunday 1 February: SPINY
• Wordle #1687, Saturday 31 January: ALLOT
• Wordle #1686, Friday 30 January: JUMBO
• Wordle #1685, Thursday 29 January: FLAKY
• Wordle #1684, Wednesday 28 January: CRUEL
• Wordle #1683, Tuesday 27 January: DUSKY
• Wordle #1682, Monday 26 January: FREAK
• Wordle #1681, Sunday 25 January: STRUT
• Wordle #1680, Saturday 24 January: CLIFF
• Wordle #1679, Friday 23 January: BARON
• Wordle #1678, Thursday 22 January: CLINK
• Wordle #1677, Wednesday 21 January: CUBIC
• Wordle #1676, Tuesday 20 January: SULLY
• Wordle #1675, Monday 19 January: WAXEN
• Wordle #1674, Sunday 18 January: SUMAC
• Wordle #1673, Saturday 17 January: FIERY
• Wordle #1672, Friday 16 January: RACER
• Wordle #1671, Thursday 15 January: CHASM
• Wordle #1670, Wednesday 14 January: AVOID
• 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

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.