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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 #1901) - 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 #1901) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is R.
R is a surprisingly uncommon starting letter. Despite ranking third overall in Wordle, it's merely the 11th most likely to begin an answer.
Wordle hints (game #1901) - 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 #1901) - 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 #1901) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1901.
- Today's Wordle answer is a measuring device — or a leader.
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 #1901)
- NYT average score: 3.9
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 91
- My luck score: 47
- My start word performance: SANER (111 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (98)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1901) is… RULER.
After two difficult games it's nice to have a slightly easier one — except it isn't. But then it kind of is.
Let me explain. RULER is currently being solved in an average of 3.9 guesses, which is a tiny bit below the overall average of 3.96; at worst, it's about standard. However, this is an ER word, and one that contains a repeated letter too — which you'd expect would make it a much tougher puzzle than many.
That in itself is a bit of a puzzle to me, and not one that I can solve beyond guessing that the fact that all five letters are very common made this task simpler than it would be for many ER words.
Admittedly, I didn't find it too tricky myself. I scored a 4 — which is above the average, yes, but on an ER word a 4 is generally a good result.
Of course, I have the advantage of beginning with an ER word, in the form of SANER. That gave me the final two letters and the format immediately, and left 111 options. I didn't find them all, obviously. In fact, I didn't try. But I've played enough of these by now to know that D, T and V are all common letters in ER words, the latter to a far greater extent than it is in the game at large.
That led me towards playing DIVOT, which proved an unhelpful guess given that none of the letters changed colour at all. It wasn't entirely useless — by ruling out those letters, it reduced my shortlist to 20 — but it was very, very unlucky, as my luck score of 9/99 demonstrates.
My third guess was a bit of a mess. The problem was that I had only seven of the 20 words on my shortlist: RULER, CURER, PURER, LEPER, FREER, QUEER and ULCER. Among the rather obvious options that I missed were BUYER, CHEER, FEWER, REFER, UPPER and FLYER, which seems a bit embarrassing in hindsight. Clearly I should have played another narrowing-down word, but instead I risked ULCER and this time got lucky — though it was wrong, it left only two words.
These were RULER and LUGER, apparently, but I hadn't thought of the latter and I doubt many other people did. I would say that I doubt it will ever be an answer, in fact, but who knows what might happen these days… Anyway, RULER was the only word left on my list, so I played it next for my 4.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1900)
In a different time zone where it's still Tuesday? Don't worry — I can give you some clues for Wordle #1900, 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 R.
R is a surprisingly uncommon starting letter. Despite ranking third overall in Wordle, it's merely the 11th most likely to begin an answer.
- There were no 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 X.
X is the sixth least likely ending letter in Wordle – and today's game is one of only eight in which it finishes the solution!
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1900.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is a rearranged song (typically).
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1900)
- NYT average score: 4.3
- My score: 3
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 84
- My luck score: 58
- My start word performance: SANER (125 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (329)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1900) was… REMIX.
In recent months the NYT has really stepped up the number of non-original answers it's including. We've now had 53, including this one, and of those nearly half have appeared this year. Given that the majority of the remainder were last year, it's clearly a tactic to draw out the game for longer.
Year |
Count |
|---|---|
2023 |
4 |
2024 |
6 |
2025 |
19 |
2026 |
24 |
Repeated answers are another part of the same play; presumably the bean counters at NYT Towers took a look at how much money Wordle was making and decided they didn't like the idea of it ending in October 2027, as it initially would have done. Of course, 53 additional answers and (so far) 23 repeats won't change much — it will merely end in late December or early January 2028 instead.
So, let's assume that over the next 16 months we get another 10 non-original and repeat answers per month — that would provide another 160 answers, taking us to… about June 2028. It's not that long really, and you have to assume that they'll come up with another way to prolong matters.
That also assumes that there even are enough non-original words to add. Many of the ones we've had so far have been unusual — abbreviations and slang words, often. Are there many more still to come? Repeats are easier, and they could start throwing those in a lot more liberally, essentially repeating the first year or two of the game in a different order and taking us through to maybe 2029 or 2030. And who knows what we'll all be doing by then anyway. Probably AI will be playing Wordle for us each day and we'll just check in now and again to see how it's getting on while we live a life of luxury spend our days doing whatever our new robot overlords decree.
Anyway, this game is a non-original answer and it is on the more acceptable side of these things. I have no problems with REMIX as a word — even if you don't like its modern meaning of a rejigging of a piece of music, it can also just be used to, well, re-mix something; it dates back to the 1600s, apparently, and you can imagine some servant somewhere being told they'd done a bad job with the batter for the lord's pudding and needed to re-mix it.
It's proving a tough nut to crack, with an average of 4.3. I imagine that's largely down to the presence of an X here; this is the third most uncommon letter in the game, ahead of only Q and J, and appears a mere 37 times among the 2,309 original solutions (of which this is not one, remember).
I managed another 3, somehow. I'd followed SANER with DROIT, a word I've come to like in Wordle terms, and that cut my options from 125 to four. These were RELIC, PERIL, REMIX and EERIE — although I also had REJIG and REFIX on my list, but didn't spot PERIL.
That explains why I played REMIX next; I wanted to establish if the answer started with RE, whereas the 'Bot didn't think that was necessary and gave me only 77 for skill. More importantly, it gave me 87 for luck — because my attempted narrowing down word ended up being the answer. Nice!
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 #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
- Wordle #1855, Saturday 18 July: BOOTH
- Wordle #1854, Friday 17 July: LEGAL
- Wordle #1853, Thursday 16 July: BUTTE
- Wordle #1852, Wednesday 15 July: PSHAW
- Wordle #1851, Tuesday 14 July: STEAK
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.
