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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.
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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 #1755) - 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 #1755) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is L.
L is a surprisingly uncommon starting letter in Wordle. Despite being the sixth most common letter overall, it's only ranked 12th at the beginning of a word.
Wordle hints (game #1755) - 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 #1755) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is N.
N is a pretty common ending letter in Wordle: it's the seventh most likely in that position and features in 130 solutions.
Wordle hints (game #1755) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1755.
- Today's Wordle answer is weighed down with, or carrying, a large amount.
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 #1755)
- NYT average score: 3.6
- My score: 5
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 98
- My luck score: 40
- My start word performance: SANER (11 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (44)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1755) is… LADEN.
Hey everyone, I have a suggestion! How about we all just… forget today ever happened? You're all happy with that, right? Great, see you tomorrow then.
Except… no, I can't do that, I have to face the music and explain, somehow, the multiple poor choices I made today. I don't know how I'll do this, but it's probably something I need to do from a cathartic point of view anyway.
Okay, here goes. LADEN is another easy Wordle solution, with an average score of a mere 3.6. It contains no repeated letters, no uncommon letters, is not an ER word, doesn't even have too many similarly spelled words. It's a simple one.
All true, but somehow, inexplicably, I contrived to turn all that into a nightmare game that saw me score a five. For some reason WordleBot decided I deserved a skill score of 98, but if I was rating my own game I wouldn't go higher than about 1 or 2.
I started well, too — which only makes my subsequent performance all the more frustrating. My opening SANER cut the options to 11, and my follow-up of WAKEN wasn't itself too bad; it confirmed the -A-EN format, and left only four possibles. That said, if I'd have played TOWED I would have cut the shortlist to one, and have scored another three.
Still, a three was still within reach and a four should have been a given. The problem was that I only found two of the four possible answers: HAVEN and MAVEN. So when I played HAVEN and both were ruled out, I was a bit stumped.
Next, I searched and searched and searched and after about 15 minutes realized that EATEN fit. Now, I knew that EATEN had been an answer before, because it was the solution to game #1728 ON FRIDAY 13 MARCH THIS YEAR! Yes, less than a month ago. Was it really likely to be a repeated answer already? Of course it wasn't! But I couldn't think of anything else, so played it anyway.
And then, when that was wrong, I looked for ANOTHER 15 MINUTES until I spotted LADEN and played it for a five then slammed my laptop screen closed and stomped off to sit in the dark on my own for an hour so I could think about my poor life choices.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1754)
In a different time zone where it's still Wednesday? Don't worry — I can give you some clues for Wordle #1754, 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 I.
I is only the 19th most common starting letter in Wordle, and just 34 of the original 2,309 answers begin with it.
- 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 T.
T is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – in fact only E and Y are more likely in that position.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1754.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is an entrance, particularly for water.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1754)
- NYT average score: 3.7
- My score: 3
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 90
- My luck score: 69
- My start word performance: SANER (32 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (19)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1754) was… INLET.
This game was a tale of two relatively common combinations linked by a letter that's pretty common in the middle — all of which probably explains why INLET has a low average of 3.7.
IN is actually less likely at the start of a word than ET is at the end, a fact that surprised me slightly; there are 14 of the former and 29 of the latter. But then again, IN is one of those combos that stands out anyway, because while it may not be that likely in Wordle it occurs so often elsewhere in English.
The five letters in INLET are certainly among the most common in the game: seventh, ninth, sixth, first and fifth respectively, a fact that makes it a decent start word in its own right.
Mine is SANER of course, and this left 32 options — not quite the result I'd enjoyed in the previous two days, but still within reach of a good score.
I took a bit of a left-field approach to the second guess, playing LOGIN; I don't really know why I did this, because looking at the board again now it's clear that there were very few options that included a G — GIVEN might be the only one.
That aberration aside, it worked pretty well though, adding an L and I into the mix and leaving only two places where the N might go. That left me with three options: INLET, INTEL and INCEL, but I didn't think of either of the latter two, so played INLET without thinking too hard about it and got a three I really didn't deserve.
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 #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
- Wordle #1741, Thursday 26 March: BEFIT
- Wordle #1740, Wednesday 25 March: WISER
- Wordle #1739, Tuesday 24 March: BROOD
- Wordle #1738, Monday 23 March: SERIF
- Wordle #1737, Sunday 22 March: BASIL
- Wordle #1736, Saturday 21 March: SLICK
- Wordle #1735, Friday 20 March: OASIS
- Wordle #1734, Thursday 19 March: REHAB
- Wordle #1733, Wednesday 18 March: AMPLY
- Wordle #1732, Tuesday 17 March: CLASP
- Wordle #1731, Monday 16 March: DRAMA
- Wordle #1730, Sunday 15 March: GRADE
- Wordle #1729, Saturday 14 March: ANKLE
- Wordle #1728, Friday 13 March: EATEN
- Wordle #1727, Thursday 12 March: SMELL
- Wordle #1726, Wednesday 11 March: TEDDY
- Wordle #1725, Tuesday 10 March: SHOAL
- Wordle #1724, Monday 9 March: HASTY
- Wordle #1723, Sunday 8 March: LOBBY
- Wordle #1722, Saturday 7 March: VOGUE
- Wordle #1721, Friday 6 March: GUNKY
- Wordle #1720, Thursday 5 March: SHEEP
- Wordle #1719, Wednesday 4 March: THEFT
- Wordle #1718, Tuesday 3 March: LINEN
- Wordle #1717, Monday 2 March: SLIME
- Wordle #1716, Sunday 1 March: FLUKE
- Wordle #1715, Saturday 28 February: HYDRA
- Wordle #1714, Friday 27 February: DIZZY
- Wordle #1713, Thursday 26 February: LANCE
- Wordle #1712, Wednesday 25 February: SHRED
- Wordle #1711, Tuesday 24 February: BUYER
- 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
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.
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