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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 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 #1633) - 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 #1633) - 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 #1633) - 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 #1633) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is Y.
Y is the second most common ending letter in the game, behind only E. In total, 364 Wordle answers end with a Y.
Wordle hints (game #1633) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1633.
- Today's Wordle answer is a sauce.
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 #1633)
- NYT average score: 4.2
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 81
- My luck score: 44
- My start word performance: SANER (83 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (60)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1633) is… GRAVY.
There are many different types of GRAVY, to the extent that two people from different parts of the world could very well be referring to completely different things when using the word. For instance, the white 'sausage gravy' found in the south of the United States is nothing like the traditional brown gravy that you get in the UK, and that is an absolute essential for a good Sunday roast dinner, whatever my kids might say.
Surely we can all agree that GRAVY makes for a fairly tough Wordle word, though – it has an average score of 4.2, marking a return to more difficult territory after several rather easy days.
There's not a huge amount wrong with the word as such, although V is a fairly uncommon letter. Instead, I think the problem relates to similarly spelled words. There are many that begin GRA, for instance – such as GRANT, GRAPH, GRAIN and GRAND, all of which were played by people today. Or it could be CRAZY, which has the -RA-Y format in common with it.
I didn't fall into either trap, but still had to settle for a 4/6 today. My opening SANER was okay, rather than great, leaving 83 words, and I cut that 11 with TRAIL on my second.
This turned my two yellow letters green, making it easier to see what those 11 words were – or rather, what some of them were. I had CRAMP, CRAZY, CRACK, FRACK, GRAPH, GRAVY and WRACK – but not BRAVO, FRAUD, BRAVA or DRAMA.
That definitely could have made life harder for me after I played CRAMP next, because technically it left me a four-way choice of BRAVO, BRAVA, FRAUD and GRAVY. But because the latter was the only one of that quartet that I'd thought of, I was able to play it in blissful ignorance and escape unscathed.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1632)
In a different time zone where it's still Sunday? Don't worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1632, 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 F.
F is a very common starting letter in Wordle. It ranks seventh behind only S, C, B, T, P and A and overall there are 135 solutions that begin with this letter.
- 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 E.
E is the most common letter to end a Wordle answer by far. That's one of the reasons why many of the best start words, including SLATE, CRANE, CRATE and STARE, all end with one.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1632.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is a musical instrument.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1632)
- NYT average score: 3.3
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 2
- My skill score: 94
- My luck score: 42
- My start word performance: SANER (182 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (3)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1632) was… FLUTE.
I've never played the FLUTE, but then I don't have a good track record with musical instruments in general. The only one I ever tried to learn, at school, was the recorder when I was about five or six years old, and after a couple of lessons the music teacher politely suggested I might want to try something else in a way that I now know was shorthand for "You are absolutely terrible, never again sully the mood in my cathedral of music!" I've never really got over it.
Of course none of that stopped me spotting FLUTE hiding among the letters on today's Wordle board, because it's not a particularly difficult word to find.
That -L--E format is incredibly common, with 39 occurrences among the original 2,309 solutions, and though there are only five of them that end in ---TE, one of those is SLATE – which is of course one of the most popular start words.
That fact alone has almost certainly brought down the average considerably, because anyone who started with SLATE will have had only three words to choose from – FLUTE, GLUTE or ELITE, I think, although given that I didn't begin with that I can't confirm it. Whatever the words were, the 'Bot picked the right one and duly scored a two today.
I had to settle for a four, well below the average of 3.3, but then my start word SANER left a much larger pool of 182 options. I'm sticking with SANER for now, by the way, because I got a bit bored of playing a random opener each day. I may choose a different word soon, but either way I like the idea of sticking with one for at least a couple of weeks at a time.
SANER gave me only an E, but with L and T as-yet unplayed I came very close to going with PLATE next – which probably would have given me a three if I had done. Instead, I tried something a little different and went with ELOPE, in order to immediately rule out (or in) the possibility of a repeated E. In one sense this was a waste, because it gave me only four distinct letters, but in another it was sensible, simply because repeated Es are so common in the game.
WordleBot liked it rather than loved it, awarding me 86 for skill, but it did the job in cutting down 182 words to six, all of which I found: GLIDE, FLUTE, FLUKE, CLIME, FLUME and GLUTE.
None of those options would have been guaranteed to give me the answer, but most would have left a 50/50 at worst. I went with GLUTE in the end, and when the final four letters turned green it meant I'd avoided the need for a fifth attempt, because FLUTE was now the only possible solution.
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 #1632, Sunday 7 December: FLUTE
- Wordle #1631, Saturday 6 December: WAIST
- Wordle #1630, Friday 5 December: WAIST
- Wordle #1629, Thursday 4 December: TULIP
- Wordle #1628, Wednesday 3 December: HASTE
- Wordle #1627, Tuesday 2 December: CACTI
- Wordle #1626, Monday 1 December: LEACH
- Wordle #1625, Sunday 30 November: MUGGY
- Wordle #1624, Saturday 29 November: GRUFF
- 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
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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