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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.
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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 #1747) - 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 #1747) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is 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.
Wordle hints (game #1747) - 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 #1747) - 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 #1747) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1747.
- Today's Wordle answer is effervescent.
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 #1747)
- NYT average score: 4.9
- My score: 5
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 98
- My luck score: 20
- My start word performance: SANER (304 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (315)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1747) is… FIZZY.
Anyone fancy a tough one then? Good, because that's what you've got here.
FIZZY is the equal second hardest Wordle so far in 2026, with an average score of 4.9; that's level with WAXEN and behind only GUNKY (5.2). It's also a fraction harder than DIZZY (4.8), which was an answer in February (game #1714).
I suspect the fact that F doesn't feature in the two most popular start words, ADIEU and AUDIO, is the reason why it's playing slightly harder, because obviously D does appear in those — meaning that the many people who begin with them will have had an easier time than they did today.
It doesn't take a genius to spot the problem here. Or rather, problems, because there are several. The inclusion of an uncommon letter in Z is certainly one, the inclusion of a second Z is the second. And of course there's the fact that DIZZY and TIZZY also exist as words. Both have appeared already (TIZZY back in July 2025), but some people may not have remembered them, and others may have suspected they might appear again as a repeat (which is entirely possible, albeit unlikely so soon after they first turned up).
Other words may also have played a part in bumping up that average; JIFFY, FILLY, FIFTY and FIGGY were all common guesses today.
I didn't play any of those, but instead got sidetracked by DIPPY and JIMMY. Well, I say 'sidetracked' — by the time I played JIMMY there were only three options remaining: that, FIZZY and JIFFY; I merely picked the wrong one.
I won't be the only person to end up with a five today, but it's still frustrating to fall below the average on a day when my skill score was 98/99. Or maybe this is all an April Fool and the NYT will change the word later in the day to make the answer SANER and give me the 1/6 I so obviously deserve. Yeah, maybe not…
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1746)
In a different time zone where it's still Tuesday? Don't worry — I can give you some clues for Wordle #1746, too.
- Wordle yesterday had 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).
- The first letter in yesterday's Wordle answer was S.
S is the most common starting letter in the game, featuring in 365 of Wordle's 2,309 answers. In fact, it's almost twice as likely to begin an answer as the next most common starting letter, C.
- 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 P.
P is a middling end letter in Wordle. It features in 56 answers, which places it 12th in the alphabet. Don't expect it to happen that often compared to the likes of E, Y and T.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1746.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is a wetland.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1746)
- NYT average score: 3.9
- My score: 3
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 97
- My luck score: 55
- My start word performance: SANER (42 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (31)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1746) was… SWAMP.
It's the nature of both luck and averages that they even out, and in Wordle terms that's partly because they're both so intrinsically linked.
Yesterday's game was for me a mirror opposite of Monday's; here, I barely deserved a four but scored a three, whereas Monday I played well enough to get a three but ended up with a four. Maybe I should stop making any effort and just let chance do its thing? But no, of course I won't do that, because skill does still play a role too, even if it doesn't always feel like it.
SWAMP is another Wordle of standard difficulty: it has an average score of 3.9, following 3.8 for the previous two days. There's an uncommon letter W lurking in there, and a couple of middling letters in M and P — the same ending, as I'm sure you noticed, that we had with CHUMP on Sunday. The trickiest part will have been picking it out of the morass of similarly spelled words that include SLUMP and SCAMP and STUMP and SKIMP and STOMP.
SANER performed far better yesterday than it did in the previous couple of days, cutting my shortlist to a length just about befitting the word: 42.
I thought my follow-up, CLOTH, had been unsuccessful — because it drew a blank. And yes, it could have been better, to the extent that WordleBot said it expected it to leave only three words, whereas in reality it left six. But six is a manageable number of options, and my task was made considerably easier by the fact that I only spotted three of them: SPASM, SWAMP and SQUAB.
If I'd have found all or any of the others — which were SQUAD, SWAMI and SIGMA — I might have overthought it and come up with a narrowing-down word. As it was, I played SWAMP thinking that it would guarantee me a three, when in reality it might have left me a 50/50.
That error might have resulted in me eventually scoring a five, but on this occasion fate smiled upon me when all five letters turned green, giving me my first three since BEFIT on Thursday.
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 #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
- 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
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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