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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 #1774) - 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 #1774) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is Q.
Q is one of the least likely letters to start a Wordle answer – but then again, it's also one of the least common letters in the game anywhere!
Wordle hints (game #1774) - 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 #1774) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is K.
K is much more common at the end of a Wordle answer than at the start, and in fact ranks ninth overall in this regard.
Wordle hints (game #1774) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1774.
- Today's Wordle answer is an animal sound.
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 #1774)
- NYT average score: 3.9
- My score: 3
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 98
- My luck score: 49
- My start word performance: SANER (127 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (60)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1774) is… QUACK.
Unlike yesterday's EERIE or Sunday's GLOSS, today's Wordle doesn't contain a repeated letter. But what it does have is an uncommon letter.
Q is the second least common letter in the whole of Wordle. It only appears 29 times across the 2,309 original solutions, so a couple more than J (27), but far fewer than X (37) and Z (40), let alone the other 22 characters in the alphabet.
The majority of those 29 appearances come at the start of an answer: 23 in total, of which QUACK is the 19th, so there are theoretically only four more to come. In reality, the NYT may add some more and it may well repeat some too.
For the sake of completeness, there are also five answers which have Q in the second position: SQUAD, EQUAL, SQUAT and EQUIP have all appeared so far, as has SQUID — which wasn't in the original answer list, so there's at least one more to come there. And again, there may well be others due to repeats; SQUAD has already been duplicated, turning up as a solution in both 2022 and then February this year. Oh, and there's also one answer where Q is in position #3: PIQUE, which was the solution to game #859.
Perhaps surprisingly, these Q-containing answers aren't always that tough to solve. That's probably because anyone who uncovers a green U will know that Q has the potential to go before it, plus once you've found it there won't be many alternatives to consider.
Here's every Q word so far, with QUACK's average for today being right in the middle of the range:
I managed a three, but definitely had luck on my side today.
SANER had left 127 options, and my second guess of PLAIT cut that to eight. So far, so straightforward.
After that, though, things took a turn for the better. I only found five of those eight possible solutions: COACH, CHAFF, QUAFF, WHACK and QUACK. The ones I missed, meanwhile, were ABACK, GUAVA and FOAMY — so all likely options, albeit all three have been answers already.
What would normally happen next is that I'd play a narrowing-down word and hopefully get a four. On this occasion, though, I spotted that QUACK would do the narrowing-down job itself, while potentially being the answer too. I played it more in hope than expectation but was delighted when all five letters turned green.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1773)
In a different time zone where it's still Monday? Don't worry — I can give you some clues for Wordle #1773, too.
- Wordle yesterday had vowels in four 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 E.
We don't get many Wordle answers that start with an E – though it's the most common letter in the game, it's only the 14th most likely to begin a solution.
- 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 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 #1773.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is mysterious or strange.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1773)
- NYT average score: 4.4
- My score: 5
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 88
- My luck score: 43
- My start word performance: SANER (125 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (120)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1773) was… EERIE.
This is like a greatest hits of unusual Wordle answers: it starts with two vowels, contains only three letters in total, contains three of the same letter and features four vowels.
Let's take them one at a time so you can see just how unlikely they are individually. Two vowels at the start of a Wordle is very, very uncommon — there are only 23 of these among the 2,309 original solutions. EA is the most likely, with seven instances, while OU (5) and AU (4) aren't too far behind it. Most, including EE, have just one example.
Three letters in total occurs when you have either a double repeat (as with last week's TWEET) or a single triple letter; there are 57 of these, with roughly two-thirds of them (38) being double repeats and 19 containing a triple letter.
There's also one word — an answer which hasn't yet appeared but which presumably will do at some time — that contains a triple and a double and therefore has only two distinct letters.
Here's a list of all of the triple-letter games so far; as you can see, they're almost all on the very difficult side of things.
Game | Answer | Date | My score | Average score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2 | SISSY | Monday, 21 June 2021 | 6 | N/A |
71 | ERROR | Sunday, 29 August 2021 | 4 | N/A |
382 | FLUFF | Wednesday, 6 July 2022 | 5 | 4.7 |
491 | MUMMY | Sunday, 23 October 2022 | 6 | 5.8 |
714 | NANNY | Saturday, 3 June 2023 | 5 | 5.2 |
833 | DADDY | Saturday, 30 September 2023 | 4 | 4.9 |
878 | SASSY | Tuesday, 14 November 2023 | 6 | 5 |
1208 | MOMMY | Wednesday, 9 October 2024 | 5 | 5 |
1475 | POPPY | Thursday, 3 July 2025 | 6 | 4.8 |
1564 | GEESE | Tuesday, 30 September 2025 | 4 | 4.1 |
1773 | EERIE | Monday, 27 April 2026 | 5 | 4.4 |
Four vowels, meanwhile, is the least common of all of these strange Wordle happenings: there are only three in total in the original solutions list. And, as it happens, we've now had all three, with EERIE following AUDIO (game #802) and QUEUE (#883).
Put all that together and you have quite possibly the most unexpected Wordle word ever, purely in terms of probability. It is of course quite a common word in terms of its usage.
That helps explain why I only scored a five, although bad luck also came into it again.
My opening SANER left 125 options — not great — and my follow-up of BIPOD was merely adequate, cutting that list to 16. The 'Bot wasn't a great fan of it, and said I should have played COURT, which I'll admit was on my list but which I dismissed in favor of including an I over the U and to try to get in three consonants that might well go before an R at the start of a word.
I was barking up the wrong tree, clearly. The R didn't go in that position, but I only learned that when I played CRIME next and failed to turn it green. On the plus side, I now had only a pair of words to choose between, EERIE and RETIE. Can you guess which I picked?
Yes, for what feels like the 50th day in a row I chose the wrong one of a 50/50, so had to put up with that frustrating five. But I very much doubt I'll be the only person who struggled here.
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 #1773, Monday 27 April: EERIE
- Wordle #1772, Sunday 26 April: GLOSS
- Wordle #1771, Saturday 25 April: WOMEN
- Wordle #1770, Friday 24 April: DRUNK
- Wordle #1769, Thursday 23 April: TWEET
- Wordle #1768, Wednesday 22 April: SNORE
- Wordle #1767, Tuesday 21 April: CLUMP
- Wordle #1766, Monday 20 April: WEAVE
- Wordle #1765, Sunday 19 April: STAND
- Wordle #1764, Saturday 18 April: TOADY
- Wordle #1763, Friday 17 April: BELLE
- Wordle #1762, Thursday 16 April: CUBIT
- Wordle #1761, Wednesday 15 April: BEGUN
- Wordle #1760, Tuesday 14 April: CYCLE
- Wordle #1759, Monday 13 April: ELFIN
- Wordle #1758, Sunday 12 April: ALLEY
- Wordle #1757, Saturday 11 April: PRUDE
- Wordle #1756, Friday 10 April: CAROM
- Wordle #1755, Thursday 9 April: LADEN
- 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
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.
