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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 #1775) - 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 #1775) - 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 #1775) - 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 #1775) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is L.
L is a really common letter to find at the end of a Wordle. There are 155 games that finish with an L, and it ranks as the fifth most likely letter there.
Wordle hints (game #1775) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1775.
- Today's Wordle answer relates to the countryside.
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 #1775)
- NYT average score: 4.2
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 98
- My luck score: 45
- My start word performance: SANER (83 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (76)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1775) is… RURAL.
Well, it has been a while since we had a Wordle with a repeated letter in… Okay, no, we've had one game without, following the double whammy of EERIE and GLOSS.
RURAL is back in EERIE territory score-wise, albeit a little easier at 4.2 compared to 4.4. But it's definitely playing harder than yesterday's QUACK.
It has a relatively uncommon construction, with that RUR format at the start being unique to the word (within Wordle at least). Plus, RU in general is not that common; there are only nine of these.
The RAL element at the end, in contrast, does turn up quite often. Many people played the likes of MURAL, VIRAL, MORAL and CORAL, all of which might well have occurred earlier simply because they don't contain that repeated R.
Indeed, that's what happened to me. My opening SANER left 83 options, and TRAIL was a "great choice" and cut that to six. I found four: CORAL, MORAL, MURAL and RURAL, missing the obvious ROYAL and the slightly less so AURAL.
The good news for me was that playing MORAL or MURAL would narrow down my options to leave only one solution, while possibly being correct. The bad news was that really they wouldn't do that — because they might actually leave a 50/50 between RURAL and AURAL, the latter of which I'd obviously not thought of.
I went with MORAL and when the M and O turned gray assumed the answer had to be RURAL. And of course, it was the solution — but really I'd picked the right one on a 50/50 without realizing it. Phew!
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1774)
In a different time zone where it's still Tuesday? Don't worry — I can give you some clues for Wordle #1774, 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 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!
- 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 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.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1774.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is an animal sound.
Yesterday'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
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1774) was… QUACK.
Unlike Monday's EERIE or Sunday's GLOSS, this 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 being right in the middle of the range:
Game | Answer | Date | My score | Average score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
16 | QUIET | Monday, 5 July 2021 | 4 | N/A |
205 | QUERY | Monday, 10 January 2022 | 4 | N/A |
296 | SQUAD | Monday, 11 April 2022 | 4 | 4.2 |
408 | QUART | Monday, 1 August 2022 | 3 | 4 |
481 | EQUAL | Thursday, 13 October 2022 | 5 | 4.1 |
487 | QUIRK | Wednesday, 19 October 2022 | 5 | 4 |
622 | SQUAT | Friday, 3 March 2023 | 3 | 3.8 |
661 | QUALM | Tuesday, 11 April 2023 | 3 | 4.1 |
784 | QUICK | Saturday, 12 August 2023 | 4 | 3.9 |
792 | QUEST | Sunday, 20 August 2023 | 3 | 3.9 |
813 | QUOTE | Sunday, 10 September 2023 | 3 | 3.6 |
859 | PIQUE | Thursday, 26 October 2023 | 4 | 4.2 |
883 | QUEUE | Sunday, 19 November 2023 | 4 | 4.1 |
887 | QUEEN | Thursday, 23 November 2023 | 4 | 3.8 |
1031 | EQUIP | Monday, 15 April 2024 | 4 | 4 |
1124 | QUITE | Wednesday, 17 July 2024 | 3 | 3.9 |
1311 | SQUID | Monday, 20 January 2025 | 4 | 3.8 |
1380 | QUOTA | Sunday, 30 March 2025 | 3 | 3.8 |
1440 | QUASH | Thursday, 29 May 2025 | 4 | 4.1 |
1457 | QUAIL | Sunday, 15 June 2025 | 5 | 3.8 |
1496 | QUAKE | Thursday, 24 July 2025 | 5 | 4.1 |
1556 | QUILL | Monday, 22 September 2025 | 4 | 4 |
1646 | QUILT | Sunday, 21 December 2025 | 5 | 4.2 |
1667 | QUARK | Sunday, 11 January 2026 | 4 | 4.1 |
1704 | SQUAD | Tuesday, 17 February 2026 | 4 | 3.8 |
1774 | QUACK | Tuesday, 28 April 2026 | 3 | 3.9 |
I managed a three, but definitely had luck on my side.
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.
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 #1774, Tuesday 28 April: QUACK
- 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
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.
