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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 #1634) - 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 #1634) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is 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.
Wordle hints (game #1634) - 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 #1634) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is 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.
Wordle hints (game #1634) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1634.
- Today's Wordle answer is slyly disparaging, as in a remark.
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 #1634)
- NYT average score: 3.8
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 88
- My luck score: 60
- My start word performance: SANER (16 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (36)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1634) is… SNIDE.
I really should have scored a three today, but messed up my second guess and had to settle for a four. That's particularly annoying because the average today is 3.8, and I never like to 'lose' to it.
SNIDE is not an easy word though – that average of 3.8 is essentially in the middle of the range for Wordle, and it plays like that too. The letters are all common, yes, but there are just too damn many S---E words to narrow down.
You want facts? I would be happy to oblige. S---E is the most common of all starting-and-ending-letter combinations, with 74 instances across the original word list. S-I-E, meanwhile is the third most likely for those three characters – behind (you guessed it) S-A-E and S-O-E.
All of which meant that although my initial SANER gave me the S, N and E, and ruled out the A and R, I still had 16 possible solutions. That's not too many, but it's more than you would often get with a green and two yellows on the first guess.
I only came up with nine of the possible answers: SNIDE, SNIPE, SCONE, SHONE, STONE, SINGE, SWINE, SPINE and SHINE. The ones I missed include some very common ones, such as SCENT, SPENT, SCENE and SPEND, which points to my having been far too focused on the E being at the end of the word, rather than in the middle.
That wasn't the reason why I didn't score a three, though – my narrowing-down word just wasn't good enough. I went with THING, which ruled out 14 of the options, but it still let me a 50/50 between SNIDE and SNIPE, whereas WordleBot told me later that INEPT would have left me only SNIDE and a guaranteed three.
Instead, I played SNIPE first and had to go with SNIDE on the fourth attempt. Frustrating.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1633)
In a different time zone where it's still Monday? Don't worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1633, 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 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.
- 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 Y.
Y is the second most common ending letter in the game, behind only E. In total, 364 Wordle answers end with a Y.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1633.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is a sauce.
Yesterday'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
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1633) was… 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. 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.
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 #1633, Monday 8 December: GRAVY
- 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
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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