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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 #1894) - 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 #1894) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is C.
C is a very common starting letter in Wordle – in fact, it's the second most common of all, behind only S.
Wordle hints (game #1894) - 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 #1894) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is N.
N is a pretty common ending letter in Wordle: it's the seventh most likely in that position and features in 130 solutions.
Wordle hints (game #1894) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1894.
- Today's Wordle answer is a cockerel fattened for eating.
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 #1894)
- NYT average score: 4.2
- My score: 3
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 95
- My luck score: 82
- My start word performance: SANER (25 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (202)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1894) is… CAPON.
Well, here's a new word for me. CAPON is not a term I was previously familiar with — it is specifically a male chicken that's castrated to fatten it up for cooking, so not really a great life experience for the unfortunate bird, all told.
The fact that I didn't know it as a term — I'd literally never heard of it before — might easily have caused me a few problems today, but as it happened I managed to score a 3.
Others are definitely finding it more difficult, as its average of 4.2 indicates, and I can only assume that's because of its obscurity as a word. Or is that just me? Anyway, it is also another NYT addition to the game that wasn't on the original solution list, and those are usually slightly more unusual words, so in that regard it tracks.
So, how did I beat the average without knowing what I was doing?
Well, I can thank a combination of my first guess, SANER, and my second, POINT. Between them, they gave me a green A and three yellow letters, P, O and N. And surprising though it might seem, they could only be assembled to make one word.
The trouble was that I didn't recognize anything that would fit. I tried assembling them into all of the possible formations, coming up with the likes of NAPO-, NAP-O, OAP-N and so on, but nothing worked. -APON, however, at least looked like it had a typical word structure, which is at least half of the challenge.
There were technically still 20 letters that could go at the start, including repeats, but most were not realistic — AAPON, XAPON or UAPON, anyone? But a few sounded like genuine options, and CAPON was the one that rang a tiny bell somewhere in my brain.
I played it without a lot of hope but with no other ideas; I figured that even if it was wrong it would at least give me some more information, for instance I would know for sure that the N had to be at the start now.
However, I needn't have worried. All five letters turned green, I learned a new word, and I proved that you don't actually have to have a clue what the answer means in order to solve it.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1893)
In a different time zone where it's still Tuesday? Don't worry — I can give you some clues for Wordle #1893, 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 C.
C is a very common starting letter in Wordle – in fact, it's the second most common of all, behind only S.
- 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 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 #1893.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is a button press.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1893)
- NYT average score: 4.2
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 99
- My luck score: 44
- My start word performance: SANER (304 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (50)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1893) was… CLICK.
If ever you needed a clear demonstration of how much difference luck can make in Wordle then consider my last two games. For each, I began with SANER and garnered a perfect skill score of 99/99 from WordleBot — but on Monday I scored a 2, here a 4.
Today's game is harder, sure — it has an average of 4.2, versus 3.8 for RUNNY on Monday — but it's not two whole guesses tougher. Again, there's a repeated letter, but here that's a C, which is slightly more likely to appear twice than an N is (29 appearances versus 23).
Both also had alternative words with only slightly different spellings, and this might be a bigger factor — you could have gone with FUNNY, BUNNY, SUNNY or PUNNY on Monday, FLICK, SLICK, CRICK, CHICK, CLOCK, CLUCK, CLACK or CLINK for this game.
In my case, I didn't have to pick between any of those options above; instead, my opening two guesses of SANER and CLOUT reduced my options to a trio of CLICK, CLIFF and CLIMB.
This left me a classic game theory dilemma: I had three equally likely choices, and could easily guarantee myself a 4 by playing a word such as FLICK — because if the F turned yellow, it would be CLIFF, if the K turned green it would be CLICK, and if neither changed color it would be CLIMB.
The other thing I could do, obviously, was to play one of the three actual possible answers. If I was right, on a 33.33% chance, I'd score a 3. If I was wrong, I'd then have a 50% chance to score a 4, and if that was wrong too I'd get a 5.
At the time, I thought that it might help if I could recall any of the three words having appeared before — but try as I might, I couldn't. Still, I checked after the game and all three had in fact been answers before: CLICK was game #134 in October 2021, CLIMB was #1020 in April 2024 and CLIFF was earlier this year, game #1680 in January.
If I'd have known that, maybe I would have gone with CLICK on the third guess; the other two seem too recent to have appeared again already. However, I chickened out and went with FLICK, and had to settle for that 4 instead.
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 #1892, Monday 24 August: CLICK
- Wordle #1892, Monday 24 August: RUNNY
- Wordle #1891, Sunday 23 August: OLDEN
- Wordle #1890, Saturday 22 August: PRAWN
- Wordle #1889, Friday 21 August: TRACE
- Wordle #1888, Thursday 20 August: MURKY
- Wordle #1887, Wednesday 19 August: GRILL
- Wordle #1886, Tuesday 18 August: STRIP
- Wordle #1885, Monday 17 August: TRIBE
- Wordle #1884, Sunday 16 August: ASPIC
- Wordle #1883, Saturday 15 August: LOOSE
- Wordle #1882, Friday 14 August: GEODE
- Wordle #1881, Thursday 13 August: CRASH
- Wordle #1880, Wednesday 12 August: WIMPY
- Wordle #1879, Tuesday 11 August: FENCE
- Wordle #1878, Monday 10 August: SNIPE
- Wordle #1877, Sunday 9 August: CLUNK
- Wordle #1876, Saturday 8 August: PRIVY
- Wordle #1875, Friday 7 August: FEIGN
- Wordle #1874, Thursday 6 August: GRIPE
- Wordle #1873, Wednesday 5 August: POSIT
- Wordle #1872, Tuesday 4 August: MOTIF
- Wordle #1871, Monday 3 August: REPLY
- Wordle #1870, Sunday 2 August: PENAL
- Wordle #1869, Saturday 1 August: SLUSH
- Wordle #1868, Friday 31 July: PURSE
- Wordle #1867, Thursday 30 July: FLUME
- Wordle #1866, Wednesday 29 July: VALVE
- Wordle #1865, Tuesday 28 July: SONAR
- Wordle #1864, Monday 27 July: POSER
- Wordle #1863, Sunday 26 July: GRAPE
- Wordle #1862, Saturday 25 July: ALOHA
- Wordle #1861, Friday 24 July: PUTTY
- Wordle #1860, Thursday 23 July: ORBIT
- Wordle #1859, Wednesday 22 July: LORRY
- Wordle #1858, Tuesday 21 July: SHILL
- Wordle #1857, Monday 20 July: DIVER
- Wordle #1856, Sunday 19 July: CHURN
- Wordle #1855, Saturday 18 July: BOOTH
- Wordle #1854, Friday 17 July: LEGAL
- Wordle #1853, Thursday 16 July: BUTTE
- Wordle #1852, Wednesday 15 July: PSHAW
- Wordle #1851, Tuesday 14 July: STEAK
- Wordle #1850, Monday 13 July: STOUT
- Wordle #1849, Sunday 12 July: CLACK
- Wordle #1848, Saturday 11 July: AVIAN
- Wordle #1847, Friday 10 July: CANAL
- Wordle #1846, Thursday 9 July: AMEND
- Wordle #1845, Wednesday 8 July: DEMON
- Wordle #1844, Tuesday 7 July: SLING
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.
