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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 #1598) - clue #1 - Vowels
How many vowels does today's Wordle have?
• Wordle today has vowels in three 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 #1598) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is A.
A is a reasonably common starting letter in Wordle: 140 games begin with this letter. It ranks 6th among starting letters, behind S, C, B, T and P.
Wordle hints (game #1598) - 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 #1598) - 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 #1598) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1598.
- Today's Wordle answer is what someone did when they finished sleeping.
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 #1598)
- NYT average score: 4.1
- My score: 3
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 77
- My luck score: 72
- My start word performance: WEIGH (52 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (38)
- Tomorrow's start word: ESTER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1598) is… AWOKE.
I was initially a little baffled as to why the average score for today's game is as high as 4.1, because on the face of it is doesn't appear to be too difficult. However, on reflection I think my own experience today is skewing my view of this, because after all AWOKE does contain two relatively uncommon letters in W and K.
Neither are uncommon in the way that Z, X, Q and J are – but compared to the likes of R, T, L and N, they're positively rare. Here's a quick reminder:
Letter | Appearances |
|---|---|
E | 1230 |
A | 975 |
R | 897 |
O | 753 |
T | 729 |
L | 716 |
I | 670 |
S | 668 |
N | 573 |
C | 475 |
U | 466 |
Y | 424 |
D | 393 |
H | 387 |
P | 365 |
M | 316 |
G | 310 |
B | 280 |
F | 229 |
K | 210 |
W | 194 |
V | 152 |
Z | 40 |
X | 37 |
Q | 29 |
J | 27 |
So, between them K and W appear 404 times – which is fewer than the likes of Y or C do on their own, or less than half of R.
Neither features in any of the most popular start words, either, which may also have played a part in that relatively high average. But for once, my randomly chosen start word really came up trumps today.
On most days, WEIGH would be a decent first guess rather than a good one, but here it performed very well indeed by giving me that W right away, and with an E too. Sure, it still left 52 options – but yesterday I had more than 1,100 to deal with, so in that context it was a huge success.
I figured that the W would probably go second, after an S or T, and came up with SWEAR, SWEDE, SWEET, SWEEP, SWEPT, SWORE and TWEET for that format. But then I remembered that an ER word was also a possibility, so looked again and added the likes of TOWER, ROWER, LOWER, COWER, POWER and MOWER.
That ER format scared me, so I played TOWER and crossed my fingers that it wouldn't be one from that list; nobody wants a letter trap on a Monday morning. But when the R turned gray and the W and E stayed yellow, that option was ruled out – along with all of the other words on my shortlist.
The only three options that were left were AWOKE, ELBOW and ENDOW, but I'll admit that I never thought of the last of those. I did find the other two, though, and got lucky when I plumped for AWOKE and scored a three.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1597)
In a different time zone where it's still Sunday? Don't worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1597, too.
- Wordle yesterday had 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).
- The first letter in yesterday's Wordle answer was 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.
- 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 D.
D is a fairly common letter to end a Wordle answer: it's the eighth most likely to be in that position in a solution.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1597.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is extremely violent or irrationally furious.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1597)
- NYT average score: 3.8
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 97
- My luck score: 46
- My start word performance: LYMPH (1,105 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (202)
- Tomorrow's start word: WEIGH
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1597) was… RABID.
As with Saturday's MOTEL, RABID is a fairly simple Wordle with a familiar format of consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel-consonant and without any major complications to it.
Well, unless your start word was LYMPH, as mine was – in which case you'll have drawn a blank on the first guess and will have still had more than 1,100 possible answers to choose from on the second. Thanks, random word generator.
Far better to have played RAISE because that left only six options. Given that RAISE is the third most common starting word these days, that's a result that may well have skewed the average and could point to RABID being slightly harder than the 3.8 mark at which it currently sits.
Not much, though; this is not a difficult one as such, just a slightly frustrating one for me. I followed up with SANER as is now customary in this scenario and was rewarded with a green A and yellow R.
That left 10 possibilities that I'd divided into two pools: words that moved the R to the start of the word (RABID, RADIO and RATIO) and words that placed it in the middle (CARAT, TAROT, CAROB and CARGO).
That's seven of the 10, so what were the other three? RABBI and RADII, both of which I always miss due to their repeated letters clearly proving too complex for my brain to wrap itself around, plus KARAT, the alternative spelling of CARAT.
I decided to go with RATIO, because I couldn't recall it being an answer before (alas, it has – game #654) and because I'd worked out that it would rule out or in all of my shortlisted words and guarantee me a four at worst.
In reality it might have left me a 50/50 between either CARAT/KARAT or RABID/RADII, and indeed the latter scenario is the one that played out. At that stage I still hadn't thought of playing RADII, though, so I went with RABID and was fortunate to score a four.
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 #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
- Wordle #1583, Sunday 19 October: IDEAL
- Wordle #1582, Saturday 18 October: HAVEN
- Wordle #1581, Friday 17 October: GROSS
- Wordle #1580, Thursday 16 October: CATTY
- Wordle #1579, Wednesday 15 October: SPOOF
- Wordle #1578, Tuesday 14 October: FORUM
- Wordle #1577, Monday 13 October: BEARD
- Wordle #1576, Sunday 12 October: WOUND
- Wordle #1575, Saturday 11 October: STACK
- Wordle #1574, Friday 10 October: LEVER
- Wordle #1573, Thursday 9 October: HARDY
- Wordle #1572, Wednesday 8 October: ANNOY
- Wordle #1571, Tuesday 7 October: NYLON
- Wordle #1570, Monday 6 October: AMUSE
- Wordle #1569, Sunday 5 October: PLANE
- Wordle #1568, Saturday 4 October: RELAY
- Wordle #1567, Friday 3 October: SPASM
- Wordle #1566, Thursday 2 October: WIDTH
- Wordle #1565, Wednesday 1 October: SPOIL
- Wordle #1564, Tuesday 30 September: GEESE
- Wordle #1563, Monday 29 September: CIVIL
- Wordle #1562, Sunday 28 September: GOOEY
- Wordle #1561, Saturday 27 September: FRITZ
- Wordle #1560, Friday 26 September: DALLY
- Wordle #1559, Thursday 25 September: DRAPE
- Wordle #1558, Wednesday 24 September: BLUNT
- Wordle #1557, Tuesday 23 September: MOUTH
- Wordle #1556, Monday 22 September: QUILL
- Wordle #1555, Sunday 21 September: COVEN
- Wordle #1554, Saturday 20 September: DEFER
- Wordle #1553, Friday 19 September: LATER
- Wordle #1552, Thursday 18 September: KNIFE
- Wordle #1551, Wednesday 17 September: TEETH
- Wordle #1550, Tuesday 16 September: LEFTY
- Wordle #1549, Monday 15 September: ALONG
- Wordle #1548, Sunday 14 September: NOISY
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.
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