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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 #1943) - clue #1 - Vowels
How many vowels does today's Wordle have?
• Wordle today has no vowels*.
* 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 #1943) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is P.
P is a very common first letter among Wordle answers. It's the fifth most common in the alphabet and begins 141 solutions in total.
Wordle hints (game #1943) - 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 #1943) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is H.
H is a regular visitor to the final spot in a Wordle word. It occurs 137 times at the end of a Wordle answer, making it the sixth most common letter there.
Wordle hints (game #1943) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1943.
- Today's Wordle answer is to mentally prepare yourself for something.
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 #1943)
- NYT average score: 3.6
- My score: 3
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 90
- My luck score: 71
- My start word performance: SANER (72 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (61)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1943) is… PSYCH.
When is a difficult Wordle not a difficult Wordle? When it's a vowel-less Wordle, of course.
PSYCH is the eighth such word to appear as an answer, and the second in just over a month. It's also the first to be added as an extra answer by the NYT; the others have all been original solutions.
Very few have been difficult; SHYLY is the only one to have crossed the 4.0 threshold and several have been far lower. Today's is in the second category, with an average score of only 3.6, making it the easiest game since TRUNK more than two weeks ago.
Game |
Answer |
Average score |
My score |
|---|---|---|---|
281 |
NYMPH |
N/A |
4 |
398 |
TRYST |
3.9 |
3 |
517 |
GLYPH |
4 |
3 |
729 |
SHYLY |
4.2 |
4 |
1264 |
CRYPT |
3.5 |
2 |
1644 |
MYRRH |
3.9 |
4 |
1909 |
DRYLY |
3.9 |
5 |
1943 |
PSYCH |
3.6 |
3 |
As to why they are easier, well, I've speculated about this before and suspect it's mostly to do with the lack of vowels immediately ruling out most options. What's more, many people open with ADIEU and AUDIO (despite them being terrible start words), and they will each have removed four of those five vowels immediately.
Ah yes, vowels. We've been here before, so to avoid a big debate about whether Y is a vowel or not: 1) technically it is sometimes a vowel and indeed it acts as one here. However, 2) for the purposes of this column I choose to refer to it as not being a vowel. And 3) in the UK, where I grew up/live it was never taught as being a vowel, or certainly not when I was at school in the 1980s. So there!
Vowels aside, PSYCH is mostly made up of very common (S, C) or common-ish (the others) letters, but it has a silent P sound that may have made it harder to solve. Well, in theory — in reality that doesn't appear to be the case.
Maybe my game is representative: I scored a 3 (and beat the 'Bot again) despite not really doing anything special.
What I did get was another big fat helping of good fortune. Today it came on the second guess, when CLOTH cut my 72 options to a single one, which might seem unlikely given that at this stage I had only one green and two yellow letters, but it's true. And yes, it did take me a while to think of PSYCH, not least because I think of it as an abbreviation rather than a real word, but after a long time spent looking for words with a U or 'I' in them, I realized that no, the only possibility was one with a Y in the middle instead.
Another interesting game and another very lucky one for me, then.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1942)
In a different time zone where it's still Tuesday? Don't worry — I can give you some clues for Wordle #1942, 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 W.
W is a fairly average letter when it comes to starting an answer. There are 82 solutions that begin with a W, with means that it ranks 13th – so right in the middle of the alphabet.
- 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 R.
R is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – it's actually the 4th most common there, behind E, Y and T.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1942.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is broader in scope, size or extent.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1942)
- NYT average score: 4.3
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 98
- My luck score: 47
- My start word performance: SANER (111 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (329)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1942) was… WIDER.
Thought you might be getting an easier one after four tricky games in a row? Think again, because WIDER has an average score of 4.3.
It is, of course, an ER word — and we all know they tend to be difficult. How difficult? Well, here are some stats for you:
- Number of ER words in the original list: 141
- Number of ER words to have appeared so far: 113
- Number of non-original ER words: 4
- Number of remaining ER words: 32 (or more)
- Average score for all Wordles: 3.97
- Average score for ER words: 4.39
- My average score for ER words: 4.0
So as you can see, ER words play 0.4 guesses harder than standard Wordles on average, and given that there have been a few easy ones, that means that many have been considerably tougher than that.
In that company, WIDER is merely annoying rather than downright dangerous. Well, unless you play on hard mode, in which case good luck!
Even on hard mode, WIDER is not the worst such word, with CIDER, RIDER and the oft-forgotten EIDER being the big red herrings to have avoided catching, or if your game played out in a different way than maybe WISER or WIPER.
Either way, it's not quite on a par with something like ROWER, which also has TOWER, POWER, LOWER, COWER and MOWER, plus a repeated letter (and which duly had an average of 5.6).
I managed a 4, the result of a fortunate first guess, SANER, which gave me the format (which is one of the reasons why I always start with it) followed by my go-to second guess in these scenarios, DIVOT, doing its thing and cutting 111 options to five.
These were easy to find at this stage: RIDER, EIDER, CIDER, HIDER, WIDER. I was not completely convinced by HIDER, so decided to look for a word that would rule out (or in) the other four. This was a very difficult task, because I couldn't think of a word that contained C and W and also started with R or E, which is what I needed here. I've since checked and there are none.
Then I had a brainwave and realized that another approach was to include two Es, which would have the effect of ruling out EIDER if one stayed gray. That allowed me to play RECCE (the 'Bot preferred RENEW, but it did the same job), which pointed the way to WIDER as the only possible solution. A fun challenge, as ER words always are.
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 #1942, Tuesday 13 October: WIDER
- Wordle #1941, Monday 12 October: YODEL
- Wordle #1940, Sunday 11 October: UNCAP
- Wordle #1939, Saturday 10 October: BUMPY
- Wordle #1938, Friday 9 October: MAJOR
- Wordle #1937, Thursday 8 October: STREW
- Wordle #1936, Wednesday 7 October: PROVE
- Wordle #1935, Tuesday 6 October: DIMLY
- Wordle #1934, Monday 5 October: MOCHA
- Wordle #1933, Sunday 4 October: SHACK
- Wordle #1932, Saturday 3 October: PEEVE
- Wordle #1931, Friday 2 October: USURY
- Wordle #1930, Thursday 1 October: RITZY
- Wordle #1929, Wednesday 30 September: RIVER
- Wordle #1928, Tuesday 29 September: SCUBA
- Wordle #1927, Monday 28 September: TRUNK
- Wordle #1926, Sunday 27 September: SLOOP
- Wordle #1925, Saturday 26 September: ELEGY
- Wordle #1924, Friday 25 September: COPSE
- Wordle #1923, Thursday 24 September: MESSY
- Wordle #1922, Wednesday 23 September: FORTH
- Wordle #1921, Tuesday 22 September: STOKE
- Wordle #1920, Monday 21 September: PAGER
- Wordle #1919, Sunday 20 September: SHONE
- Wordle #1918, Saturday 19 September: WAKEN
- Wordle #1917, Friday 18 September: SNOWY
- Wordle #1916, Thursday 17 September: THETA
- Wordle #1915, Wednesday 16 September: WISPY
- Wordle #1914, Tuesday 15 September: DEALT
- Wordle #1913, Monday 14 September: RINSE
- Wordle #1912, Sunday 13 September: FOCUS
- Wordle #1911, Saturday 12 September: NIFTY
- Wordle #1910, Friday 11 September: ASTER
- Wordle #1909, Thursday 10 September: DRYLY
- Wordle #1908, Wednesday 9 September: BURST
- Wordle #1907, Tuesday 8 September: LIVEN
- Wordle #1906, Monday 7 September: BLIND
- Wordle #1905, Sunday 6 September: BEIGE
- Wordle #1904, Saturday 5 September: SOUPY
- Wordle #1903, Friday 4 September: WAGER
- Wordle #1902, Thursday 3 September: JOIST
- Wordle #1901, Wednesday 2 September: RULER
- Wordle #1900, Tuesday 1 September: REMIX
- Wordle #1899, Monday 31 August: MOUND
- Wordle #1898, Sunday 30 August: INTEL
- Wordle #1897, Saturday 29 August: BLOOD
- Wordle #1896, Friday 28 August: TWEEN
- Wordle #1895, Thursday 27 August: UNCUT
- Wordle #1894, Wednesday 26 August: CAPON
- Wordle #1893, Tuesday 25 August: CLICK
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.
