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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.
Don't think you need any clues for Wordle today? No problem, just skip to my daily column. But remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.
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 #1412) - 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 #1412) - 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 #1412) - 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 #1412) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is T.
T is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – in fact only E and Y are more likely in that position.
Wordle hints (game #1412) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1412.
- Today's Wordle answer is proficient or expert.
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 #1412)
- NYT average score: 3.5
- My score: 5
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 75
- My luck score: 53
- My start word performance: DRIED (43 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: CRANE (107)
- Tomorrow's start word: HABIT
Today's Wordle answer (game #1412) is… ADEPT.
Oh dear. If I was a little unlucky yesterday, then today my poor score was all my own fault.
And that's frustrating because ADEPT is not a particularly tough Wordle. WordleBot says it has an average score of 3.5, making it one of the easiest in weeks.
Nor is that a surprise; letter wise, it has three very common and two fairly common ones, plus the most popular start word, ADIEU, once again made major inroads towards solving it. Yesterday, it left only two possible solutions, today it was five – but you'd still expect to get home in three guesses with that kind of a start.
My opener, DRIED, was pretty decent itself (albeit not in the same league as ADIEU) and left 43 options. But that was about as good as it got for me.
My second guess was LODGE, which was… fine. Not great, but not terrible. It didn't turn either of my yellow letters green, and still left eight answers.
I found six – SEEDY, NEEDY, WEEDY, HEADY, BEADY and BENDY – but immediately dismissed WEEDY, because that was an answer last week and I didn't need to consult a past Wordle answers list to remember that.
With those words in mind, I played BEADY – which might have left a 50/50, but which would otherwise give me the solution.
However, I'd missed two words, and one of them was ADEPT (the other, less likely, was EDEMA). That meant that my logic was skewed and this really hurt me on the next guess.
BEADY reduced my possible answers list to two, but the trouble was these were the two I hadn't found, ADEPT and EDEMA. But for some ridiculous reason I thought AMEND was an option – even though I already knew D could not be at the end.
If I hadn't made that mistake, I'm sure I'd have looked a little longer, found ADEPT, and scored a four. As it was I needed one more guess, and had to endure the 'Bot pointing out my mistake. What an idiot.
How did you do today? Send me an email or let me know in the comments.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1411)
In a different time zone where it's still Wednesday? Don't worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1411, 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 I.
I is only the 19th most common starting letter in Wordle, and just 34 of the original 2,309 answers begin with it.
- 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 #1411.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is a lazy person.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1411)
- NYT average score: 4.2
- My score: 5
- WordleBot's score: 5
- My skill score: 68
- My luck score: 62
- My start word performance: SHREW (186 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: CRANE (191)
- Tomorrow's start word: DRIED
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1411) was… IDLER.
Told you there would be an ER word soon!
Yes, after 41 games (not the longest ever gap ever, but not far off it) we have another example of Wordle's most-hated format. Well, most hated by some; I have my own Wordle nemesis, in the form of OO words.
And it's a difficult one, as they almost always are. Maybe not as difficult as I made it seem, admittedly, but WordleBot matched my five, and it's not often that we both score so poorly.
The overall average of 4.2 is actually misleading, because the most popular of all of the best Wordle start words, ADIEU, left only two possible solutions. That word is played by around 7% of all Wordlers, so that will have massively skewed the result; for everyone else, I reckon it will have played more like a 4.5 or 4.6 answer.
What happened to me? Well, it was a mixed bag. My skill score of only 68 might tell part of the story – it definitely wasn't a perfect game for me – but was also massively unfair, I think. See what you reckon.
I began with an average result for SHREW, which gave me a yellow R and green E and left 186 possibles.
Next up, I played VALOR – which might seem slightly odd, but there was a strategy behind it.
I strongly suspected that it was an ER word, but the E was already green, so I could leave that out. I needed to turn the R green too, though, so playing it at the end made sense. I'd want a couple of vowels – so A and O – and a common letter in L. And the V? Well, I was aware that V is a strangely common letter among ER words, so figured I'd try it.
WordleBot said it was a "wonderful" choice and also incredibly lucky, and it cut my shortlist to four. However, as is often the case, I had not found them all.
And here's where I take issue with the 'Bot. My list had two: RULER and TILER. WordleBot's had four: RULER, MILER, FILER and IDLER.
So what gives there? I hadn't already played T, so why was TILER not an option? And were the far less common words FILER and MILER considered good choices instead? TILER is a perfectly acceptable word – and in fact it even appears in WordleBot's own list of the best start words, and fairly high up! It's madness.
With the two words that I had identified, playing RULER made sense. It was wrong, sure, but I was able to play TILER next for what I thought would be a four.
Only that was wrong too. So I looked again and spotted IDLER, and had to settle for that five. But frustratingly, the 'Bot awarded me only a 55/99 skill score for RULER and 35/99 for TILER – and as I said above, it didn't include TILER among its possible answers.
So in summary: difficult word, not a great game by me, but THE BOT IS BEING TOTALLY UNFAIR WITH MY SKILL SCORE. But by all means tell me below if you think I'm just being a sore loser.
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 #1411, Wednesday 30 April: IDLER
- Wordle #1410, Tuesday 29 April: BLISS
- Wordle #1409, Monday 28 April: DUMMY
- Wordle #1408, Sunday 27 April: WEEDY
- Wordle #1407, Saturday 26 April: CLASH
- Wordle #1406, Friday 25 April: KNOWN
- Wordle #1405, Thursday 24 April: GENIE
- Wordle #1404, Wednesday 23 April: OZONE
- Wordle #1403, Tuesday 22 April: ARTSY
- Wordle #1402, Monday 21 April: SPATE
- Wordle #1401, Sunday 20 April: PATCH
- Wordle #1400, Saturday 19 April: INBOX
- Wordle #1399, Friday 18 April: DIRGE
- Wordle #1398, Thursday 17 April: STOOD
- Wordle #1397, Wednesday 16 April: MORAL
- Wordle #1396, Tuesday 15 April: ASHEN
- Wordle #1395, Monday 14 April: CREST
- Wordle #1394, Sunday 13 April: LAUGH
- Wordle #1393, Saturday 12 April: NURSE
- Wordle #1392, Friday 11 April: ARROW
- Wordle #1391, Thursday 10 April: TURBO
- Wordle #1390, Wednesday 9 April: WHEAT
- Wordle #1389, Tuesday 8 April: SPARE
- Wordle #1388, Monday 7 April: HAZEL
- Wordle #1387, Sunday 6 April: VILLA
- Wordle #1386, Saturday 5 April: FOAMY
- Wordle #1385, Friday 4 April: KRILL
- Wordle #1384, Thursday 3 April: SHEAR
- Wordle #1383, Wednesday 2 April: CURSE
- Wordle #1382, Tuesday 1 April: JEWEL
- Wordle #1381, Monday 31 March: BOOTY
- Wordle #1380, Sunday 30 March: QUOTA
- Wordle #1379, Saturday 29 March: SORRY
- Wordle #1378, Friday 28 March: VERSE
- Wordle #1377, Thursday 27 March: SHEET
- Wordle #1376, Wednesday 26 March: ELBOW
- Wordle #1375, Tuesday 25 March: SHELF
- Wordle #1374, Monday 24 March: ANGLE
- Wordle #1373, Sunday 23 March: DOPEY
- Wordle #1372, Saturday 22 March: AMBLE
- Wordle #1371, Friday 21 March: NUDGE
- Wordle #1370, Thursday 20 March: BASTE
- Wordle #1369, Wednesday 19 March: SPARK
- Wordle #1368, Tuesday 18 March: TIMER
- Wordle #1367, Monday 17 March: LASSO
- Wordle #1366, Sunday 16 March: STAMP
- Wordle #1365, Saturday 15 March: LADLE
- Wordle #1364, Friday 14 March: PIECE
- Wordle #1363, Thursday 13 March: CHASE
- Wordle #1362, Wednesday 12 March: MANGO
- Wordle #1361, Tuesday 11 March: TRACK
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 last year 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.
4. Answers are never plural.
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.
10. All answers are drawn from Wordle's list of 2,309 solutions. However…
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 4 above), but Wordle will accept it as a guess.
12. The NYT has added in some of its own words, that weren't in that list of 2,309 solutions. More will undoubtedly come over the next few years.
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