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.
Wordle hints (game #1326) – 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 #1326) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is T.
T is one of the most common starting letters in the game, beginning 149 of Wordle’s 2,309 answers. That gives it a ranking of fourth in the alphabet, behind only S, C and B.
Wordle hints (game #1326) – clue #3 – repeated letters
Does today’s Wordle have any repeated letters?
• There are 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 #1326) – 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 #1326) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1326.
- Today’s Wordle answer is found in the mouth.
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 #1326)
- NYT average score: 4.0
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- Best start word performance*: TRACE (23 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: RESET (146)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1326) is… TOOTH.
I had a real sense of deja vu when I saw today’s answer, but on further investigation there was no reason for it. I thought that maybe we must have had a similar word before, but BOOTH – the most obvious one – hasn’t yet been an answer, and neither has TEETH. Then I thought maybe it was another dental word, but MOUTH hasn’t appeared either, though SMILE has. GUMMY, too, if you count that. But I’m fairly sure that wasn’t the cause of my confusion.
On reflection, it’s probably the double-O that stuck with me, because I hate that format and rarely get a good score when dealing with it. This one is of course sandwiched between a pair of Ts, making it even more complicated to solve.
TOOTH is actually one of only 38 original solutions to contain a double repeat – a fact I reveal in my analysis of every Wordle answer. It’s the 20th such word to appear, so we are a little over halfway through that little sub plot.
Somewhat surprisingly, TOOTH doesn’t have a super-high average score: it’s currently at 4.0, whereas yesterday’s REVUE finished at 4.3. Those repeated letters should really have made it harder, but on the flip side both T and O are common letters in general and also very likely to be repeated. H is less common, but the TH combination at the end is a regular guest in the game.
I found one of the two Ts right at the start, when my opening guess RESET gave me a yellow one and ruled out three other common letters. The fact that I knew there was no S included was helpful, too, as it meant I didn’t need to consider ST at the start. In fact, it meant the T was very likely to go either at the start itself or at the end followed by an H.
I didn’t play for either of those next, though. I still had 100-plus words to choose from (146, to be exact), so instead went with PITHY. This had the advantage of playing the H but also a Y that might have come into the reckoning for T—Y words such as TACKY, TALLY, TANGY, TODAY, TABBY and TOADY.
PITHY was not a terrible choice, but not the best either – WordleBot rated it at 84 out of 99, whereas TITAN would have scored 99. Worse still, it was also unlucky in leaving me 13 possible answers. But I was fairly pleased, however, because I had that TH combination confirmed.
That made it easier to find most of those 13 options, although I soon realized not all were TH words as such: TOUCH and TOUGH were in there too, alongside the likes of CLOTH, MOUTH, THANK, THINK, THUMB, THONG, QUOTH, BOOTH, MONTH and LOATH.
I decided to go with TOUGH, because it would come the closest to guaranteeing me a four. And to my relief, it did that – giving me the TO–H format that left TOOTH as the only remaining solution.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1325)
In a different time zone where it’s still Monday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1325, too.
- Wordle yesterday had 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).
- 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 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 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.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1325.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a theatrical production.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1325)
- NYT average score: 4.3 (revised)
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- Best start word performance*: TRACE CRATE (42 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: WAIST (616)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1325) was… REVUE.
Here’s a slightly harder Wordle than the previous few. WordleBot, that digital expert in all things Wordle, says it has an average score of 4.2 (note – revised up to 4.3), placing it only a little below the figure for the various ER words we’ve had in recent days. In fact, if you exclude ER words from the reckoning, it’s the most difficult game of 2025 so far; you’d have to go back to MAMBO on December 29 for a tougher one.
At first glance it’s not entirely obvious why. Sure, there’s a repeated E in it – but that was also the case with the CREPE, which was solved in 3.8 guesses on average. As my analysis of every Wordle answer shows, E is by far the most likely letter to be repeated, as well being the most common letter overall and the most common at the end of a word.
You could look instead at the V. But there was a V in Saturday’s RIVET, and that also came in at 3.8. Maybe it’s the combination of repeated E and V? Well, NERVE had that format on January 1, and was still only a 4.0.
I suspect the relative obscurity of the word is a bigger factor. No, it’s not truly obscure like BORAX (I still haven’t forgiven the NYT for that one), but when most people think of the word that sounds like that they think of the type we here at TechRadar specialize in: a review, not a REVUE.
I scored a four, as did WordleBot, and I’ll consider that a victory given that for the second day in a row I crashed and burned on the first guess. WAIST could have been a useful opening in plenty of circumstances, but yesterday it left 616 options for me. That said, few of the best Wordle start words were big hits. A couple – including TRACE and CRATE – dipped under 50, but there were none of the average-skewing single-figure results we saw on Sunday.
My second guess was not particularly original; I went with CRONE, which was essentially the best start word (CRANE) with my already-gray A swapped for an O. This worked pretty well, confirming the E at the end and giving me a yellow R too. I now only had nine words left, WordleBot told me afterwards, but I only found seven: PURGE, MERGE, VERGE, VERVE, PUREE, RUPEE and REVUE. The other two were RHYME and RUBLE, the ‘Bot said. The latter would never have occurred to me, but given that RUPEE did, that’s an oversight on my part. Then again, I knew RUPEE had been a past Wordle answer, which is probably why I spotted it (then ruled it out).
The answer was now in sight. I worked out that if I played VERGE it was guaranteed to give me the answer among the words I’d found, so even though I knew it had been an answer before I played it anyway. VERGE did the trick, giving me the second E and yellow V that left only REVUE as an option.
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 #1325, Monday 3 February: REVUE
- Wordle #1324, Sunday 2 February: CHORE
- Wordle #1323, Saturday 1 February: RIVET
- Wordle #1322, Friday 31 January: TOAST
- Wordle #1321, Thursday 30 January: FALSE
- Wordle #1320, Wednesday 29 January: UDDER
- Wordle #1319, Tuesday 28 January: FEVER
- Wordle #1318, Monday 27 January: SHUNT
- Wordle #1317, Sunday 26 January: SUNNY
- Wordle #1316, Saturday 25 January: CRISP
- Wordle #1315, Friday 24 January: CREPE
- Wordle #1314, Thursday 23 January: UPPER
- Wordle #1313, Wedneday 22 January: REACH
- Wordle #1312, Tuesday 21 January: ICING
- Wordle #1311, Monday 20 January: SQUID
- Wordle #1310, Sunday 19 January: ROWER
- Wordle #1309, Saturday 18 January: SILLY
- Wordle #1308, Friday 17 January: PROSE
- Wordle #1307, Thursday 16 January: FLINT
- Wordle #1306, Wednesday 15 January: KNACK
- Wordle #1305, Tuesday 14 January: FANCY
- Wordle #1304, Monday 13 January: CLOAK
- Wordle #1303, Sunday 12 January: TOTAL
- Wordle #1302, Saturday 11 January: DINGY
- Wordle #1301, Friday 10 January: CRAWL
- Wordle #1300, Thursday 9 January: WAFER
- Wordle #1299, Wednesday 8 January: DRAFT
- Wordle #1298, Tuesday 7 January: ATLAS
- Wordle #1297, Monday 6 January: SPRIG
- Wordle #1296, Sunday 5 January: CYBER
- Wordle #1295, Saturday 4 January: RELAX
- Wordle #1294, Friday 3 January: CHEAP
- Wordle #1293, Thursday 2 January: CHOSE
- Wordle #1292, Wednesday 1 January: NERVE
- Wordle #1291, Tuesday 31 December: LEMUR
- Wordle #1290, Monday 30 December: STARE
- Wordle #1289, Sunday 29 December: MAMBO
- Wordle #1288, Saturday 28 December: DECRY
- Wordle #1287, Friday 27 December: GRAIN
- Wordle #1286, Thursday 26 December: AFFIX
- Wordle #1285, Wednesday 25 December: SHARE
- Wordle #1284, Tuesday 24 December: EAGLE
- Wordle #1283, Monday 23 December: SAUNA
- Wordle #1282, Sunday 22 December: BRAWN
- Wordle #1281, Saturday 21 December: BLADE
- Wordle #1280, Friday 20 December: FLASH
- Wordle #1279, Thursday 19 December: STRAY
- Wordle #1278, Wednesday 18 December: HEFTY
- Wordle #1277, Tuesday 17 December: SCOWL
- Wordle #1276, Monday 16 December: BOAST
- Wordle #1275, Sunday 15 December: FUNKY
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 2024.
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’ Crossword 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.