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 #1333) – 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 #1333) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is S.
S is the most common starting letter in the game, featuring in 365 of Wordle’s 2,309 answers. In fact, it’s almost twice as likely to begin an answer as the next most common starting letter, C.
Wordle hints (game #1333) – 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 #1333) – 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 #1333) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1333.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a musical composition or a numerical record of accomplishment.
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 #1333)
- NYT average score: 3.5
- My score: 2
- WordleBot’s score: 2
- My start word performance: CRUDE (6 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (5)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1333) is… SCORE.
After the most difficult Wordle in weeks comes one of the easiest. That’s not just for me, either: SCORE has an average, er, score of 3.5 across the many thousands who have so far played it.
And of course it does; all five letters are ultra-common and many are in their logical places. That fact led to stellar results for many of the best Wordle starting words, which in turn will have played a big part in that average being so low. CRANE, WordleBot’s favorite, left only five answers, as did CRATE. TRACE and STARE were at seven.
My randomly chosen opener, CRUDE, was in the middle of those, leaving six. And amazingly, WordleBot and I both turned that start into a two today.
There was luck involved, obviously, but it also made sense to play SCORE. I’d identified all six words quickly, coming up with SCORE, SCARE, OCHRE, FARCE, FORCE and SCREE. Playing any of the first three would guarantee a solve in three guesses at worst, so I was always going to choose one of that trio.
SCORE and SCARE seemed more likely than OCHRE, so it was just a question of which of those I went for. I’m not sure why I picked SCORE in the end, but I was delighted I did so when all five letters turned green. What a relief after yesterday’s horror show.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1332)
In a different time zone where it’s still Monday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1332, 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 G.
G is the eighth most common starting letter, featuring in 115 Wordle answers. It’s often paired with an L to make GL—, but I’m not revealing whether that’s the case today.
- 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 Y.
Y is the second most common ending letter in the game, behind only E. In total, 364 Wordle answers end with a Y.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1332.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a nice thing to receive.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1332)
- NYT average score: 4.9
- My score: 5
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- My start word performance: SWEPT (639 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (356)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1332) was… GOODY.
It’s been a while since we had a really difficult Wordle to dig our teeth into, but yesterday the game served up a feast of complications. GOODY currently has an average score of 4.9, making it the toughest Wordle since ROWER on January 19, and worse than the likes of FEVER (4.6), UPPER and UDDER (both 4.3).
As a measure of the challenge presented here, my score skills from WordleBot were 99 out of 99 for guess number two, 94 out of 99 for the third, 99 for the fourth and 99 for the fifth – for an overall skill score of 98 – and I still ended up with a five. What more could I have done?
Or, take the fact that only one of the top 20 best Wordle starting words, TRADE, left fewer than 300 possible solutions. Admittedly, that one cut the options to a mere 14, but TRADE is not among the most popular opening words, so it’s unlikely to have played a major factor here.
I might even suggest that today’s Wordle has my least favorite format in the game. My evidence? Well, my average from more than 1,100 games is 3.67, but among OO words it jumps to 4.19.
It’s not just me, either – the overall average from the 1,044 Wordles I have an official score for, is 3.96, but OO words are solved in 4.29 guesses. That’s a big difference. Plus, the only Wordle I ever failed was an OO word (WOOER, game #78).
The fact that the O is repeated is not in itself unlikely; after all, O is the second most common repeat in the game, behind E. Instead, I think the problem is simply that there are are so many other letter combinations that can go before or after it. We’ve had BROOK and DROOP and GOOSE and MOOSE and GLOOM and ROOMY and FLOOD and SWOON and SNOOP, plus KAZOO and IGLOO and lots more. Even just among those words you might need an R, or a K, or a P, or a G, or an M, or S, L, or D, or W, or N, or Z… just pick a consonant and try it, essentially.
There was a little more method in my madness today. I wasn’t helped by my start word, SWEPT, though; this left a mammoth 639 possible answers.
My second guess, CAROL, was “exactly what I would’ve picked”, according to WordleBot – but it still left 41 options. And among them lurked the -OUND trap, one of the worst that Wordle has. I played BOUND to rule that out as early as possible, and gained a yellow D.
This cut my shortlist to a mere seven, but I only found four of them: DODGY, DOGGY, MOODY and GOODY. I missed HOODY, which was a mistake on my part, but I’m not sure DOOZY and DOGGO are that likely.
With the words I had, DODGY was the right play for my fourth guess – it would guarantee me a solve in five. In reality, it might have left a 50/50 between MOODY and HOODY, but WordleBot agreed anyway, because there was no better option.
DODGY finally did the trick, giving me the yellow G and green Y that left GOODY as the only possible solution. So I scored my five and crossed my fingers that we won’t have another OO word any time soon.
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 #1332, Monday 10 February: GOODY
- Wordle #1331, Sunday 9 February: BONUS
- Wordle #1330, Saturday 8 February: STEEP
- Wordle #1329, Friday 7 February: SWATH
- Wordle #1328, Thursday 6 February: PUPIL
- Wordle #1327, Wednesday 5 February: PEDAL
- Wordle #1326, Tuesday 4 February: TOOTH
- 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
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.