Hello, and welcome to another week of Wordle words. Today’s puzzle could be quite a difficult one; although WordleBot says people are solving it in an average of 3.9 guesses, it’s not as straightforward as some.
You definitely might want some Wordle hints for it, so read on for a selection of clues to guide you in the right direction. And if you don’t have time to play at all, you can see the answer, too. Want more word-based fun? My Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about today’s Wordle answers are below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to see them.
Wordle hints (game #674) – clue #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has two 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 #674) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is D.
D is the ninth most common starting letter in the game, so maybe slightly less likely than you might expect.
Wordle hints (game #674) – clue #3 – repeated letters
Does today’s Wordle have any repeated letters?
• There is one repeated letter 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 #674) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is O.
O is a middling ending letter. It ranks 12th in this regard, and finishes 58 Wordle answers in total.
Wordle hints (game #674) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for Wordle hints today? Don’t worry, I’ll give you one more for game #674.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a repeat.
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 #674)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #674) is… DITTO.
This feels like quite a difficult answer to judge the difficulty of. WordleBot says people are solving it in an average of 3.9 guesses, and I got it in 3/6, but I had to think about it for ages.
The letters are themselves all very common: I, T and O are all in the top 10, with D in 13th. But there are a few complications to the way in which they’re used. D is not the most obvious starting letter; of the original 2,309 Wordle solutions, 111 begin with a D, so you’d expect one in less than 5% of games. O is even more unlikely at the end of an answer, where it occurs a mere 58 times.
And of course there’s a double T in it. T is the fifth most likely letter to be repeated, but two Ts together still only occurs in 21 Wordle solutions. By that measure, you’d only expect to see it around every 100 games. We were well overdue one, with PATTY (game #416) the last time this pattern turned up.
None of the best Wordle starting words were really helpful today, although some fared better than others. At the good end of the spectrum, ADIEU left just 34 possible answers, with SLATE (45), CARTE (53) and CRATE (also 53) not far behind it. But my choice of STARE left 119 answers, while CRANE was very unlucky, at 537.
I always play the same word after a single yellow T – namely, POINT. WordleBot agreed with my choice, awarding me 99/99 for skill and saying it would have played the same thing.
It also awarded me 90 for luck, because somehow it narrowed down my options from 119 to just 1! Not that I realized that for a while. POINT gave me a yellow O and yellow I to join my still-yellow T. But try as I might, I could not find a word that fit.
On multiple occasions I thought I’d solved it, then realized the word I’d come up with no longer fit: TOXIC, TONIC, TOPIC, IDIOT, DIVOT… again and again it kept happening. The only word that worked was LITHO, which seemed very unlikely to be the actual answer. I kept that in my back pocket and continued looking for a while longer, before finally stumbling across DITTO.
By this stage, I was ready to play anything, so typed in those five letters and breathed a sigh of relief when all five turned green. And no, not because I was worried I’d fail – but rather, because I’d been trying to find the solution for about 40 minutes now and needed to sleep!
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #673)
In a different time zone where it’s still Sunday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #673, too.
- Wordle yesterday had two vowels.
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was U.
- There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was P.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a means of opening something.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #673)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #673) was… UNZIP.
The Wordle gods – by which we mean the New York Times and the game’s editor, Tracy Bennett – appear to have it in for us right now. UNZIP is the sixth difficult answer in the past eight days, a sequence that started with DWELT last Saturday and includes WHIFF, HOUND, KAYAK and then yesterday’s BROKE. Each of those had an average score of at least 4.2 and today’s reaches the heady heights of 4.4.
What’s the problem here, then? Well, the Z doesn’t help. You might expect Z to be the least common letter in the game, but it’s actually only fourth worst, with Q, X and J below it. But it’s still rare to get one in Wordle, though: there are just 40 of them among the game’s 2,309 original answers. It’s been ages since we last saw one: game #585, MAIZE, back in January.
It’s not the only uncommon thing about today’s answer, either. U is a pretty rare starting letter, with just 33 games that begin with one. Oh, and a letter P at the end is pretty unlikely; there are some 56 of these.
My game started off badly, with no letters and still 318 possible solutions. I imagine many other people suffered a similar fate. SLATE, WordleBot’s pick of the best Wordle starting words, left 308 possibles, while TRACE, CRATE and CARTE all left 344. CRANE was a little better (80), and the most popular start word, ADIEU, was pretty good today: just 30 remaining for anyone who played that.
My go-to second word after a blank first guess is always either CLOUD or COULD. I went with the latter today and was disappointed to get just a single yellow U. I now had 30 possible answers, and spent a little time working out what some of them could be.
I didn’t find all 30, but I came up with about 20, many of which ended with a Y: FUNNY, BUNNY, FUNKY, PUNKY, HUNKY, MUGGY, BUGGY, MUMMY, PUPPY, BUMPY, JUNKY and so on. I also had a few that started with a U, including UNZIP, UNHIP, UNPIN and UNIFY. The Y route seemed the most likely, so I played FUNKY next. WordleBot liked it, but it only gave me a yellow N to go with the still-yellow U.
I was now down to just three possible answers, though: UNZIP, UNHIP and UNPIN. For some reason I felt like UNHIP was less likely to be an actual answer than the other two. Playing UNPIN would have been risky, though, because if the answer was one of the UNZIP or UNHIP, I’d still have had a 50/50 left and might end up with a 6/6.
UNZIP therefore made the most sense: I’d be guaranteed a 5/6 at worst this way. As it happens, it was the answer, so I escaped with a just-below-average 4/6.
Wordle answers: The past 50
I’ve been playing Wordle every day for more than a year 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 #673, Sunday 23 April: UNZIP
- Wordle #672, Saturday 22 April: BROKE
- Wordle #671, Friday 21 April: KAYAK
- Wordle #670, Thursday 20 April: PLATE
- Wordle #669, Wednesday 19 April: THUMP
- Wordle #668, Tuesday 18 April: HOUND
- Wordle #667, Monday 17 April: WHIFF
- Wordle #666, Sunday 16 April: DWELT
- Wordle #665, Saturday 15 April: AGONY
- Wordle #664, Friday 14 April: THIEF
- Wordle #663, Thursday 13 April: CARAT
- Wordle #662, Wednesday 12 April: BORAX
- Wordle #661, Tuesday 11 April: QUALM
- Wordle #660, Monday 10 April: UNDER
- Wordle #659, Sunday 9 April: SNAFU
- Wordle #658, Saturday 8 April: LEDGE
- Wordle #657, Friday 7 April: LOCUS
- Wordle #656, Thursday 6 April: LEAFY
- Wordle #655, Wednesday 5 April: SMASH
- Wordle #654, Tuesday 4 April: RATIO
- Wordle #653, Monday 3 April: FLORA
- Wordle #652, Sunday 2 April: STOCK
- Wordle #651, Saturday 1 April: MARCH
- Wordle #650, Friday 31 March: EVERY
- Wordle #649, Thursday 30 March: BREAD
- Wordle #648, Wednesday 29 March: BESET
- Wordle #647, Tuesday 28 March: HURRY
- Wordle #646, Monday 27 March: GUANO
- Wordle #645, Sunday 26 March: UNTIE
- Wordle #644, Saturday 25 March: VOTER
- Wordle #643, Friday 24 March: GROUT
- Wordle #642, Thursday 23 March: STAID
- Wordle #641, Wednesday 22 March: DUVET
- Wordle #640, Tuesday 21 March: TOUGH
- Wordle #639, Monday 20 March: GLOVE
- Wordle #638, Sunday 19 March: CREDO
- Wordle #637, Saturday 18 March: YACHT
- Wordle #636, Friday 17 March: MEALY
- Wordle #635, Thursday 16 March: CIDER
- Wordle #634, Wednesday 15 March: SWEEP
- Wordle #633, Tuesday 14 March: SURLY
- Wordle #632, Monday 13 March: BLAME
- Wordle #631, Sunday 12 March: BIRTH
- Wordle #630, Saturday 11 March: EMAIL
- Wordle #629, Friday 10 March: REVEL
- Wordle #628, Thursday 9 March: WHERE
- Wordle #627, Wednesday 8 March: REGAL
- Wordle #626, Tuesday 7 March: HORSE
- Wordle #625, Monday 6 March: PINKY
- Wordle #624, Sunday 5 March: TOXIC
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 2023.
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.