It’s time for your daily round of Wordle hints, expertly crafted to help you keep your streak going even on the toughest of days.
You might think that you don’t need any clues for Wordle today, but remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.
Below, you’ll find a selection of Wordle hints to guide you in the right direction. You don’t have to use them all, but there are five in total should you need them, covering vowels, starting letter, ending letter and more. 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, which remains the best of all the main Wordle alternatives.
SPOILER WARNING: Wordle hints and today’s answer are below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to see them.
Wordle hints (game #725) – 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 #725) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is C.
C is a very common starting letter in Wordle – in fact, it’s the second most common of all, behind only S.
Wordle hints (game #725) – 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 #725) – 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 #725) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #725.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a wrongdoing.
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 #725)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #725) is… CRIME.
With an average score of just 3.6, according to WordleBot, this is the easiest Wordle we’ve had since BEAST 10 days ago. And as with that word, it’s easy to see why: it has a classic two-vowels-and-three-consonants structure, starts with one of the most common starting letters, ends with one of the most common ending letters and has no pesky complicating factors such as a repeated or uncommon letter.
It’s also a word where some of the best Wordle starting words will have been hugely helpful. If you played CRANE, you had just four remaining solutions left for your second guess: CRIME, CREME, CREPE and CRUDE. If you went with TRACE or CRATE, you only had five. CARTE left six. Admittedly, not every word worked so well – my own selection, STARE, left 52 possibles – but the average will be lower than usual all the same.
While my opening guess wasn’t hugely fortunate, my third one certainly was. Between those two, I played POUND – a word I chose because I was gambling on the fact that the answer had the structure -R–E. Among the possible words that fit that format were PRUDE, PRIME, PROBE, PROVE, DRIVE, DROVE and DRONE, so I made sure to include P and D in there, plus a couple of new vowels. If it hadn’t been a -R–E word, well then I’d have been in trouble.
Luckily for me, it was – and PROUD cut my solutions list down to 11. But then I had an even bigger slice of luck, because my third guess, CRIME, was correct!
I hadn’t expected that at all – I just thought it was another good narrowing-down word, because my options list included CRIME, GRIME, BRIBE, CREME and MERGE – so lots of of Cs, Ms and Is there… I fully expected a 4/6 but somehow ended up with a 3/6 instead when I didn’t entirely deserve it.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #724)
In a different time zone where it’s still Tuesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #724, too.
- Wordle yesterday had a vowel in one place.
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was P.
- There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was K.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer means to set down suddenly.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #724)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #724) was… PLUNK.
Now, this is an interesting one. PLUNK has a higher than average score of 4.1, according to WordleBot, and is a word that I really didn’t expect to be an answer. In fact, I didn’t entirely know that it was a word.
I suspect this might be a British vs American English thing; various dictionaries including Merriam-Webster state that PLUNK means either “to set yourself down” or “to pluck [an instrument] so as to make a hollow sound”. The second one might well be the case – although it wasn’t a definition I was aware of. But the first one… well, I’d usually say PLONK as in “plonk yourself down over there”. And indeed, a quick search shows that ‘plonk’ is the chiefly British version of PLUNK.
That theory is also borne out by WordleBot’s results for the game. On the second guess, as many people went for PLONK as PLUNK and on the third the variant spelling still garnered 3% of all guesses (against 7% for the U version).
So I was at a disadvantage today, as will be many other people who aren’t in the United States. That may be a factor in the relatively high score, because it’s not a particularly difficult word otherwise. The letters are mostly quite common, with the obvious exception of the K, but that is actually quite a regularly visitor to the final spot in a Wordle answer, so even that isn’t too uncommon.
One thing that does make it more difficult is that few of the best Wordle starting words were very helpful here. SLATE, the best of all options, left 49 possible solutions, while the most popular choice, ADIEU, left 246. My pick – STARE – was at a rather hefty 318, on account of it failing to uncover any letters at all.
My usual strategy when that happens is to either play COULD or CLOUD next. Today I went with COULD – which is what WordleBot would also have done. This gave me a green O and a yellow L, and narrowed down my options to just eight.
I was in a good place now, then, and came up with six of those eight myself: FLUNG, FLUNK, FLUFF, BLUFF, PLUMP and PLUMB. The two I missed were the answer, PLUNK, plus FLUKY.
Based on the six that I had, I decided that PLUMB was the best choice – though in this regard I was wrong. By not including an F I was potentially leaving myself with a choice of four answers, still, whereas playing FLUNG would have guaranteed no worse than a 50/50 next go.
Still, it didn’t matter. PLUMB gave me a green P and a green L and left me with just one possible solution. The only trouble was that I couldn’t find it. And not for want of trying! I looked for at least 20 minutes but couldn’t find any words that fit. Finally, I decided that PLUNK must be the answer even though I wasn’t sure it was a real word, so I played it and was relieved when it gave me a 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 #724, Tuesday 13 June: PLUNK
- Wordle #723, Monday 12 June: WRONG
- Wordle #722, Sunday 11 June: GUARD
- Wordle #721, Saturday 10 June: AGAIN
- Wordle #720, Friday 9 June: BALSA
- Wordle #719, Thursday 8 June: CRUMB
- Wordle #718, Wednesday 7 June: HATER
- Wordle #717, Tuesday 6 June: SCOUT
- Wordle #716, Monday 5 June: ENNUI
- Wordle #715, Sunday 4 June: BEAST
- Wordle #714, Saturday 3 June: NANNY
- Wordle #713, Friday 2 June: HUMID
- Wordle #712, Thursday 1 June: JAZZY
- Wordle #711, Wednesday 31 May: AGILE
- Wordle #710, Tuesday 30 May: KNEEL
- Wordle #709, Monday 29 May: MOUSE
- Wordle #708, Sunday 28 May: SKIMP
- Wordle #707, Saturday 27 May: RAMEN
- Wordle #706, Friday 26 May: SWINE
- Wordle #705, Thursday 25 May: BAGEL
- Wordle #704, Wednesday 24 May: UTTER
- Wordle #703, Tuesday 23 May: CLERK
- Wordle #702, Monday 22 May: IGLOO
- Wordle #701, Sunday 21 May: BRASH
- Wordle #700, Saturday 20 May: FLASK
- Wordle #699, Friday 19 May: GRIEF
- Wordle #698, Thursday 18 May: SHORN
- Wordle #697, Wednesday 17 May: PLANK
- Wordle #696, Tuesday 16 May: LATTE
- Wordle #695, Monday 15 May: CANOE
- Wordle #694, Sunday 14 May: SCARF
- Wordle #693, Saturday 13 May: ACRID
- Wordle #692, Friday 12 May: SNACK
- Wordle #691, Thursday 11 May: BROOM
- Wordle #690, Wednesday 10 May: ETHIC
- Wordle #689, Tuesday 9 May: COCOA
- Wordle #688, Monday 8 May: AGLOW
- Wordle #687, Sunday 7 May: GHOUL
- Wordle #686, Saturday 6 May: ANGER
- Wordle #685, Friday 5 May: BELOW
- Wordle #684, Thursday 4 May: GUPPY
- Wordle #683, Wednesday 3 May: HORDE
- Wordle #682, Tuesday 2 May: SULKY
- Wordle #681, Monday 1 May: RANGE
- Wordle #680, Sunday 30 April: PLAZA
- Wordle #679, Saturday 29 April: CEDAR
- Wordle #678, Friday 28 April: CIRCA
- Wordle #677, Thursday 27 April: LOGIC
- Wordle #676, Wednesday 26 April: METRO
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.