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 #726) – 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 #726) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is M.
M is a middling letter when it comes to starting a word. It sits 10th in the rankings, with 107 occurrences in the 2,309 answers.
Wordle hints (game #726) – 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 #726) – 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 #726) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #726.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a possibility.
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 #726)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #726) is… MAYBE.
You wouldn’t necessarily know it to look at it, but today’s Wordle word is one of the most difficult to solve this year. Seriously – WordleBot says it’s taking people an average of 4.5 guesses to complete it, which means it’s the joint 10th hardest so far in 2023. Compare that to 3.6 for yesterday’s CRIME (see below) and it’s in a different league.
It’s not an obscure word, though, and doesn’t contain any repeated or uncommon letters. So what’s the deal? Well, my guess is that it’s all down to that misplaced Y.
Y is a fairly common letter in Wordle overall – it ranks 12th – but 85% of its appearances come at the end of a word, where it’s the second most common letter after E. You don’t generally expect to see one elsewhere, and if – as happened with me – you had a green E at the end of the answer early on, you’d almost certainly not think to play the Y until late on.
It’s also a word with lots of other options. It took me four guesses to narrow it down, for instance, and it’s hard to see how I could I have done it any more quickly without a lot more luck. There are just too many words that have that consonant-A-consonant-consonant-E structure.
Things started off fairly well for me, with a green E and yellow A from STARE, my pick of the best Wordle starting words, but it didn’t take me long to see there were actually many possible directions for my second guess. In fact, WordleBot told me after the game that I still had 46 possible solutions to pick from. That was a fair few more than SLATE (37) and CARTE (28), but far fewer than ADIEU (217) at least.
I decided not to even attempt a 2/6 and played CANDO next. Yes, CANDO. No, that’s not a word I thought would be accepted, but I wanted to put the A in the second position while including another vowel and several common consonants, and it allowed me to do so. Wordle allowed it, so I played it!
In hindsight, it wasn’t the best choice; it merely turned the A green, although by ruling out those other letters it did reduce my possible answers list to just 16. I didn’t know that at the time, and indeed I didn’t come up with that many: I had EAGLE, VALVE, VALUE, VAGUE, GAUGE, GAUZE, FABLE, WAIVE, GAFFE, MAPLE, MAYBE, MAIZE and PAYEE, but missed MAUVE, GABLE and HALVE.
Lots of mine contained an L, U and M, with B and P also cropping up, so I decided to play PLUMB – a word which Wordle described as “solid” and “lucky”. I’ll take that – not least because it gave me yellow M and yellow B to join my green A and E. I could now only see one solution – MAYBE – and played that next for a 4/6.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #725)
In a different time zone where it’s still Wednesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #725, too.
- Wordle yesterday had vowels in two places.
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was C.
- There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was E.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a wrongdoing.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #725)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #725) was… 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.
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 #725, Wednesday 14 June: CRIME
- 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
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.