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 #765) – clue #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has a vowel in one place*.
* 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 #765) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is H.
H is not a particularly common starting letter in Wordle: only 69 games begin with it, and it ranks in 15th place.
Wordle hints (game #765) – 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 #765) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is Y.
Y is the second most common ending letter in the game, behind only E. In total, 364 Wordle answers end with a Y.
Wordle hints (game #765) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #765.
- Today’s Wordle answer is an amateur interest.
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 #765)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #765) is… HOBBY.
We’re in something of a difficult run in Wordle right now. Only two of the past seven games have dipped below an average of 4, according to WordleBot, and today’s HOBBY is a way above that, coming in at 4.5.
It has all the hallmarks of a tricky answer: repeated letter, slightly less common starting letter and lots of other possible solutions that have a similar format.
The repeated letter, as is usually the case, is the most notable aspect. B is not a common letter to be repeated – only 13 Wordle words out of the original 2,309 solutions contain a repeated B; only eight contain two Bs together.
In fact, B is not all that common in general. Sure, it’s the third likeliest letter to start an answer, after S and C, but very few Bs appear elsewhere, to the extent that it’s just 18th in the hierarchy overall. H is more common in general (14th), but it’s hardly a regular visitor to Wordle answers.
To make matters worse, none of the best Wordle starting word were any help at all today. None of them. SLATE left 309 possible solutions, TRACE was at 345, SLANT at 531, CRANE at 358… Useless, all of them.
My STARE drew a blank, which meant I had 319 possible answers left. My second word, CLOUD, wasn’t much more helpful, giving me a single yellow O and nothing more. Unknown to me, it had done a lot of heavy lifting in the background though, and I now had just 22 answers to sift through.
Rather than start guessing – which seemed a tad unwise with only one yellow letter to play – I opted to play a word designed to eliminate (or uncover) some more of the most common letters. I went with NYPMH, because many of the words I’d written down – BOGGY, HOBBY, MOMMY, BONNY, POPPY, WONKY – had three consonants and a Y, with no other vowels. NYMPH enabled me to get the Y in while also packing the word with consonants, and without wasting any letters on something I’d already played.
It was a risk, but a calculated one, and it paid off. WordleBot didn’t like it (it preferred BONGO), but it gave me a yellow H and Y to go with the O.
Moreover, it left me with just one possible answer: HOBBY, which I played next for a WordleBot-equaling 4/6 on another tricky day.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #764)
In a different time zone where it’s still Sunday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #764, too.
- Wordle yesterday had vowels in two places.
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was W.
- There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was E.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a large mammal.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #764)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #764) was… WHALE.
OK, this has gone far enough – I really, really need to do some homework and learn the past Wordle answers list. In three out of the last four Wordles I’ve forgotten that one possible solution had already appeared as an answer, and in the the last two of them, it’s cost me a guess.
With yesterday’s game, I forgot that GROVE had been an answer before and played that before eventually choosing FROZE. Today, the choice was between LEAVE and WHALE and, yes, I went for the wrong one first.
In my defence, LEAVE was an answer way back in October 2022 (game #469), so it’s fair enough that I didn’t recall it. Then again, I do take this game seriously, and it is a (small) part of my job.
WHALE should really have been an easy one – WordleBot says people are solving it in just 3.4 guesses, compared to 4.9 for FROZE. But I suspect that figure is artificially low because SLATE, mathematically the best Wordle starting word overall, left just two possible answers today. Given that 3% of people began with it, you’d expect all of those to have scored a 2/6 or 3/6, thus bringing down the average.
My starter word, STARE, was not quite so successful – it left 27 possibles. But my second guess, BLIND, narrowed things down very nicely, leaving me with just those two words, LEAVE and WHALE. I honestly had no idea whether either had appeared before, so played LEAVE as the more common word and got it wrong. So, a frustrating 4/6 for me.
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 #764, Sunday 23 July: WHALE
- Wordle #763, Saturday 22 July: FROZE
- Wordle #762, Friday 21 July: BURLY
- Wordle #761, Thursday 20 July: FLANK
- Wordle #760, Wednesday 19 July: TONIC
- Wordle #759, Tuesday 18 July: FLYER
- Wordle #758, Monday 17 July: DROOP
- Wordle #757, Sunday 16 July: TOPAZ
- Wordle #756, Saturday 15 July: CRONE
- Wordle #755, Friday 14 July: FIEND
- Wordle #754, Thursday 13 July: BARGE
- Wordle #753, Wednesday 12 July: WHIRL
- Wordle #752, Tuesday 11 July: EARTH
- Wordle #751, Monday 10 July: FOLLY
- Wordle #750, Sunday 9 July: ENTER
- Wordle #749, Saturday 8 July: COWER
- Wordle #748, Friday 7 July: DONUT
- Wordle #747, Thursday 6 July: WINDY
- Wordle #746, Wednesday 5 July: VENOM
- Wordle #745, Tuesday 4 July: IRATE
- Wordle #744, Monday 3 July: HOTEL
- Wordle #743, Sunday 2 July: MOSSY
- Wordle #742, Saturday 1 July: BLEEP
- Wordle #741, Friday 30 June: STRAW
- Wordle #740, Thursday 29 June: DINER
- Wordle #739, Wednesday 28 June: TRACT
- Wordle #738, Tuesday 27 June: ABOUT
- Wordle #737, Monday 26 June: GUEST
- Wordle #736, Sunday 25 June: RODEO
- Wordle #735, Saturday 24 June: GRAND
- Wordle #734, Friday 23 June: COVET
- Wordle #733, Thursday 22 June: TASTE
- Wordle #732, Wednesday 21 June: CRANE
- Wordle #731, Tuesday 20 June: FROST
- Wordle #730, Monday 19 June: KAZOO
- Wordle #729, Sunday 18 June: SHYLY
- Wordle #728, Saturday 17 June: RANCH
- Wordle #727, Friday 16 June: STRAP
- Wordle #726, Thursday 15 June: MAYBE
- 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
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.