Wordle Guide and Hints for Today
If you’re looking for a guide to today’s Wordle answer, you’ve come to the right place. This article provides commentary on the latest puzzle, along with hints to help you keep your streak going. If you don’t need any clues, feel free to skip ahead to my daily column. But remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.
For those who enjoy word-based challenges, there are other games to explore. You can check out our Quordle today page for hints and answers, or 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 Alert: The Wordle answer and hints are below, so if you don’t want to see them, don’t read further.
Wordle Hints (Game #1492)
-
Clue #1 – Vowels: How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
Today’s Wordle has one vowel. -
Clue #2 – First Letter: What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is B. B is a very common starting letter in Wordle, ranking third overall behind S and C. -
Clue #3 – Repeated Letters: Does today’s Wordle have any repeated letters?
There are no repeated letters in today’s Wordle. While 748 of the 2,309 Wordle answers contain repeated letters, it’s still more likely that a Wordle doesn’t have any. -
Clue #4 – Ending Letter: What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
The last letter in today’s Wordle is K. K is much more common at the end of a Wordle answer than at the start. -
Clue #5 – Last Chance: Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1492.
Today’s Wordle answer is an empty space.
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 #1492)
NYT average score: 4.0
My score: 3
WordleBot’s score: 3
My skill score: 99
My luck score: 58
My start word performance: CRANE (20 remaining answers)
WordleBot’s start word performance: SLATE (22)
Tomorrow’s start word: ALIBI
Today’s Wordle answer is… BLANK
With that, my little start-word experiment is over: three games, three scores of 3/6, two tied with the ‘Bot, one beating it. So yes, I now know what I already knew – namely that if you begin each game with a very good start word (in this case CRANE), you will on average achieve better scores than if you use a random opener.
It’s not exactly rocket science, no, but it has acted as a nice reminder of the fundamentals of the game. I might well have scored a four on BLANK without the helping hand that CRANE gave me today, because it has an overall average of 4.0 at the time of writing. It’s not exactly a difficult game, but it is one where narrowing down the options will have been a challenge, simply because there are so many that differ by only a couple of letters.
Change only one letter and you can make BLAND, BLACK, BLINK, PLANK, FLANK and CLANK, which immediately complicates the process, but with two changed there are dozens. If you had the BLA combination at the start you might have tried BLADE or BLAZE or BLAST, for instance, or with BL-N- you might have gone for BLEND or BLIND or BLOND. Or, if you had the end of the word, maybe you’ll have played PRANK or CRANK or SPANK or SHANK or THANK. And that’s just a smattering of the words that were available relatively late on, and depending on which letters you’d already played.
Fortunately for me, CRANE left only 20 in total. I knew it was an –AN- word, and I knew there was no C, R or E included. An ANK or AND ending seemed most likely, although I did also find a few ANT (SLANT, PLANT) and ANG (SLANG, TWANG) words. Try as I might, I couldn’t find a perfect narrowing-down word, though. The best I could do was SPLIT – which would leave me a four-way choice at worst. WordleBot said GHOST would have been better, but only slightly, and it still would have left the same four-way split.
This being Wordle, that four-way choice was exactly the one I faced when the L turned yellow: BLAND, BLANK, FLANK and GLAND. Playing either of the latter two words might still have left a 50/50, whereas BLAND and BLANK would both guarantee me a four at worst. So I went with BLANK and was lucky enough to score a three. Sadly, it’s back to random start words from tomorrow – so I suspect threes will be thin on the ground once again.
Yesterday’s Wordle Hints (Game #1491)
In a different time zone where it’s still Saturday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1491, too.
- Vowel Count: Yesterday’s Wordle had a vowel in one place.
- First Letter: The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was S. S is the most common starting letter in the game, featuring in 365 of Wordle’s 2,309 answers.
- Repeated Letters: There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
- Ending Letter: The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was D.
- Last Chance: Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a weapon.
Yesterday’s Wordle Answer (Game #1491)
NYT average score: 3.6
My score: 3
WordleBot’s score: 4
My skill score: 94
My luck score: 64
My start word performance: CRANE (107 remaining answers)
WordleBot’s start word performance: SLATE (71)
Tomorrow’s start word: CRANE
Yesterday’s Wordle answer was… SWORD
Well, this is all a little freaky. For Friday’s game, WordleBot awarded me a skill score of 94, a luck score of 64 and reported that my opening guess (CRANE) had left 107 possible solutions. This… was exactly the same. That may well point the way to some underlying facet of the universe – a universal Wordle constant or something. Or maybe it’s just a coincidence. Either way, one thing that it definitely is, is further proof that a good start word makes all the difference.
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:
- Wordle #1491: SWORD
- Wordle #1490: LORIS
- Wordle #1489: MODAL
- Wordle #1488: NERVY
- Wordle #1487: FOIST
- Wordle #1486: UNDID
- Wordle #1485: GNOME
- Wordle #1484: EXILE
- Wordle #1483: BRAND
- Wordle #1482: JUMPY
- Wordle #1481: NOVEL
- Wordle #1480: DREAD
- Wordle #1479: STILT
- Wordle #1478: ATRIA
- Wordle #1477: BALER
- Wordle #1476: CURVE
- Wordle #1475: POPPY
- Wordle #1474: INCUR
- Wordle #1473: MOLDY
- Wordle #1472: BLINK
- Wordle #1471: WITTY
- Wordle #1470: STUMP
- Wordle #1469: PLAIN
- Wordle #1468: OFFER
- Wordle #1467: COMFY
- Wordle #1466: ELITE
- Wordle #1465: ODDLY
- Wordle #1464: THRUM
- Wordle #1463: GLADE
- Wordle #1462: TAPE
- Wordle #1461: CURIO
- Wordle #1460: MUNCH
- Wordle #1459: PRANK
- Wordle #1458: PETTY
- Wordle #1457: QUAIL
- Wordle #1456: GHOST
- Wordle #1455: BILGE
- Wordle #1454: VIXEN
- Wordle #1453: PLAID
- Wordle #1452: TAFFY
- Wordle #1451: BOARD
- Wordle #1450: LEASE
- Wordle #1449: REUSE
- Wordle #1448: EDIFY
- Wordle #1447: DATUM
- Wordle #1446: CEASE
- Wordle #1445: ADMIN
- Wordle #1444: PREEN
- Wordle #1443: ROUGH
- Wordle #1442: HABIT
- Wordle #1441: IDIOM
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 in 2022 and is still going strong in 2025.
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’ Games 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.