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It’s time for your guide to today’s Wordle answer, featuring my commentary on the latest puzzle, plus a selection of hints designed to help you keep your streak going.
Don’t think you need any clues for Wordle today? No problem, just skip to my daily column. But remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.
Want more word-based fun? TechRadar’s Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that game, and you can also 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 WARNING: Today’s Wordle answer and hints are below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to see them.
Wordle hints (game #1469) – 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 #1469) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is P.
P is a very common first letter among Wordle answers. It’s the fifth most common in the alphabet and begins 141 solutions in total.
Wordle hints (game #1469) – 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 #1469) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is N.
N is a pretty common ending letter in Wordle: it’s the seventh most likely in that position and features in 130 solutions.
Wordle hints (game #1469) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1469.
- Today’s Wordle answer is undecorated.
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 #1469)
- NYT average score: 3.2
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- My skill score: 95
- My luck score: 39
- My start word performance: NOTCH (265 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (12)
- Tomorrow’s start word: SAVVY
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1469) is… PLAIN.
It’s been a tricky old week in Wordle, with the six games since Saturday coming in at 4.1, 3.8, 3.9, 4.1, 4.5 and 4.3. Well, today’s game is rather different.
How different? At the time of writing it has an average score of 3.2 – making it one of the easiest games all year.
Ranking | Game | Answer | Date | Average score | My score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1363 | CHASE | Thursday, 13 March 2025 | 2.9 | 4 |
2 | 1313 | REACH | Wednesday, 22 January 2025 | 3.0 | 3 |
3 | 1324 | CHORE | Sunday, 2 February 2025 | 3.1 | 4 |
4 | 1361 | TRACK | Tuesday, 11 March 2025 | 3.1 | 4 |
5 | 1395 | CREST | Monday, 14 April 2025 | 3.1 | 4 |
6 | 1339 | TRAIL | Monday, 17 February 2025 | 3.2 | 2 |
7 | 1344 | CREAM | Saturday, 22 February 2025 | 3.2 | 4 |
8 | 1469 | PLAIN | Friday, 27 June 2025 | 3.2 | 4 |
9 | 1294 | CHEAP | Friday, 3 January 2025 | 3.3 | 4 |
10 | 1342 | ROACH | Thursday, 20 February 2025 | 3.3 | 4 |
11 | 1356 | ALERT | Thursday, 6 March 2025 | 3.3 | 2 |
12 | 1360 | SPITE | Monday, 10 March 2025 | 3.3 | 3 |
13 | 1389 | SPARE | Tuesday, 8 April 2025 | 3.3 | 4 |
14 | 1453 | PLAID | Wednesday, 11 June 2025 | 3.3 | 4 |
15 | 1293 | CHOSE | Thursday, 2 January 2025 | 3.4 | 4 |
16 | 1304 | CLOAK | Monday, 13 January 2025 | 3.4 | 4 |
17 | 1308 | PROSE | Friday, 17 January 2025 | 3.4 | 3 |
18 | 1316 | CRISP | Saturday, 25 January 2025 | 3.4 | 4 |
19 | 1437 | DRONE | Monday, 26 May 2025 | 3.4 | 3 |
As you can see, easy games in general don’t always tally with easy games for me, though.
That’s at least in part because I use a random start word each day, whereas people who use the best Wordle start words – such as CRANE, SLATE and STARE – will have had a direct advantage on most of these.
After all, ‘easy’ games in many cases would better be described as ‘good games to use a popular start word for’. They usually include four or five of the most common letters – generally picked from A, E, S, T, R, L and N – in their most common positions, and with no repeats. They are not always intrinsically simpler to solve, they just align closely with the top opening picks.
CRANE, for instance, left only 12 options today, while TRAIN left five. Between them, those openers account for 4% of all Wordlers, which will have brought down the average and made the game seem easier.
That said, this is one of those cases where it should be relatively easy for everyone, regardless of what they started with. PLAIN is a very common word, and will probably have suggested itself as a narrowing-down option early on in the game.
Unfortunately for me, my first guess, NOTCH, was rather less helpful than most and left 200-plus choices. Nor did I get any good fortune with my second, SANER – which the ‘Bot rated at 94 for skill but only 10 for luck.
Still, it did gave me a yellow A to add to the yellow N I already had, and left 17 options on the shortlist. Theoretically, at least – I didn’t know that at the time and didn’t find that many.
I did find enough to known that ALIGN was a good choice, though, because it would have pointed the way to the likes of AGING, AGAIN, ADMIN, BLAND, GLAND and FLANK, plus the eventual answer, PLAIN.
And it did the trick: the L and N turned green, the I turned yellow, and the answer duly had to be PLAIN.
How did you do today? Send me an email or let me know in the comments.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1468)
In a different time zone where it’s still Thursday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1468, too.
- Wordle yesterday had 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).
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was O.
Vowels are generally less common than you’d expect at the start of a word, and O is only the 17th most likely letter to begin a Wordle answer.
- There were repeated letters in yesterday’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.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was R.
R is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – it’s actually the 4th most common there, behind E, Y and T.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1468.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is to present something for acceptance.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1468)
- NYT average score: 4.3
- My score: 2
- WordleBot’s score: 5
- My skill score: 50
- My luck score: 92
- My start word performance: TOWER (7 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: CRANE (191)
- Tomorrow’s start word: NOTCH
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1468) was… OFFER.
What a difference a day makes, eh? If Wednesday was potentially my worst ever game, yesterday’s… well, it was as easy as pie.
The silly thing is that OFFER is another pretty tough game, with an average score of 4.3, which is only slightly lower than the 4.5 for COMFY. Quite why it took me six guesses on Wednesday to do what it took me two attempts yesterday is beyond me.
As I said, OFFER is theoretically difficult, and that’s because it’s both an ER game and a repeated-letter game.
ER games have been in short supply of late, to the extent that this is only the third one in the past 100 Wordles. Given that there are 141 of them among the 2,309 original solutions, you’d expect them every 16 games – so there really should have been six in that time.
Not that I’m complaining, because they are usually difficult, and the repeated F here adds another complication. WordleBot certainly found it tough – it needed five guesses to solve it.
In my case, though, my opening TOWER left only seven possible solutions. I didn’t find that many, because several of those on the ‘Bot’s list are not realistic answers in my view: OGLER, OILER and OCHER.
I did find the other four, though: OLDER, ORDER, ODDER and OFFER. I had a hunch that OLDER and ORDER had been past Wordle answers, and this time I did check, because frankly I was so annoyed about my six the previous day that I couldn’t face another disaster.
That showed that both had been solutions – in September 2023 and June 2024 – so I had a straight 50/50 between ODDER and OFFER. The latter seemed more likely to be an answer, so I went with that and guessed correctly.
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, or check out my past Wordle answers page for the full list.
- Wordle #1468, Thursday 26 June: OFFER
- Wordle #1467, Wednesday 25 June: COMFY
- Wordle #1466, Tuesday 24 June: ELITE
- Wordle #1465, Monday 23 June: ODDLY
- Wordle #1464, Sunday 22 June: THRUM
- Wordle #1463, Saturday 21 June: GLADE
- Wordle #1462, Friday 20 June: TAUPE
- Wordle #1461, Thursday 19 June: CURIO
- Wordle #1460, Wednesday 18 June: MUNCH
- Wordle #1459, Tuesday 17 June: PRANK
- Wordle #1458, Monday 16 June: PETTY
- Wordle #1457, Sunday 15 June: QUAIL
- Wordle #1456, Saturday 14 June: GHOST
- Wordle #1455, Friday 13 June: BILGE
- Wordle #1454, Thursday 12 June: VIXEN
- Wordle #1453, Wednesday 11 June: PLAID
- Wordle #1452, Tuesday 10 June: TAFFY
- Wordle #1451, Monday 9 June: BOARD
- Wordle #1450, Sunday 8 June: LEASE
- Wordle #1449, Saturday 7 June: REUSE
- Wordle #1448, Friday 6 June: EDIFY
- Wordle #1447, Thursday 5 June: DATUM
- Wordle #1446, Wednesday 4 June: CEASE
- Wordle #1445, Tuesday 3 June: ADMIN
- Wordle #1444, Monday 2 June: PREEN
- Wordle #1443, Sunday 1 June: ROUGH
- Wordle #1442, Saturday 31 May: HABIT
- Wordle #1441, Friday 30 May: IDIOM
- Wordle #1440, Thursday 29 May: QUASH
- Wordle #1439, Wednesday 28 May: POLAR
- Wordle #1438, Tuesday 27 May: SPORT
- Wordle #1437, Monday 26 May: DRONE
- Wordle #1436, Sunday 25 May: GRIFT
- Wordle #1435, Saturday 24 May: SUEDE
- Wordle #1434, Friday 23 May: SHUCK
- Wordle #1433, Thursday 22 May: FOLIO
- Wordle #1432, Wednesday 21 May: ALARM
- Wordle #1431, Tuesday 20 May: BORNE
- Wordle #1430, Monday 19 May: PITCH
- Wordle #1429, Sunday 18 May: LIVID
- Wordle #1428, Saturday 17 May: GROWN
- Wordle #1427, Friday 16 May: FIFTH
- Wordle #1426, Thursday 15 May: EAGER
- Wordle #1425, Wednesday 14 May: BONGO
- Wordle #1424, Tuesday 13 May: AWARE
- Wordle #1423, Monday 12 May: BICEP
- Wordle #1422, Sunday 11 May: DOWEL
- Wordle #1421, Saturday 10 May: YEAST
- Wordle #1420, Friday 9 May: TRIPE
- Wordle #1419, Thursday 8 May: BALMY
- Wordle #1418, Wednesday 7 May: MACHO
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 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.
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.
12. The NYT has added in some of its own words, that weren’t in that list of 2,309 solutions. More will undoubtedly come over the next few years.
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