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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.
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.
Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief and has been obsessed with Wordle for more than three years. He's authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar and its sister site Tom's Guide, including a detailed analysis of the most common letters in Wordle in every position and a guide to the best Wordle start words. He's also played every Wordle ever and only lost once and yes, he takes it all too seriously.
Wordle hints (game #1607) - clue #1 - Vowels
How many vowels does today's Wordle have?
• Wordle today has vowels in three 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 #1607) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is D.
D is the ninth most common starting letter in the game, so maybe slightly less likely than you might expect.
Wordle hints (game #1607) - clue #3 - repeated letters
Does today's Wordle have any repeated letters?
• There are 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 #1607) - 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 #1607) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1607.
- Today's Wordle answer is a word used in cards or tennis.
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 #1607)
- NYT average score: 3.8
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 92
- My luck score: 56
- My start word performance: WINCH (51 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (120)
- Tomorrow's start word: WHITE
Today's Wordle answer (game #1607) is… DEUCE.
For the second day in a row I was given a start word containing a W, I and H – in this case WINCH after yesterday's WIGHT. It wasn't quite as lucky as yesterday's was, leaving 51 options, but that was still a lot better than many of the top choices, not least SLATE (120) and STARE (107). Then again, CRANE and AUDIO both left 19 and ADIEU 21, so it's all relative.
You might well have wanted a good start word today, because DEUCE is another fairly tricky one, although its average score of 3.8 doesn't really reflect that. I suspect the good results for those ultra-popular opening words will have pulled this down from around the 4.0/4.1 level that it probably justifies.
There's a repeated letter, of course, albeit a very common one in the form of an E. And there's the fact that outside of tennis isn't not a word that's used all that often.
After my decent start word gave me a green C, I was in search of a second guess that would do the following: rule in or out a K or E, which might well go after the C, and rule in or out L and R, which both seemed like good candidates for the second position in the word for options such as BRACE and PLACE.
The best word I could find to do that was LAKER – which I didn't really expect to be accepted but which I tried anyway on the off chance. And lo and behold, it was accepted.
Not that it helped that much: I was wrong about the K, wrong about the L, wrong about the R and wrong about the A. Still, I got the E at least.
Remarkably, that left only four possibles, but I only found one – EJECT. And trust me, it took me an age to come up with even that one. The others, according to the 'Bot, were BOCCE (really?), EDUCE (really?) and DEUCE (fair enough).
I played EJECT expecting it to be right, and was stunned when it wasn't. After another scour of the board I worked out that it could be DEUCE and was grateful when that was confirmed.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1606)
In a different time zone where it's still Tuesday? Don't worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1606, 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 G.
G is the eighth most common starting letter, featuring in 115 Wordle answers. It's often paired with an R to make GR--- or an L to make GL---, but I'm not revealing whether that's the case today.
- There were no 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 O.
O is a middling ending letter. It ranks 12th in this regard, and finishes 58 Wordle answers in total.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1606.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is a gadget.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1606)
- NYT average score: 4.5
- My score: 3
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 95
- My luck score: 79
- My start word performance: WIGHT (19 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (315)
- Tomorrow's start word: WINCH
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1606) was… GIZMO.
GIZMO is a great word for several reasons. One, it means a gadget – and here at TechRadar we love gadgets. Two, it's the name of one of the lead characters – or rather creatures – in Gremlins, the 1980s Christmas comedy-horror classic, a film I absolutely love. And three, it gave me a comfortably average-beating score of 3/6 whereas WordleBot had to settle for a four. Hurrah!
For many people, it will prove a tough nut to crack. It has an average score of 4.5, implying that it's only a little easier than yesterday's really tough TABBY, and that's not solely down to the Z in the middle (though it is partly down to that, no doubt). The O at the end is also pretty uncommon, even more so the MO combination – which is only found in one of Wordle's 2,309 original solutions.
That's not this one, though – because this is a non-original answer, added by the dastardly NYT in order to (presumably) make the game more difficult. The original one, in case you're wondering, was PRIMO – which was the answer to game #361 in June 2022.
I didn't play particularly well to solve it in three guesses – instead, there was a lot of luck involved.
My opening guess was WIGHT, which I didn't have a huge amount of hope for but which left me with only 19 possible solutions. The majority of the words I found featured the G in position #4, directly before an E – for instance DIRGE, BILGE, SINGE, BINGE, SIEGE and LIEGE. I also had a few with a GO (LINGO, BINGO, DINGO) plus DINGY and PIGGY. And then there was GIVEN, which put the G at the start – the only word I could think of that did (well, that did that and was a possible answer at this stage).
Despite the G being more likely elsewhere, I went with that G-at-the-start approach next, playing GLOBE. This was because it was the best word I could find to narrow down my options, by virtue of it including the L, O, B and E that appeared in many of them.
And as luck would have it, that G turned green. And even more fortunately, the O also turned yellow – which left only one word.
I hadn't found that word yet, of course, but after sifting through the possibilities for GI-O and GI--O I came up with GIZMO. With nothing else occuring to me, I played it – and trust me, I was as surprised as anyone when it proved to be correct.
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 #1606, Tuesday 11 November: GIZMO
- Wordle #1605, Monday 10 November: TABBY
- Wordle #1604, Sunday 9 November: FUGUE
- Wordle #1603, Saturday 8 November: ARISE
- Wordle #1602, Friday 7 November: PERIL
- Wordle #1601, Thursday 6 November: GUISE
- Wordle #1600, Wednesday 5 November: SHORT
- Wordle #1599, Tuesday 4 November: VENUE
- Wordle #1598, Monday 3 November: AWOKE
- Wordle #1597, Sunday 2 November: RABID
- Wordle #1596, Saturday 1 November: MOTEL
- Wordle #1595, Friday 31 October: ABHOR
- Wordle #1594, Thursday 30 October: LATHE
- Wordle #1593, Wednesday 29 October: GLARE
- Wordle #1592, Tuesday 28 October: HOLLY
- Wordle #1591, Monday 27 October: FETID
- Wordle #1590, Sunday 26 October: PLUMP
- Wordle #1589, Saturday 25 October: GAUGE
- Wordle #1588, Friday 24 October: TUBER
- Wordle #1587, Thursday 23 October: DRILL
- Wordle #1586, Wednesday 22 October: STUNT
- Wordle #1585, Tuesday 21 October: DETOX
- Wordle #1584, Monday 20 October: LIMBO
- Wordle #1583, Sunday 19 October: IDEAL
- Wordle #1582, Saturday 18 October: HAVEN
- Wordle #1581, Friday 17 October: GROSS
- Wordle #1580, Thursday 16 October: CATTY
- Wordle #1579, Wednesday 15 October: SPOOF
- Wordle #1578, Tuesday 14 October: FORUM
- Wordle #1577, Monday 13 October: BEARD
- Wordle #1576, Sunday 12 October: WOUND
- Wordle #1575, Saturday 11 October: STACK
- Wordle #1574, Friday 10 October: LEVER
- Wordle #1573, Thursday 9 October: HARDY
- Wordle #1572, Wednesday 8 October: ANNOY
- Wordle #1571, Tuesday 7 October: NYLON
- Wordle #1570, Monday 6 October: AMUSE
- Wordle #1569, Sunday 5 October: PLANE
- Wordle #1568, Saturday 4 October: RELAY
- Wordle #1567, Friday 3 October: SPASM
- Wordle #1566, Thursday 2 October: WIDTH
- Wordle #1565, Wednesday 1 October: SPOIL
- Wordle #1564, Tuesday 30 September: GEESE
- Wordle #1563, Monday 29 September: CIVIL
- Wordle #1562, Sunday 28 September: GOOEY
- Wordle #1561, Saturday 27 September: FRITZ
- Wordle #1560, Friday 26 September: DALLY
- Wordle #1559, Thursday 25 September: DRAPE
- Wordle #1558, Wednesday 24 September: BLUNT
- Wordle #1557, Tuesday 23 September: MOUTH
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.
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.
4a. Answers are never plural.
4b. …unless they are. There have been a couple of plural words that don't end in an S or ES, including FUNGI (game #439), ATRIA (#1478) and TEETH (#1551). But S and ES plurals are definitely outlawed.
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.
10a. All answers are drawn from Wordle's list of 2,309 solutions…
10b. …unless they are not. That's because the NYT has added in some of its own words which weren't in that list of 2,309 solutions. More will undoubtedly come over the next few years.
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 4a above), but Wordle will accept it as a guess.
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