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? My Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that game, which remains the best of all the main Wordle alternatives.
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 #931) – 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 #931) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is C.
C is a very common starting letter in Wordle – in fact, it’s the second most common of all, behind only S.
Wordle hints (game #931) – 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 #931) – 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 #931) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #931.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a connector.
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 #931)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #931) is… CABLE.
This is my sixth game using a random start word, and it’s now clear that it makes a huge difference to my chances of success. That’s not exactly an earth-shattering revelation, admittedly, but it was certainly drilled home to me today.
WordleBot says CABLE has an average score of 3.7. That’s a tiny bit below yesterday’s average (see below), and in many ways it’s a similar puzzle to that one. Once again it has two vowels and three consonants, once again it ends with an E, and once again four of those letters are very common, while one (B in this case) is very slightly less so.
Yesterday I got very lucky with my second guess and scored a 3/6 despite a less-than-stellar opening. Today things were supposedly better for my first guess, but I ended up scoring a 6/6!
CABLE shouldn’t really have caused me those kind of problems – I made a few silly mistakes but suffered from a lot of bad luck. But the start word was the big problem. For proof of that, consider the results for the best Wordle starting words: SLATE left 20 options, CRANE, TRACE, CRATE, CARET and CARTE left six. Whereas mine left me with 65. Ouch!
My random choice was CHAFF, and for the third game in a row it contained a repeated letter. But whereas on the previous two days those repeated letters were useful ones – A and E – today I had two Fs. Even one is not so helpful for a start word, but to have two of them means I was essentially beginning the game with only four letters rather than five.
CHAFF did give me a green C and a yellow A, so it could have been worse. But by only ruling out two more letters, and one of them being F, I still had lots of options. I needed to work out if there was an R or T or O or I or S or N or L… but I couldn’t play them all, of course. And then there was that C – which could be followed by an H.
I agonized about what to do for a while, then played RAYON, which included four of those very common letters plus a Y; I thought there was a chance the answer could be CANNY or CANDY or similar.
This was a “wonderful choice”, said WordleBot, but an unlucky one – and indeed, it still left me with 18 answers. That pretty much guaranteed that I wouldn’t solve it in three, but a four should not have been beyond me. Things did not work out like that.
Next, I played CAUSE. I hadn’t played S or E yet and it fit the format. With hindsight, I should probably have just included S and E in a word without the C and A, in order to get more info. Or played AISLE, which left the A in but which WordleBot said would have been the most efficient guess.
Anyway, CAUSE wasn’t a disaster, but it also still let me with a bit to do: I now had three words to choose from. These were CADGE, CALVE and CABLE, but while I had spotted the first two, I’d missed the latter. That was a terrible mistake, because CABLE was by far the most likely of those three words. Plus, if I’d known there were three options, I’d possibly have played a different word to narrow them down, rather than blindly guessing.
However, blindly guessing was what I did. CADGE first, then CALVE and finally CABLE once I realized my earlier mistake. What a mess. It all added up to a 6/6 game and left me wishing I was still starting with STARE.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #930)
In a different time zone where it’s still Friday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #930, 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 L.
L is a surprisingly uncommon starting letter in Wordle. Despite being the sixth most common letter overall, it’s only ranked 12th at the beginning of a word.
- 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 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.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #930.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a sharp movement.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #930)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #930) was… LUNGE.
We’re firmly in the Wordle heartland here: LUNGE has two vowels and three consonants in a classic format with an E at the end. It contains no truly uncommon letters, no repeats, nothing to be scared of.
That probably explains why its global average, according to WordleBot, is 3.8 – and why it’s therefore some way below being a difficult game. That said, few of the best Wordle starting words had they impact they did with yesterday’s puzzle (see below), which is why most people will probably have found it harder than that one.
I say ‘few’ of the best Wordle starting words helped, because one certainly did; LANCE left players with only one answer and therefore a guaranteed 2/6 score. But LANCE is not a common opener. CLONE and PLANE, which both left three answers, and LEANT (which left eight) were also pretty handy.
My randomly chosen starting word was EATER. For the second day, this meant that I only had four letters to gain information from, rather than three. On the plus side, I got a yellow E from it. On the minus side… well, as WordleBot told me later, it was very unlucky and left me with 195 possibles. Wow!
Fortunately, my second guess was a lot more successful – and then some. I played CLING, reasoning that all five letters were common, and was spectacularly lucky. Three more letters turned yellow, and when I spent a few minutes arranging my four yellows into various combinations, I realized that they would only assemble into one word. Yes, really – I jumped from 195 to one in a single guess.
This was an unexpected result for me, because four yellows without any greens can usually make multiple words. And when I played LUNGE, I strongly suspected that I’d have missed at least one other option and would have to settle for a 4/6. But I needn’t have worried – LUNGE was indeed the only answer left, and I played it next for my 3/6.
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 #930, Friday 5 January: LUNGE
- Wordle #929, Thursday 4 January: SCANT
- Wordle #928, Wednesday 3 January: TWIRL
- Wordle #927, Tuesday 2 January: AGING
- Wordle #926, Monday 1 January: MURAL
- Wordle #925, Sunday 31 December: SALTY
- Wordle #924, Saturday 30 December: THREE
- Wordle #923, Friday 29 December: CHILD
- Wordle #922, Thursday 28 December: LEARN
- Wordle #921, Wednesday 27 December: DAISY
- Wordle #920, Tuesday 26 December: PHONE
- Wordle #919, Monday 25 December: EVOKE
- Wordle #918, Sunday 24 December: GRACE
- Wordle #917, Saturday 23 December: SLOPE
- Wordle #916, Friday 22 December: TOUCH
- Wordle #915, Thursday 21 December: BUILT
- Wordle #914, Wednesday 20 December: SMALL
- Wordle #913, Tuesday 19 December: TABLE
- Wordle #912, Monday 18 December: FUNNY
- Wordle #911, Sunday 17 December: BACON
- Wordle #910, Saturday 16 December: GLOBE
- Wordle #909, Friday 15 December: TOPIC
- Wordle #908, Thursday 14 December: WOULD
- Wordle #907, Wednesday 13 December: SPENT
- Wordle #906, Tuesday 12 December: THESE
- Wordle #905, Monday 11 December: HOUSE
- Wordle #904, Sunday 10 December: CHAIN
- Wordle #903, Saturday 9 December: SHIFT
- Wordle #902, Friday 8 December: SHARP
- Wordle #901, Thursday 7 December: SLEEP
- Wordle #900, Wednesday 6 December: WOMAN
- Wordle #899, Tuesday 5 December: YOUNG
- Wordle #898, Monday 4 December: WORST
- Wordle #897, Sunday 3 December: ADAPT
- Wordle #896, Saturday 2 December: GENRE
- Wordle #895, Friday 1 December: TAKEN
- Wordle #894, Thursday 30 November: RESIN
- Wordle #893, Wednesday 29 November: SUSHI
- Wordle #892, Tuesday 28 November: SCOPE
- Wordle #891, Monday 27 November: TAWNY
- Wordle #890, Sunday 26 November: SOLID
- Wordle #889, Saturday 25 November: GUIDE
- Wordle #888, Friday 24 November: THROW
- Wordle #887, Thursday 23 November: QUEEN
- Wordle #886, Wednesday 22 November: PIXEL
- Wordle #885, Tuesday 21 November: PIANO
- Wordle #884, Monday 20 November: CANDY
- Wordle #883, Sunday 19 November: QUEUE
- Wordle #882, Saturday 18 November: THINK
- Wordle #881, Friday 17 November: TARDY
- Wordle #880, Thursday 16 November: TRUST
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 2024.
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.