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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.
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 #1464) - 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 #1464) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is T.
T is one of the most common starting letters in the game, beginning 149 of Wordle's 2,309 answers. That gives it a ranking of fourth in the alphabet, behind only S, C and B.
Wordle hints (game #1464) - 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 #1464) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is M.
M is a middling ending letter: it ranks 13th in this regard, and only completes 42 Wordle answers overall.
Wordle hints (game #1464) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1464.
- Today's Wordle answer is a dull, monotonous sound.
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 #1464)
- NYT average score: 3.8
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 91
- My luck score: 45
- My start word performance: IDEAL (345 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: CRANE (106)
- Tomorrow's start word: BLESS
Today's Wordle answer (game #1464) is… THRUM.
Unless you're a Wordle nerd (a Nerdle?) like me, you will probably not realize how uncommon words that start with three consonants are in the game.
Among the 2,309 original solutions, only 50 have no vowel in the first, second or third position, which is few enough in its own right. However, more than half of those 50 use a Y instead of a standard vowel, so I'm going to discount those. After all, with a word such as STYLE (the answer to game #772), that Y is making an 'I' sound, not a more-consonant-like 'ye' as in YOUNG (#899).
Anyway, there's no Y in today's answer, so I'm not sure why I'm waffling on about it. The important point is that if you ignore those Y words, there are a mere 22 Wordle solutions that start with three consonants.
Most of these are S-words, for instance SCRAP (#336), SHRUG (#426) and STRAY (#1279). And then there are a handful of T-words, five to be exact, of which THRUM is one.
THROW (#888), THREE (#924) and THREW (#935) have all been answers already, meaning there's only one more solution to come that begins T-consonant-consonant. And no, I'm not going to tell you what it is (not least because I can't remember and don't want to look it up, because that would be cheating).
All of which is a very long-winded way of saying that THRUM is a reasonably unusual Wordle answer. It doesn't appear to be a particularly difficult one, though, because it currently has an average score of 3.8 – about standard for the game.
I had to settle for a four, due in no small part to my opening guess, IDEAL, being, well, anything but that.
IDEAL gave me zero letters and left 345 possible solutions, so the fact that my second guess, SNORT, cut that number to four was little short of a miracle.
A three was now a possibility, but only if I had a bit more luck. Oh, and I also needed some skill, but lacked that here in that I only found two of the four options – TRUCK and TRUMP. The others were THRUM, obviously, and also TRUTH – which I really, really should have thought of.
I decided to go with TRUCK and though it wasn't correct, did at least get some luck – in that it ruled out two of the other answers, leaving THRUM as the only contender. Not a great game for me all round, but not a disaster either.
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Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1463)
In a different time zone where it's still Saturday? Don't worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1463, 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 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 #1463.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is an open space among trees.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1463)
- NYT average score: 4.1
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 92
- My luck score: 41
- My start word performance: CUTIE (172 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: CRANE (49)
- Tomorrow's start word: IDEAL
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1463) was… GLADE.
GLADE is another good example of Wordle's letter-trap games, although it's a two-letter affair not a one-letter thing as with the likes of MUNCH/BUNCH/HUNCH.
I'm talking about the -LA-E format, which has 15 solutions among the original 2,309 answers, making it the fourth most common in the game for those three positions. Those ahead of it, in case you're interested, are -RA-E (which has 20 solutions), -RI-E (18) and -RO-E (16).
GLADE only has six direct alternatives (I think), in the form of BLADE, GRADE, GLIDE, GLACE, GLARE, and GLAZE. These may well have tripped you up and indeed, plenty of Wordlers did choose one of them at some stage.
But those other -LA-E words caused more trouble: PLANE, PLACE, PLATE, BLAME, FLAME, FLAKE and so on made up a huge number of the third and fourth attempts.
The game's average currently stands at 4.1 – proving that it's a tough one. To avoid a below-par score you'll have needed to have spotted the problem and played for it.
I sort of did that, but still needed a lucky guess to finish with a four. My first guess had again been poor, with CUTIE leaving 172 options, but SNARL cut that to nine.
It also gave me the --A-E format, together with a yellow L that I had a hunch would go before the A.
That gave me FLAME, FLAKE, GLADE, GLAZE, BLADE, BLAME and BLAZE, while putting L at the start provided me with LEAVE and putting it between the A and E left WHALE.
And that, miraculously and unusually, meant I had found all nine options. Maybe I'm finally learning how to play this game?
Narrowing them down was a different matter, though. I couldn't think of any word that would guarantee me a four, and neither could WordleBot. It suggested EMBED – which might have left a group of three but would otherwise solve it – whereas I went with FLAME.
FLAME was nowhere near as good as EMBED, in that it could have left a four-way choice, or a 50/50 between two other words. But it was the best I could come up with, so I played it and hoped for the best.
And, inevitably, luck was against me – because it left that four-strong group, which featured BLADE, BLAZE, GLADE and GLAZE.
I knew that the worst I could do now would be a five (because whatever I went for, it would rule out all of the others), so was free to pick my favorite. I went for GLADE because I thought the other three might all have been past Wordle answers and though it was merely a hunch, I was correct – they had.
That meant that GLADE was the only possible answer, so I duly scored my four.
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 #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
- Wordle #1417, Tuesday 6 May: SUITE
- Wordle #1416, Monday 5 May: SHUSH
- Wordle #1415, Sunday 4 May: TROUT
- Wordle #1414, Saturday 3 May: PATSY
- Wordle #1413, Friday 2 May: WHOSE
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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