It's time for your daily round of Wordle hints, expertly crafted to help you keep your streak going even on the toughest of days.
You might think that you don't need any clues for Wordle today, but remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.
Below, you'll find a selection of Wordle hints to guide you in the right direction. You don't have to use them all, but there are five in total should you need them, covering vowels, starting letter, ending letter and more. And if you don't have time to play at all, you can see the answer, too.
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: Wordle hints and today's answer are below, so don't read on if you don't want to see them.
Wordle hints (game #797) – 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 #797) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is 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.
Wordle hints (game #797) – 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 #797) – 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 #797) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #797.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a watery expanse.
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 #797)
Today's Wordle answer (game #797) is… OCEAN.
This one could be a real opinion splitter. It's not hard either way – WordleBot says people are solving it in an average of 3.7 guesses – but for some people it will quite possibly be a 2/6, while others may well end up with a 4/6 or worse.
That's true of many games, of course, but it's particularly pronounced here, because some (but not all) of the best Wordle starting words made a massive difference today. In fact, three of the top 20 starting words (according to WordleBot) reduced the possible solutions list to just two (CRANE, CLONE and LANCE), while one (CRONE) left just a single possible answer.
My pick, STARE, was not so fortunate; I still had 110 solutions to narrow down, thanks to a yellow A and E, but with no green vowels to help place them. Fortunately, my second guess did a lot of hard work. I picked LADEN – a word chosen because it placed the A and E in their next two most common positions and added three of the most common consonants that hadn't already been ruled.
LADEN worked well. Though it only gave me a green N, by ruling out the L and D, and by narrowing down where the vowels could go, it cut my possibles list to just four. Or, in my head, two – because I found PECAN and OCEAN, but somehow missed BEGAN and VEGAN.
If I had found all four then I might have gone with BEGAN first, but I hadn't, so I didn't. I went with OCEAN and… was correct. So, that's another 3.6 for me – and a second game in a row where I beat WordleBot. Wow!
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #796)
In a different time zone where it's still Thursday? Don't worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #796, too.
- Wordle yesterday had a vowel in one place.
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was W.
- There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was Y.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is what you all are.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #796)
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #796) was… WORDY.
This is a very apt answer for Wordle, obviously. (Although, as a writer, being WORDY can be a bad thing.) Anyway, WordleBot says it has an average score of 4.1 and I found it to be among the easier puzzles we've recently had, certainly a lot more approachable than yesterday's VERVE (see below).
The W at the start is not all that common, but the other letters all are, and Y is the second most likely letter to end an answer (behind E). That said, it's not one of those games where the best Wordle starting words will have helped all that much, so your second word will have been vital.
In my case I began with STARE, and that left 123 possible solutions. However, CRONY, my serendipitous second guess, reduced that to just six. WordleBot said it would have played DOING instead – and admittedly that reduced the answer list to only four – but CRONY has worked for me multiple times, because R is very common in position #2 and if the E doesn't end the word then there's a good chance the Y will.
Better still, of the options I found only one seemed like a very likely answer. My list was WORDY, DORKY, PORKY, WORMY and LORDY; I missed ROWDY, WordleBot said. Now, if I'd have found ROWDY I might have played that for my third guess, but I might easily have still gone with WORDY. I really didn't think it would be any of the others.
As it was, WORDY seemed the viable choice, so I played that next and scored a nice, WordleBot-beating 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 #796, Thursday 24 August: WORDY
- Wordle #795, Wednesday 23 August: VERVE
- Wordle #794, Tuesday 22 August: SPICE
- Wordle #793, Monday 21 August: BEACH
- Wordle #792, Sunday 20 August: QUEST
- Wordle #791, Saturday 19 August: MAGMA
- Wordle #790, Friday 18 August: EXACT
- Wordle #789, Thursday 17 August: AMISS
- Wordle #788, Wednesday 16 August: SCRUB
- Wordle #787, Tuesday 15 August: INDEX
- Wordle #786, Monday 14 August: SNAKY
- Wordle #785, Sunday 13 August: WRATH
- Wordle #784, Saturday 12 August: QUICK
- Wordle #783, Friday 11 August: HELLO
- Wordle #782, Thursday 10 August: EMPTY
- Wordle #781, Wednesday 9 August: LOVER
- Wordle #780, Tuesday 8 August: BULLY
- Wordle #779, Monday 7 August: BROOK
- Wordle #778, Sunday 6 August: POLYP
- Wordle #777, Saturday 5 August: ANODE
- Wordle #776, Friday 4 August: CHART
- Wordle #775, Thursday 3 August: PARTY
- Wordle #774, Wednesday 2 August: BEGET
- Wordle #773, Tuesday 1 August: TENTH
- Wordle #772, Monday 31 July: STYLE
- Wordle #771, Sunday 30 July: BATHE
- Wordle #770, Saturday 29 July: CURLY
- Wordle #769, Friday 28 July: ETHOS
- Wordle #768, Thursday 27 July: DISCO
- Wordle #767, Wednesday 26 July: HEART
- Wordle #766, Tuesday 25 July: WHEEL
- Wordle #765, Monday 24 July: HOBBY
- Wordle #764, Sunday 23 July: WHALE
- Wordle #763, Saturday 22 July: FROZE
- Wordle #762, Friday 21 July: BURLY
- Wordle #761, Thursday 20 July: FLANK
- Wordle #760, Wednesday 19 July: TONIC
- Wordle #759, Tuesday 18 July: FLYER
- Wordle #758, Monday 17 July: DROOP
- Wordle #757, Sunday 16 July: TOPAZ
- Wordle #756, Saturday 15 July: CRONE
- Wordle #755, Friday 14 July: FIEND
- Wordle #754, Thursday 13 July: BARGE
- Wordle #753, Wednesday 12 July: WHIRL
- Wordle #752, Tuesday 11 July: EARTH
- Wordle #751, Monday 10 July: FOLLY
- Wordle #750, Sunday 9 July: ENTER
- Wordle #749, Saturday 8 July: COWER
- Wordle #748, Friday 7 July: DONUT
- Wordle #747, Thursday 6 July: WINDY
- Wordle #746, Wednesday 5 July: VENOM
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 2023.
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.