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 #1001) – 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 #1001) – 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 #1001) – 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 #1001) – 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 #1001) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1001.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a poisonous substance.
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 #1001)
- NYT average score: 3.9
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- Best start word performance*: TRICE (11 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: CYBER (472)
* From WordleBot's Top 20 start words
Today's Wordle answer (game #1001) is… TOXIN.
The problem with random start words is that there's always the potential for annoying situations such as the one I faced today. No, not the fact that my opener, CYBER, uncovered no letters at all. Nor that it left a whopping 472 possible solutions. But rather, the realization that TOXIN was my random start word exactly one week ago.
I've never scored a 1/6, and probably never will do since I switched from always using STARE at the start of 2024, and this was a clear reminder that it will be a pleasure almost certainly denied to me.
Still, I solved it in 4/6 anyway, which isn't too bad considering the start that I had, and that TOXIN is a potentially tricky Wordle. The reason for that is the X in the middle, because X is the third least common letter in the game. It's not enough on its own to make this Wordle truly difficult – as its average score of 3.9 proves – but it could cause problems for some people.
You'll have wanted a T at the start of your first guess today, because those that did fared much better than most others. TRACE left 23 possible solutions, for instance, while TRICE was at 11 and TRAIN (just outside of WordleBot's top 20 openers) left only a single answer.
With 472 words to choose from, I was in a very different place. Getting home in four from there required a lucky second guess, and I got it with SAINT, which was exactly what WordleBot would have chosen too, and which cut the number to a quartet.
These four were UNTIL, NINTH, TOXIN and PINTO, though I will admit that I didn't come up with the latter myself. My next choice of UNTIL was therefore slightly flawed; it worked, but WordleBot pointed out that if the answer had been NINTH or PINTO I'd have had a 50/50 on the next guess.
As it was, the I turned green, which meant that TOXIN was the only word that now fit. I played that next for my 4/6.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1000)
In a different time zone where it's still Friday? Don't worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1000, 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 E.
We don't get many Wordle answers that start with an E – though it's the most common letter in the game, it's only the 14th most likely to begin a solution.
- 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 T.
T is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – in fact only E and Y are more likely in that position.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1000.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is to violently break forth.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1000)
- NYT average score: 3.7
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- Best start word performance*: TRACE (3 remaining answers)
- My start word performance: RADAR (331)
* From WordleBot's Top 20 start words
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1000) was… ERUPT.
So here we are, then – the 1,000th Wordle. And yes, as I explained on Thursday it's really the 1,001st, but we won't worry about that detail.
The New York Times is certainly celebrating today, with a raft of special events to mark the occasion, including the lighting up of the Empire State Building in Wordle colors. So, does today's game live up to that hype?
Not really. It's a fairly standard Wordle, and one which WordleBot says has an average score of 3.7. There's nothing wrong with that, but I do feel a little deflated. Couldn't the NYT have given us a really, really difficult one? Or maybe one with a word that had some connection to it being special?
Still, ERUPT is not exactly boring. The E at the start is relatively uncommon (obviously E isn't uncommon itself, but it's less likely at the beginning of an answer) and the PT ending is also fairly rare. But the letters are all regular visitors to Wordle solutions, and several of the best start words cut down the options considerably.
The best of them was TRACE, WordleBot's third favorite, which left only three answers. But CRATE (8), CARET (11), TRADE (6) and TRICE (4) were all pretty good too.
My random opener, RADAR, was a lot less helpful; it gave me only one yellow letter and left 331 options. That's not exactly a shock, given that it contains two repeats, meaning I was only able to gather information about three different letters.
My second guess, TONER, reduced that list from 331 to only 15, but WordleBot merely said it was a “good guess” and informed me rather snottily that THOSE would have been better. Chill out, 'Bot, it's your birthday!
My third guess did the business. My word list included BRUTE, ERUPT, CREPT, ERECT, METRE, LITRE and BERTH, so I decided to play the first of those in order to place the T, E and R, while also seeing if the B and U were indeed included.
The U was, but not the B – and the upshot was that I now only had one possible solution. That was ERUPT, and I played it next for my celebratory 4/6.
Wordle answers: The past 50
I've been playing Wordle every day for more than two 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 #1000, Friday 15 March: ERUPT
- Wordle #999, Thursday 14 March: SINCE
- Wordle #998, Wednesday 13 March: LOCAL
- Wordle #997, Tuesday 12 March: HEAVE
- Wordle #996, Monday 11 March: PESKY
- Wordle #995, Sunday 10 March: GRASP
- Wordle #994, Saturday 9 March: CHEER
- Wordle #993, Friday 8 March: EARLY
- Wordle #992, Thursday 7 March: CLONE
- Wordle #991, Wednesday 6 March: TEARY
- Wordle #990, Tuesday 5 March: HUNCH
- Wordle #989, Monday 4 March: FLAME
- Wordle #988, Sunday 3 March: STATE
- Wordle #987, Saturday 2 March: URBAN
- Wordle #986, Friday 1 March: FORTY
- Wordle #985, Thursday 29 February: IMAGE
- Wordle #984, Wednesday 28 February: DEVIL
- Wordle #983, Tuesday 27 February: SENSE
- Wordle #982, Monday 26 February: OFTEN
- Wordle #981, Sunday 25 February: SMITH
- Wordle #980, Saturday 24 February: PIPER
- Wordle #979, Friday 23 February: APART
- Wordle #978, Thursday 22 February: HEAVY
- Wordle #977, Wednesday 21 February: BUILD
- Wordle #976, Tuesday 20 February: MATCH
- Wordle #975, Monday 19 February: PRICE
- Wordle #974, Sunday 18 February: RIDGE
- Wordle #973, Saturday 17 February: PSALM
- Wordle #972, Friday 16 February: STASH
- Wordle #971, Thursday 15 February: ASCOT
- Wordle #970, Wednesday 14 February: TALON
- Wordle #969, Tuesday 13 February: SCRAM
- Wordle #968, Monday 12 February: PASTA
- Wordle #967, Sunday 11 February: NEVER
- Wordle #966, Saturday 10 February: FRIED
- Wordle #965, Friday 9 February: STIFF
- Wordle #964, Thursday 8 February: PLACE
- Wordle #963, Wednesday 7 February: AFTER
- Wordle #962, Tuesday 6 February: WHICH
- Wordle #961, Monday 5 February: REPEL
- Wordle #960, Sunday 4 February: VERGE
- Wordle #959, Saturday 3 February: MICRO
- Wordle #958, Friday 2 February: CLEFT
- Wordle #957, Thursday 1 February: ALIVE
- Wordle #956, Wednesday 31 January: BULKY
- Wordle #955, Tuesday 30 January: EXPEL
- Wordle #954, Monday 29 January: LEGGY
- Wordle #953, Sunday 28 January: EMBER
- Wordle #952, Saturday 27 January: SNAKE
- Wordle #951, Friday 26 January: ALOOF
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.