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 #769) – 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 #769) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is 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.
Wordle hints (game #769) – 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 #769) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is S.
S is really not a common ending letter at all – mainly because Wordle doesn’t allow plurals. It’s the 15th most likely letter to appear at the end of an answer.
Wordle hints (game #769) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #769.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a set of guiding beliefs.
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 #769)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #769) is… ETHOS.
It’s not often that we get four Wordles in a row with an average score of below 4.0, but that’s what we have after today’s game. ETHOS has an average of just 3.7, according to WordleBot – following 3.9 for DISCO yesterday (see below), 3.2 for HEART and 3.9 for WHEEL.
ETHOS was a particularly straightforward game for me, because my pick of the best Wordle starting words is always STARE, and today that left just one possible solution. Yes, that’s right – ETHOS was the only word I could have played next that might have been the answer (and indeed, was the answer).
Interestingly (to me at least), not everyone who started with STARE followed up with ETHOS, though. According to WordleBot, 12% went with ITEMS – which couldn’t have been the answer, because plural words are never solutions in Wordle. Some 5% went with CLOUD and 3% went with OTHER; I can only suppose that in those cases the players simply didn’t think of ETHOS and so played a word that would give them more information, even though it couldn’t be correct.
Admittedly, it did take me a while to come up with ETHOS myself – I knew that my letters could only be arranged in seven different ways (ETS–, -TSE-, ET-S-, -TES-, ET–S, -TE-S and -T-ES) but try as I might I couldn’t find a word that fit any of them. The problem was that I’d all but dismissed the ET–S option because S very rarely ends a Wordle; it begins 365 answers, but only finishes 36 of them. Eventually, though, I did consider that format and came up with ETHOS after a bit more thinking time.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #768)
In a different time zone where it’s still Thursday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #768, too.
- Wordle yesterday had vowels in two places.
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was D.
- There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was O.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer was chic in the ’70s.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #768)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #768) was… DISCO.
Here’s another relatively straightforward Wordle word for you, one that contains the standard two vowels and three consonants, no repeats and five pretty common letters. WordleBot says people are solving it in an average of 3.9 guesses, and that feels about right.
That said, this is one of those rare games where AUDIO – not actually one of the best Wordle starting words but always one of the most popular – will have got players off to a great start today. WordleBot says that 5% of all players began with that word, and they will have been left with just three possible solutions for their second guess – which goes some of the way towards explaining the low overall average. ADIEU was also quite helpful, leaving 34 possibles – whereas my pick (STARE) left 56 and WordleBot’s favored SLATE left 64.
Lots of the options I identified ended in a Y, for instance FISHY, PUSHY, BUSHY, FUSSY, MISSY, LOSSY, BOSSY and so on. I decided to play one of them, not because I expected to score another 2/6 but because I needed to work out if the S went in the middle, and indeed whether it contained a Y.
I was right in one regard, but not the other: the S was in the middle, but there was no Y. Still, with no Y in the answer, and with P, U and H also ruled out, I now had just four possible answers to pick from: DISCO, BISON, BOSOM and BOSON.
At which point I should confess that… I only actually found one, DISCO. Quite how I missed the three B-starting words I don’t know, but as it happened it didn’t matter, because DISCO was the answer. That’s another nice bit of luck for me, then – and a slightly undeserved 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 #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
- Wordle #745, Tuesday 4 July: IRATE
- Wordle #744, Monday 3 July: HOTEL
- Wordle #743, Sunday 2 July: MOSSY
- Wordle #742, Saturday 1 July: BLEEP
- Wordle #741, Friday 30 June: STRAW
- Wordle #740, Thursday 29 June: DINER
- Wordle #739, Wednesday 28 June: TRACT
- Wordle #738, Tuesday 27 June: ABOUT
- Wordle #737, Monday 26 June: GUEST
- Wordle #736, Sunday 25 June: RODEO
- Wordle #735, Saturday 24 June: GRAND
- Wordle #734, Friday 23 June: COVET
- Wordle #733, Thursday 22 June: TASTE
- Wordle #732, Wednesday 21 June: CRANE
- Wordle #731, Tuesday 20 June: FROST
- Wordle #730, Monday 19 June: KAZOO
- Wordle #729, Sunday 18 June: SHYLY
- Wordle #728, Saturday 17 June: RANCH
- Wordle #727, Friday 16 June: STRAP
- Wordle #726, Thursday 15 June: MAYBE
- Wordle #725, Wednesday 14 June: CRIME
- Wordle #724, Tuesday 13 June: PLUNK
- Wordle #723, Monday 12 June: WRONG
- Wordle #722, Sunday 11 June: GUARD
- Wordle #721, Saturday 10 June: AGAIN
- Wordle #720, Friday 9 June: BALSA
- Wordle #719, Thursday 8 June: CRUMB
- Wordle #718, Wednesday 7 June: HATER
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.
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