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 #856) – 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 #856) – 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 #856) – 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 #856) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is O.
O is a middling ending letter. It ranks 12th in this regard, and finishes 58 Wordle answers in total.
Wordle hints (game #856) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #856.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a rate of speed.
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 #856)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #856) is… TEMPO.
I’m easily frustrated by many things in life, and Wordle is no exception. I consider it a failure if my score is below the daily average reported by WordleBot, and that’s precisely what transpired today. The ‘Bot says people are solving it in an average of 3.8 guesses, but I could only manage a 4/6. And worse still, I don’t feel like I even did anything much wrong.
TEMPO is not a particularly tricky puzzle. There are no uncommon letters, it’s not an unusual word, there are no repeats… about the only (slightly) awkward aspect to it is that it ends in an O.
Things got off to a poor start for me. I played STARE, as always, but though that gave me two yellow letters (a T and an E), it still left 90 possible solutions. No, I didn’t know that at the time – WordleBot only gives you that information once you’ve finished playing – but I could see that there were lots of options.
Not that many of the best Wordle starting words performed much better today. TRACE left 29 possible answers, TRICE 31 and LEAST 32, but that was about it. Anyone playing SLATE, WordleBot’s favorite, still had 114 solutions to navigate, so I wasn’t as unlucky as some.
Next up, I played TENET – a word that I’ve only recently started using. It might seem odd to repeat my two yellow letters, but it’s a strategy that can come up trumps, and it did so today. Though it didn’t identify any new letters, it turned the first two green and in so doing it cut the number of answers to only three.
These were not too tricky to find: TEMPO, TEPID and TEDDY. But all were equally likely, so I had no option but to blindly guess. I went with TEPID for no particular reason, but was unlucky on this occasion. Still, the yellow P confirmed that TEMPO had to be the answer and I played that next for a 4/6.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #855)
In a different time zone where it’s still Sunday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #855, 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 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 N.
N is a pretty common ending letter in Wordle: it’s the seventh most likely in that position and features in 130 solutions.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #855.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is particular or taken for granted.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #855)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #855) was… GIVEN.
I was slightly surprised to discover that many people found today’s Wordle to be on the difficult side; I solved it in three guesses and on the face of it, there are no particular complications to it. But appearances can be deceptive, and WordleBot, the NYT’S AI-powered helper tool, says it has an average score of 4.2 – making it the toughest puzzle since last Sunday’s LEAKY.
Why might it be harder than the likes of SMIRK, OCCUR or MERCY? Well, I have three theories.
The first is that none of the best Wordle starting words narrowed down the options whatsoever; of WordleBot’s top 20 starter words, TRICE was the most successful, but that still left 72 solutions. Most were above 100 and my choice, STARE, was at 249.
The second is that there are quite a few words that differ from GIVEN by only a couple of letters: WIDEN, SIREN, VIXEN, LINEN, LIKEN and RIPEN, for instance, all share that -I-EN format.
Probably the key factor, though, is that G and V are not common letters in the game. G appears quite often at the start of a word, but is only 17th overall, so you may not have played it until well into the game. V, meanwhile, is 22nd and so one of the last likely letters to appear in general.
Fortunately, none of those problems affected me today, because I got very lucky with my second guess. When faced with a single yellow E on the first go, I tend to play either BLEND or LINED, with the latter being my more go-to choice in recent months. Both include L, N and D – three of the most common consonants in the game – but LINED swaps the fourth consonant for another vowel, in the form of I.
There are pros and cons to this approach, but today it worked out very well for me, turning both vowels green and giving me a yellow N.
I could see right away that the N was likely to go at the end, because NI-E- didn’t suggest any options to me at all, and it had already been ruled out of the other three spaces. So I was looking for words that had the format -I-EN. As I said above, there are quite a lot of these. But I now had the advantage of having discounted lots of consonants – S, T, R, D and L were all gone. And the harder I looked, the more convinced I was that there were only two options left to pick from: VIXEN and GIVEN.
WordleBot confirmed after the game that this was indeed the case, and that my second guess had cut the available solutions from 249 to just two. Told you I was lucky!
Which one to choose? Well, it didn’t really matter, so I just went for the more commonly used word, GIVEN. I guessed right and scored a sweet 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 #855, Sunday 22 October: GIVEN
- Wordle #854, Saturday 21 October: SMIRK
- Wordle #853, Friday 20 October: OCCUR
- Wordle #852, Thursday 19 October: SPLAT
- Wordle #851, Wednesday 18 October: MERCY
- Wordle #850, Tuesday 17 October: ADULT
- Wordle #849, Monday 16 October: GRAPH
- Wordle #848, Sunday 15 October: LEAKY
- Wordle #847, Saturday 14 October: AGENT
- Wordle #846, Friday 13 October: UNCLE
- Wordle #845, Thursday 12 October: KNELT
- Wordle #844, Wednesday 11 October: SKUNK
- Wordle #843, Tuesday 10 October: SNAIL
- Wordle #842, Monday 9 October: TRUTH
- Wordle #841, Sunday 8 October: BINGE
- Wordle #840, Saturday 7 October: VIOLA
- Wordle #839, Friday 6 October: CHIME
- Wordle #838, Thursday 5 October: BUNCH
- Wordle #837, Wednesday 4 October: SPURT
- Wordle #836, Tuesday 3 October: WHILE
- Wordle #835, Monday 2 October: MERRY
- Wordle #834, Sunday 1 October: BERET
- Wordle #833, Saturday 30 September: DADDY
- Wordle #832, Friday 29 September: AZURE
- Wordle #831, Thursday 28 September: COACH
- Wordle #830, Wednesday 27 September: SMILE
- Wordle #829, Tuesday 26 September: LOYAL
- Wordle #828, Monday 25 September: ROCKY
- Wordle #827, Sunday 24 September: RIGHT
- Wordle #826, Saturday 23 September: CAROL
- Wordle #825, Friday 22 September: BRUSH
- Wordle #824, Thursday 21 September: STONE
- Wordle #823, Wednesday 20 September: SNARE
- Wordle #822, Tuesday 19 September: CLOSE
- Wordle #821, Monday 18 September: FRANK
- Wordle #820, Sunday 17 September: MUSIC
- Wordle #819, Saturday 16 September: ANGEL
- Wordle #818, Friday 15 September: EXERT
- Wordle #817, Thursday 14 September: RAYON
- Wordle #816, Wednesday 13 September: CLEAR
- Wordle #815, Tuesday 12 September: WHISK
- Wordle #814, Monday 11 September: OLDER
- Wordle #813, Sunday 10 September: QUOTE
- Wordle #812, Saturday 9 September: LUCKY
- Wordle #811, Friday 8 September: ROUSE
- Wordle #810, Thursday 7 September: DWELL
- Wordle #809, Wednesday 6 September: GNASH
- Wordle #808, Tuesday 5 September: BIRCH
- Wordle #807, Monday 4 September: GIDDY
- Wordle #806, Sunday 3 September: AWAIT
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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