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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.
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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 #1533) – clue #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has vowels in three 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 #1533) – 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 #1533) – clue #3 – repeated letters
Does today’s Wordle have any repeated letters?
• There are 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 #1533) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is 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.
Wordle hints (game #1533) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1533.
- Today’s Wordle answer is to fill with joy.
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 #1533)
- NYT average score: 2.9
- My score: 3
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- My skill score: 88
- My luck score: 76
- My start word performance: ABLED (61 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: SLATE (2)
- Tomorrow’s start word: BUNNY
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1533) is… ELATE.
There are days when the best Wordle start words just make the game too easy, and today is one of those.
SLATE, WordleBot’s favored opener and the sixth most popular choice among the public today, left only two options – PLATE and ELATE. STARE, the third most common starting guess, left only five. Between them, those two words accounted for 6% of all first guesses – so that’s going to have skewed the average considerably.
I’m writing this very early in the day, so it may go higher over time, but right now the average for ELATE is a mere 2.9 – making it one of only four Wordles ever to have dipped below 3.0.
Two of the other three were SLATE and PLATE (the other was CHASE), so that -LATE format is statistically the easiest in the game, albeit not the easiest for everyone who plays; if you begin with AUDIO or ADIEU you’ll have had a harder time of it today.
I didn’t start with either of those, or SLATE, or STARE, because my random word generator told me to play ABLED. But I didn’t have a terrible time of it myself, with three letters turning yellow and my shortlist cut to 61.
It made sense to put those three yellows into their most common positions – so -LA-E. I nearly played SLATE, but knew it had been a past Wordle answer so skipped it and went with PLATE.
My decision paid off: the L, A, T and E all turned green, meaning I only had two words left to choose from: SLATE and ELATE. And I’d already mentally ruled out the former, so played the latter for my three.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1532)
In a different time zone where it’s still Friday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1532, too.
- Wordle yesterday had 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).
- 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 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 #1532.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is hard work.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1532)
- NYT average score: 4.1
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- My skill score: 90
- My luck score: 63
- My start word performance: SHACK (127 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: SLATE (23)
- Tomorrow’s start word: ABLED
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1532) was… GRAFT.
Haven’t we been here before? Why, yes we have – CRAFT was the answer to game #1045 and DRAFT was the solution to #1299. If you knew that then you may have had an easier time of it, but if you didn’t… well, then you may have struggled.
That’s probably why GRAFT has an average score right now of 4.1. It’s not super tough, but it’s hard enough to be causing some problems, and that multiple-answer-with-only-one-letter-changed aspect is most likely the cause.
I ended up with a four myself, but it could have been a three if I’d have checked a past answers list – because I played DRAFT on the third attempt. Admittedly, it wasn’t a straight choice between the two, because APART and QUART could also have been the solution at that stage.
Would I have played GRAFT if I’d have known that DRAFT was ruled out? I suspect I would have done, because APART contains a repeated letter and QUART has an uncommon Q. So yes, I would have scored a three if I’d checked. Let’s leave it at that.