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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.
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? TechRadar’s Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that game, and you can also take a look at our NYT Strands today and NYT Connections today pages for our verdict on two of the New York Times’ other brainteasers.
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 #1531) – clue #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has 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).
Wordle hints (game #1531) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is S.
S is the most common starting letter in the game, featuring in 365 of Wordle’s 2,309 answers. In fact, it’s almost twice as likely to begin an answer as the next most common starting letter, C.
Wordle hints (game #1531) – 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 #1531) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is T.
T is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – in fact only E and Y are more likely in that position.
Wordle hints (game #1531) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1531.
- Today’s Wordle answer is to divide.
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 #1531)
- NYT average score: 3.5
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 2
- My skill score: 91
- My luck score: 46
- My start word performance: MEATY (166 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: SLATE (5)
- Tomorrow’s start word: SHACK
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1531) is… SPLIT.
This is one of those games where you’ll have wanted a start word that begins with an S and contains an L or T – or better yet both of them.
SLATE is one such word, and it left only five options today. WordleBot, which currently begins with SLATE, duly scored a two – and by the looks of it, plenty of others will too, given that SPLIT has an average score of just 3.5.
I had to settle for a four, after my random opener MEATY left 166 possibles. SHUNT was a decent second guess and gave me the S and T at either end of the word.
That left me seven options, but annoyingly I only found four of them: SKIRT, SCOOT, SPORT and SWIFT. I missed SPLIT plus STILT and SPILT – and no, I really don’t know how I managed to do that.
That skewed my thinking for the next guess, and I went with SKIRT thinking it would guarantee me a four when in reality it could have left me a three-way choice.
Fortunately, luck was with me on this occasion and it narrowed down all of the answers including the ones I hadn’t thought of. I had to think for a minute about what the answer could be, then realized it was obvious – it had to be SPLIT. Not my finest hour.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1530)
In a different time zone where it’s still Wednesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1530, 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 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.
- 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 R.
R is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – it’s actually the 4th most common there, behind E, Y and T.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1530.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a tall part of a building.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1530)
- NYT average score: 3.9
- My score: 5
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- My skill score: 93
- My luck score: 45
- My start word performance: ANNOY (392 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: SLATE (119)
- Tomorrow’s start word: MEATY
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1530) was… TOWER.
More than a month has passed since our last ER solution, namely the super-tough GOFER in late July. TOWER is theoretically far easier than that word, in that it currently has an average score of 3.9 versus a monumentally high 5.6 for GOFER. So why is that?
Well, three of the letters are identical: they both have the -O-ER format. So the difference must lay in the T and W of TOWER against the G and F of GOFER – and the words themselves.
My instinct is that the T is the single biggest factor here. Many of the best Wordle start words include a T, not least WordleBot’s favored SLATE and the ever-popular STARE.
Even those people who began with a different word, for instance CRANE or AUDIO, will have been likely to have included a T in a second guess, because it’s simply a very common letter. The G and F in GOFER, meanwhile, are not found in many popular start words, and are not common choices to be played on the second round either.
Against that, the W in TOWER is less common than G or F – but equally, once you’d found the T and established that this was an -O-ER word, your options will have been limited to TO-ER or -OTER, and there are not too many of either.
Unfortunately, I didn’t play the letter T until the fourth guess, an oversight that led to my below-par score of five – my first for 10 games after an excellent run that’s included seven 3/6s.
I wasn’t helped much by my randomly chosen opener ANNOY, which gave me only a single yellow O and left 392 options. I fared better on the second, though, where SCORE added the R and E into the mix and immediately suggested that this would be an ER word.
At that point I set about listing as many of those as I could find, and came up with 24 of them. WordleBot suggested later that I had 40 to find at this stage, but some – for instance OILER and OGLER – seem unlikely, while others were ED words that I don’t believe will be solutions.
There were also a few that I knew had been past Wordle answers, including BOXER and JOKER, so I discounted them and decided that VOWEL would be my best third guess.
With hindsight, I could have done better here. The V was designed to rule in/out the likes of MOVER and VOTER, while the W was in MOWER and TOWER and the L in LOVER and LOWER, among others. I also kept the O and E in, so that I could confirm this was indeed an -O-ER game.
VOWEL worked fairly well, but still left me with six options: TOWER, POWER, MOWER, ROWER, BOWER and – according to the ‘Bot – ROWED. The latter wasn’t on my list, but the other five were.
I knew that ROWER had appeared before (in January this year) and was also pretty sure about POWER (correctly; it appeared in 2022). So I played TEMPS and when the T turned green knew that TOWER was the solution. It took me a while, but I got there in the end.
Wordle answers: The past 50
I’ve been playing Wordle every day for more than three 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 #1530, Wednesday 27 August: TOWER
- Wordle #1529, Tuesday 26 August: ANNEX
- Wordle #1528, Monday 25 August: MIRTH
- Wordle #1527, Sunday 24 August: SPORE
- Wordle #1526, Saturday 23 August: UNION
- Wordle #1525, Friday 22 August: RATTY
- Wordle #1524, Thursday 21 August: EXTOL
- Wordle #1523, Wednesday 20 August: LLAMA
- Wordle #1522, Tuesday 19 August: ROWDY
- Wordle #1521, Monday 18 August: ISSUE
- Wordle #1520, Sunday 17 August: LOUSY
- Wordle #1519, Saturday 16 August: MATTE
- Wordle #1518, Friday 15 August: LEVEL
- Wordle #1517, Thursday 14 August: KNELL
- Wordle #1516, Wednesday 13 August: KEFIR
- Wordle #1515, Tuesday 12 August: NOMAD
- Wordle #1514, Monday 11 August: SOUTH
- Wordle #1513, Sunday 10 August: MINTY
- Wordle #1512, Saturday 9 August: NASAL
- Wordle #1511, Friday 8 August: IMBUE
- Wordle #1510, Thursday 7 August: CORAL
- Wordle #1509, Wednesday 6 August: GROAN
- Wordle #1508, Tuesday 5 August: STORK
- Wordle #1507, Monday 4 August: RIGID
- Wordle #1506, Sunday 3 August: LUMPY
- Wordle #1505, Saturday 2 August: DAUNT
- Wordle #1504, Friday 1 August: BANJO
- Wordle #1503, Thursday 31 July: FRILL
- Wordle #1502, Wednesday 30 July: ASSAY
- Wordle #1501, Tuesday 29 July: OMEGA
- Wordle #1500, Monday 28 July: SAVVY
- Wordle #1499, Sunday 27 July: WHOLE
- Wordle #1498, Saturday 26 July: HAUNT
- Wordle #1497, Friday 25 July: GOFER
- Wordle #1496, Thursday 24 July: QUAKE
- Wordle #1495, Wednesday 23 July: WATER
- Wordle #1494, Tuesday 22 July: BURNT
- Wordle #1493, Monday 21 July: TIZZY
- Wordle #1492, Sunday 20 July: BLANK
- Wordle #1491, Saturday 19 July: SWORD
- Wordle #1490, Friday 18 July: LORIS
- Wordle #1489, Thursday 17 July: MODAL
- Wordle #1488, Wednesday 16 July: NERVY
- Wordle #1487, Tuesday 15 July: FOIST
- Wordle #1486, Monday 14 July: UNDID
- Wordle #1485, Sunday 13 July: GNOME
- Wordle #1484, Saturday 12 July: EXILE
- Wordle #1483, Friday 11 July: BRAND
- Wordle #1482, Thursday 10 July: JUMPY
- Wordle #1481, Wednesday 9 July: NOVEL
- Wordle #1480, Tuesday 8 July: DREAD
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 in 2022 and is still going strong in 2025.
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’ Games 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.
12. The NYT has added in some of its own words, that weren’t in that list of 2,309 solutions. More will undoubtedly come over the next few years.