Your Guide to Today’s Wordle Answer
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, and you can also take a look at my NYT Strands today and NYT Connections today pages for my verdict on two of the New York Times’ other brainteasers.
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Today’s Wordle answer and hints are below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to see them.
Wordle hints (game #1146) – 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 #1146) – 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 #1146) – 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 #1146) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
- The last letter in today’s Wordle is Y.
Y is the second most common ending letter in the game, behind only E. In total, 364 Wordle answers end with a Y.
Wordle hints (game #1146) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1146.
Today’s Wordle answer is brazen or cheeky.
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Today’s Wordle answer (game #1146)
NYT average score: 3.9
3.9 My score: 4
4 WordleBot’s score: 4
Best start word performance * : TRACE (4 remaining answers)
* TRACE (4 remaining answers) My start word performance: GRUNT (69)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1146) is… SAUCY.
I didn’t cover myself in glory today, escaping with a four that could easily have been a five, but should probably have been a three. But it wasn’t a disaster.
That said, I doubt it will be a disaster for anyone; SAUCY has an average score of 3.9 and is a lot easier than yesterday’s MACAW. That’s chiefly a matter of probability: it starts with the most common starting letter, ends with the second most common ending letter, and contains three very common letters in-between.
As a word, it’s reasonably common, although less so than its near-alternative SAUCE, which was played by a fair few people on guesses two and three. However, many people will have ruled out the E on the first guess, because seven of the nine most popular openers contain that letter.
The best starter was TRACE, which left only four answers, but a couple of other top picks reduced the options list to below 30: SLATE was at 22 and STARE at 24, both helped by having that S at the start.
My opener today was GRUNT, which WordleBot described as “strong” and which performed reasonably well, cutting the shortlist to 69. A better second guess might have cut that to only a handful: WordleBot suggested CLASP or SCALP, which would have left three and two respectively. Instead, I went with HOLES, reasoning that my green U might form part of an OUSE pattern (HOUSE, MOUSE, LOUSE) or an OUCH pattern (COUCH, POUCH, VOUCH).
I was on the wrong track, though, and HOLES gave me only a yellow S and left seven options. At least I knew that it would likely go at the start for S-U–, and found two words: SCUFF and SCUBA. I completely missed SAUCY, plus four SQ words – SQUIB, SQUAB, SQUAD and SQUID.
That was an oversight, and one that could have come back to haunt me, because I went with SCOFF next and if the answer had been one of those four SQ answers, I might have ended up with a five or worse. As it is, SCOFF was wrong but also ruled out the others, and left SAUCY as my only option.
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