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Wordle hints (game #1147) – 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 #1147) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is O.
Vowels are generally less common than you’d expect at the start of a word, and O is only the 17th most likely letter to begin a Wordle answer.
Wordle hints (game #1147) – 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 #1147) – 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 #1147) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1147.
Today’s Wordle answer is a weight.
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.
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Today’s Wordle answer (game #1147)
(Image credit: New York Times)
NYT average score: 3.8
3.8 My score: 3
3 WordleBot’s score: 3
3 Best start word performance * : CRANE (11 remaining answers)
* CRANE (11 remaining answers) My start word performance: SERIF (388)
* From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1147) is… OUNCE.
Wordles with three or more vowels are typically much easier to solve than those with one (or none). The average for the game overall (from the nearly 900 Wordles I have a score for) is currently 3.962. For those answers with one or zero vowels, that goes up to 3.998 – but for those with three or four, it drops to 3.942.
It’s not a huge difference, admittedly, but it’s there – and it’s understandable. Vowels are easier to find than consonants, because there are only five standard vowels but 21 consonants. Plus, most of the best – and most popular – start words contain two, three or even four vowels (in the case of AUDIO and ADIEU).
OUNCE not only contains three vowels, but the two consonants are also the super-common C and N, so you’d expect it to have a nice, low average today. At the time of writing, it’s at 3.8 – which is below the average, but not super-low. I suspect it may drop further over time, though, because there’s really nothing to fear here.
As is usually the case, a couple of popular start words made big inroads into the answers list today: AUDIO, the second most-played opener of all, left 14, while CRANE was at 11. Others were not so lucky, with STARE leaving 107, for instance. My opener today was SERIF, and it was in the latter category – and then some. SERIF was “a strong opening guess,” said WordleBot, but it left a whopping 388 options.
OUNCE’s easiness is reflected by the fact that I still got home in three despite that start. With S and R ruled out I wanted to include three from T, L, C and N, plus either A or O as a second vowel. CLONE was my pick, and it was incredibly lucky, giving me yellow C, O and N, and turning the E green. That left me with only one answer left, so I played it next for my 3/6.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1146)
In a different time zone where it’s still Thursday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1146, 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 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.
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 Y.
Y is the second most common ending letter in the game, behind only E. In total, 364 Wordle answers end with a Y.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1146.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer is brazen or cheeky.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1146)
(Image credit: New York Times)
NYT average score: 3.9
3.9 My score: 4
4 WordleBot’s score: 4
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
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1146) was… 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.