Today’s Wordle Answer

Section 01 · Hints

Today’s Wordle Hints (No Spoilers)

Not ready for the full answer? Work through these clues one at a time. Each hint reveals a little more, so you can stop the moment something clicks and go finish the puzzle yourself. This is the gentlest way to get the Wordle answer today without spoiling the whole thing: you stay in control of exactly how much you see, and most players only ever need the first rung or two before the rest clicks into place.

Still stuck after all five? Scroll back up and tap Reveal today’s answer, or get clue-only help on the Wordle hints page.

The reason a staged ladder works better than a single big hint is that it matches how you actually get unstuck. Most of the time you do not need the whole word — you need one more letter, or a nudge on the vowels, and the rest falls into place on your own next guess. Taking the smallest hint that frees you keeps the puzzle yours. A first-letter clue alone is often enough when you already have two or three greens; the difficulty rung, by contrast, is there for the mornings when nothing is landing and you just want to know whether to expect a fight.

Section 02 · Meaning

What Does Today’s Wordle Answer Mean?

Knowing the meaning rarely helps you guess, but it often helps you remember. Wordle answers lean toward common, concrete vocabulary rather than obscure or archaic words, which is exactly why a good opener full of frequent letters tends to work: the solution is almost always a word you already know.

We rate today’s puzzle easy. That estimate is not the New York Times’ own rating — the game does not publish one — but a quick read of the answer’s shape: how many vowels it carries, whether it repeats a letter, and whether it leans on any of the rarer letters like J, Q, X, or Z that are hard to reach by elimination. With no repeated letter, elimination guesses pay off cleanly, which keeps the difficulty down. A single-vowel word can be surprisingly stubborn, since one wrong vowel guess costs you a whole turn.

Section 03 · Yesterday

Yesterday’s Wordle Answer

Yesterday’s Wordle answer was LORRY (puzzle #1859, 2026-07-22). If you are catching up, you can find it and every earlier solution in the past Wordle answers archive.

Section 04 · Recent

Recent Wordle Answers

Here are the most recent Wordle answers leading up to today. Because the game rarely repeats a solution, scanning the last couple of weeks is a quick way to rule words out — if a word you are considering appears in this list, it is very unlikely to be today’s answer as well. It is also a handy way to catch up if you missed a day and want to keep your own streak of solved puzzles honest.

For the complete list — every answer since 2021, with search and stats — visit the full archive.

Section 05 · How we do it

How We Post the Wordle Answer Each Day

A daily answer page is only useful if you can trust it. Here is exactly how this one works:

• Straight from the official sequence. Each day we record the solution and puzzle number from the live New York Times Wordle feed — the same answer you would see in the app.
• Updated right after the reset. The page refreshes shortly after midnight Eastern, so the Wordle answer today is current within hours of the new puzzle going live.
• Spoiler-safe by default. The answer stays behind a button and the hints stay collapsed, so simply landing here never ruins your game.
• Hints computed from the word itself. First letter, vowels, repeats, and our difficulty estimate are derived directly from the answer, not guessed.

One thing that trips people up: the answer can look different depending on where you are. A new Wordle unlocks at midnight in your own timezone, so a player in Sydney sees puzzle #1860 hours before a player in Los Angeles — same puzzle number, same answer, just a different clock. What genuinely differs is spelling. The New York Times runs American spellings, so a word like FAVOR or COLOR will never carry the British extra U. If your answer ever seems off by a letter, that is almost always the reason, not a mistake in the archive.

We anchor this page to the puzzle number rather than the wall clock, which keeps it unambiguous no matter where you read it. When we say the Wordle answer today is puzzle #1860, that is the same puzzle a solver anywhere in the world is working on that day — the date shown is simply the New York Times print date for that number.

Infinite Wordle is an independent website and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by The New York Times. Wordle is a trademark of The New York Times Company.

Section 06 · Strategy

How to Solve Wordle Without the Answer

Peeking is fine now and then, but solving it yourself is more satisfying. These habits win more Wordles than memorising any single answer:

1. 01
   Open with coverage, not a hunch. Start with a word rich in common letters — E, A, R, O, T, and S — to rule out as much of the board as possible on turn one.
2. 02
   Spend your second guess on new letters. Even with a yellow or two, a second opener that tests five fresh letters usually teaches you more than chasing the first clue.
3. 03
   Pivot on grey letters. Every grey tile eliminates a letter everywhere. Use them to narrow, and avoid re-guessing letters you have already ruled out.
4. 04
   Mind repeats late, not early. Most answers use five different letters, so save double-letter guesses for when the clues actually point there.

There is one more habit that separates consistent solvers from streaky ones: managing risk based on how many guesses you have left. Early on, information is worth more than a win attempt, so it pays to play words that test untested letters even if you are fairly sure of the answer. By your fifth guess the maths flips — now you want the single most likely word, not more information. Good players feel that shift and change gears; everyone else keeps hunting for clues when they should be committing, or commits early and paints themselves into a corner.

When you are truly stuck, feed your clues into the Wordle Solver — it lists every remaining possibility and ranks the best next guess. Read the full method in our how-to-play guide, or just build the instinct by playing more often on the unlimited board, where a fresh puzzle is always one tap away.

Section 07 · Play

Play Wordle Unlimited Instead of Waiting

Solved today’s puzzle and want more? The official game is once a day, but you do not have to wait. Play as many boards as you like, free and without signup, then try the multi-board variants when you want a bigger challenge.

Unlimited practice is also the fastest way to stop needing an answer page at all. The players who solve in three guesses are not luckier — they have simply seen more boards, so common patterns jump out at them. A few extra games a day trains your eye for letter frequency, vowel placement, and the shapes Wordle favours, and within a couple of weeks you will notice your opening guesses doing more work. Come back here for the days you get stumped, but let the unlimited board do the quiet work of making those days rarer.

Section 08 · FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions