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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 #1512) – 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 #1512) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is N.
N is a surprisingly uncommon starting letter. Only 37 games begin with it and it ranks just 18th in this regard.
Wordle hints (game #1512) – 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 #1512) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is L.
L is a really common letter to find at the end of a Wordle. There are 155 games that finish with an L, and it ranks as the fifth most likely letter there.
Wordle hints (game #1512) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1512.
- Today’s Wordle answer relates to a part of the face.
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 #1512)
- NYT average score: 3.9
- My score: 3
- WordleBot’s score: 3
- My skill score: 97
- My luck score: 79
- My start word performance: BUSHY (43 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: SLATE (7)
- Tomorrow’s start word: RADII
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1512) is… NASAL.
You might think that NASAL would be more difficult to solve than yesterday’s IMBUE, given that it has a repeated letter – but you’d be wrong. Or at least you’d be wrong at the time of writing, when it has an average score of 3.9 to IMBUE’s 4.1.
Regardless of that average, it looks easier to me, too. Each of the four distinct letters is incredibly common in Wordle, and though a repeat does complicate things, A is the fourth most likely to appear to appear twice, after E, O and L.
You’ll have had a particularly easy time of it if you began with SLATE, which left only seven words. My starter, chosen at random, left 43 – but that was no big deal compared to some of the recent games I’ve had, where the ‘shortlist’ has been in the high hundreds or even thousands.
I only had a green S to go on, but with H ruled out already that was pretty helpful – because it suggested T might well feature instead. A and E were also likely, simply because they always are, ditto L and R; that gave me LATER – a word that couldn’t be correct, but which I hoped would narrow down the field somewhat.
And it did. Oh yes it did. In fact, it left only one possible solution: NASAL.
It took me a little while to realize that was the case, but once I’d worked that out, I happily played it for another nice three.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1511)
In a different time zone where it’s still Friday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1511, too.
- Wordle yesterday had 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).
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was I.
I is only the 19th most common starting letter in Wordle, and just 34 of the original 2,309 answers begin with it.
- 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 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.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1511.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is to saturate or permeate with something.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1511)
- NYT average score: 4.0
- My score: 4
- WordleBot’s score: 4
- My skill score: 94
- My luck score: 44
- My start word performance: GULCH (156 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s start word performance: SLATE (120)
- Tomorrow’s start word: GULCH
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1511) was… IMBUE.
I like the word IMBUE, conjuring up as it does lovely ingredients saturated with flavors, but as a Wordle answer it’s a little more difficult than the previous couple.
WordleBot says it currently has an average score of 4.0, compared to 3.4 for GROAN and 3.6 for yesterday’s CORAL, so while not qualifying for full ‘tricky’ status, it will have needed a bit more thought than those games did.
That three-vowels-with-two-at-the-end format is not a common one, although UE is the most likely of those combinations, occurring 15 times across the game’s 2,309 original solutions. If you’re interested, UI, II, AE, EA, OA, OU, AO and OE each have just one example, while there are two OOs, three EOs, five IAs, six IOs, seven IEs and 10 EEs…
The MB combination is found a few times in Wordle – think THUMB (#115), AMBER (#535), CRUMB (#719), EMBER (#953), CLIMB (#1020), PLUMB (#1271), MAMBO (#1289), RUMBA (#1335) and AMBLE (#1372). But these two letters are both very much in the middle of the range other than when at the start of a word (where B is very, very common), so as with the double-vowel ending, you may not have thought to play for it.
I never had to think too hard about that, because the way my guesses behaved meant that it was all taken out of my hands. My initial GULCH gave me a yellow U but nothing more, however by ruling out the L and C it reduced my shortlist to a manageable 156.
Next, I added three more common letters and placed the U next to its favorite partner, an O, to make ROUND. This didn’t appear to help – in that no new letters changed color and the U stayed yellow – but in reality it worked pretty well, reducing my options to a mere 11.
I found only four of these – UPSET, SETUP, ISSUE and SITUP – but in my defense, several of the others were not all that obvious, for instance KAPUT, UMAMI and PIQUE. And of course I missed IMBUE. Silly me.
Fortunately, those missed words didn’t matter; I went with UPSET and though it was wrong, it ruled out every other choice to leave IMBUE as the only possible solution.
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 #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
- Wordle #1479, Monday 7 July: STILT
- Wordle #1478, Sunday 6 July: ATRIA
- Wordle #1477, Saturday 5 July: BALER
- Wordle #1476, Friday 4 July: CURVE
- Wordle #1475, Thursday 3 July: POPPY
- Wordle #1474, Wednesday 2 July: INCUR
- Wordle #1473, Tuesday 1 July: MOLDY
- Wordle #1472, Monday 30 June: BLINK
- Wordle #1471, Sunday 29 June: WITTY
- Wordle #1470, Saturday 28 June: STUMP
- Wordle #1469, Friday 27 June: PLAIN
- Wordle #1468, Thursday 26 June: OFFER
- Wordle #1467, Wednesday 25 June: COMFY
- Wordle #1466, Tuesday 24 June: ELITE
- Wordle #1465, Monday 23 June: ODDLY
- Wordle #1464, Sunday 22 June: THRUM
- Wordle #1463, Saturday 21 June: GLADE
- Wordle #1462, Friday 20 June: TAUPE
- Wordle #1461, Thursday 19 June: CURIO
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.
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