Wordle answers — today's solution and full archive
Every verified Wordle solution since the puzzle launched on June 19, 2021. Updated daily with letter analysis, progressive hints, and difficulty ratings for each puzzle.
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About Wordle
Wordle is a daily word puzzle published by The New York Times. Players have six attempts to guess a five-letter target word, with each guess returning color-coded feedback: green for a correct letter in the correct position, yellow for a correct letter in the wrong position, and gray for a letter not in the word.
The game was created by software engineer Josh Wardle for his partner during the pandemic and launched publicly in October 2021. By January 2022 it had grown from 90 to over 2 million daily players, and the New York Times acquired it for a sum reported to be in the low seven figures. A new puzzle is released every day at midnight in the player's local time zone, and everyone who plays the same day gets the same word.
This archive contains every official Wordle solution from #1 on June 19, 2021 through today's puzzle. Each entry includes letter-by-letter analysis, vowel and consonant counts, repeated letter detection, a difficulty heuristic, and progressive hints so you can nudge yourself toward the answer without spoiling it. Looking for the most recent puzzles? Today's solution is at the top of this page, and the date list below covers the past 30 days.
How to play Wordle
Open Wordle on the NYT site and type any valid five-letter English word as your first guess.
Press Enter. Each tile flips and shows a color: GREEN means the letter is correct and in the right spot, YELLOW means the letter is in the word but in the wrong spot, and GRAY means the letter isn't in the word at all.
Use that feedback to make your next guess. You have six attempts total to land on the exact answer.
If you solve it, the game ends and you can share your result as a colored grid (no spoilers). If you run out of guesses, the answer is revealed.
A new puzzle unlocks at midnight in your local time zone. Everyone playing the same calendar day sees the same word, which is why solution lookups like this one exist.
Recent Wordle answers
Strategy & tips
Opener
Start with a vowel-heavy word
Words like ADIEU, AUDIO, and OUIJA rule out three or four vowels in a single guess. Many solvers prefer CRANE, SLATE, or CRATE because they balance two vowels with three of the most common consonants in English.
Strategy
Don't reuse gray letters
After your first guess, gray letters are eliminated entirely. Use your second guess to test five completely new letters — a technique called "hard mode optional play" — to maximize information before you start narrowing down.
Pattern
Watch for double letters
Wordle solutions frequently include repeated letters (BOOST, FLEET, POPPY). If you have a yellow letter that doesn't fit anywhere obvious, consider that it might appear twice in the answer.
Endings
Common suffixes win games
Many answers end in -ER, -ED, -LY, -LE, or -Y. If you've locked the last two letters as ER, the word is almost certainly a comparative or an agent noun (BAKER, RIVER, OTHER).
Letter frequency
Prioritize E, A, R, O, T
These are the five most common letters in Wordle solutions. If you have free guesses left, test them before reaching for rarer letters like J, Q, X, or Z.
Last resort
Use the official WordleBot
After you finish, the NYT's WordleBot scores each of your guesses against the optimal play. It's a free tool for Games subscribers and the fastest way to learn from your mistakes.
Frequently asked questions
What is today's Wordle answer?
Today's Wordle answer (puzzle #1789, May 13, 2026) is DOWDY.
For the full breakdown with letter analysis and progressive hints, view today's Wordle page.
When does the new Wordle release each day?
A new Wordle is released at midnight in your local time zone. The New York Times rolls the puzzle over on the device's local clock, so a player in Los Angeles gets the new puzzle three hours after a player in New York.
We post the verified answer here shortly after midnight US Eastern time, so it's available for everyone in the Americas, Europe, and Asia within the same calendar day.
How is the daily Wordle answer chosen?
The New York Times maintains a curated list of solutions reviewed by an editor. Words are selected to avoid recent news events, repeated patterns, regional spellings, and offensive terms. The editor also rejects words that might give one set of players an unfair advantage — for example, words specific to a particular dialect.
The original Wordle by Josh Wardle had roughly 2,300 possible solutions. The NYT has trimmed and re-ordered the list since acquiring the game.
Can the answer be a plural or past tense?
Yes. Solutions can be plurals (ending in S), past tense (ending in ED), or comparatives (ending in ER). The dictionary excludes proper nouns, abbreviations, hyphenated words, and multi-word phrases.
Roughly 15% of past Wordle solutions end in S, and another 8% end in ED or ER, so it's worth checking these endings when you have a yellow letter floating at the end of your guesses.
Is there a Wordle play archive?
The New York Times offers a full archive of past Wordle puzzles to NYT Games subscribers ($6/month or $40/year as of 2025). Free players can only attempt the day's current puzzle.
This site is an independent answer index, not a play archive. Use it to look up the verified answer for any past date — our archive goes back to puzzle #1 on June 19, 2021. To play past puzzles yourself, you'll need an NYT Games subscription.
Is Wordle free to play?
Yes — the daily puzzle is free for everyone at nytimes.com/games/wordle. You don't need a subscription to play today's word.
Where the NYT charges is for the archive, the WordleBot analysis tool, and the rest of their daily games (Spelling Bee full access, Connections archive, Crossword, etc.). All three are bundled into the NYT Games subscription.
How long should it take to solve Wordle?
The average solve time is around 4 to 5 minutes, and most players finish in 4 guesses. According to NYT data, fewer than 5% of players solve in 2 guesses (most of those are lucky guesses with their opener) and around 2% fail to solve in 6.
If you're consistently solving in 5 or 6, your opening word is the biggest lever — see the strategy section above.
Are these answers official?
No. AppWalkthrough is an independent site. Wordle is a trademark of The New York Times Company, and we're not affiliated with the NYT in any way.
We solve and verify each daily puzzle ourselves before publishing the answer here. If you ever spot an error, please let us know and we'll fix it.