Today’s Wordle answer is another straightforward one. WordleBot says it’s being solved in an average of 3.8 guesses, and there’s no reason why you can’t get a high score today.
Of course you might still want some Wordle hints, because this game is never without complications. And I should know, because I’ve played every day since December 2021.
So, read on for my hints and the answers to game #652 and bookmark this page so you can easily return tomorrow. Oh, and if you also play Quordle then my Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that, too.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about today’s Wordle answers are below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to see them.
Wordle hints (game #652) – clue #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has one vowel*.
* 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 #652) – 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 #652) – 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 #652) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is K.
K is much more common at the end of a Wordle answer than at the start, and in fact ranks ninth overall in this regard.
Wordle hints (game #652) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for Wordle hints today? Don’t worry, I’ll give you one more for game #652.
Today’s Wordle answer is standard.
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 #652)
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Today’s Wordle answer (game #652) is… STOCK.
This is a rather apt answer, because it’s a bit of a stock Wordle too – by which I mean it’s a standard answer. STOCK can of course also be a noun used to describe an accumulated supply of goods, among other things.
Either way, it’s not too tricky to solve. There are three common consonants and one vowel, plus one less common consonant in K. But even K is not too hard to find here, because it comes at the end of the answer, where it’s actually the ninth most likely letter.
It was also a very good answer if you started with TRACE – because that left just 12 possible answers. Most of the best Wordle starting words weren’t quite so helpful, with SLATE leaving 43 answers, according to WordleBot, and CRANE leaving 69.
My choice, STARE, was somewhere in between. It gave me a green S and green T, and left me with 22 possibles.
I had a list of most of them, including the likes of STOMP, STOOD, STINK, STINT, STUMP, STUFF, STUNG, STILL, STILT, STUDY, STUCK and STONY. I nearly guessed one of those right away, but I couldn’t recall which had been past Wordle answers and decided to instead do what I could to guarantee a 3/6.
It took me a while to find a good word to narrow things down, and I was pretty surprised when Wordle accepted COLIN as my guess; I didn’t think a proper noun would be allowed. But it was, and it worked wonderfully, giving me yellow C and O and leaving me with just one possible solution.
That was STOCK, and I played that next time round for a solid 3/6.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #651)
In a different time zone where it’s still Saturday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #651, too.
Wordle yesterday had one vowel.
The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was M.
There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was H.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer is not today.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #651)
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Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #652) was… MARCH.
Ha. Ha. Ha.
Thanks for that, Wordle.
Yesterday was of course April 1st, AKA April Fool’s Day. It most definitely was not the last day in March, which was on Friday. Is this the NYT’s own April Fool? Is it just coincidence? I’m guessing the former, but either way it’s not too difficult an answer to find. WordleBot says people are solving it in 3.7 guesses, and that feels about right for an answer without any major complications.
As a word, MARCH has two very common letters (A and R) and three that sit in the middle overall. C is very common at the start of an answer, but less so elsewhere and is 10th in total. M is 16th overall and H is 14th.
However, H does have the advantage of being quite common at the end (sixth) and is regularly paired there with a C before it. In fact, that’s a pattern that occurs 56 times in total – making it the second most common ending combo of all.
The letters don’t imply that it would be super easy, but some of the best Wordle starting words will have helped massively today, giving some players a massive advantage early on. For instance, CRANE left only 10 possible answers, according to WordleBot, and CRATE just 11. But the really, really good starters were TRACE (5), CARTE (3) and CARET (also 3) – so well done if you began with one of those.
My own starter word, STARE, was not so helpful, giving me yellow A and R and leaving me with 82 possible solutions. That was too many for me to realistically score a 2/6, so instead I tried something I’ve WordleBot do a few times and played a word that contained each of my two yellow letters twice.
This might seem counterintuitive; after all, that that reduced the number of new letters I could play to just one. But it made it far more likely that I’d change a yellow to green, and also covered off the chance of a repeated letter, to an extent.
I went with RADAR and it proved to be quite helpful; I ended up with a green A and effectively with a green R, because there was now only one space where it could go. That reduced my options from 82 to nine, WordleBot says, but I suspect it was fewer than that in reality.
I certainly didn’t find nine myself, instead coming up with CAROL, BARON, MARCH and HARPY. Somehow I missed PARCH and LARCH, and I didn’t find CARNY or CAROM. I did also spot CARGO, but dismissed it as a past Wordle answer.
Looking at the answers I just had a hunch that Wordle might try something silly for April 1, and it so it proved. I went with MARCH and was entirely unsurprised when the letters all turned green.
Honestly, I’m not a big fan of this approach. Maybe I’m dull, but I’d rather the answers were truly random and that I was playing against the game rather than against another human’s selection process. But as I’ve said before, I probably take all this too seriously!
Wordle answers: The past 50
I’ve been playing Wordle every day for more than a year 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 #651, Saturday 1 April: MARCHWordle #650, Friday 31 March: EVERYWordle #649, Thursday 30 March: BREADWordle #648, Wednesday 29 March: BESETWordle #647, Tuesday 28 March: HURRYWordle #646, Monday 27 March: GUANOWordle #645, Sunday 26 March: UNTIEWordle #644, Saturday 25 March: VOTERWordle #643, Friday 24 March: GROUTWordle #642, Thursday 23 March: STAIDWordle #641, Wednesday 22 March: DUVETWordle #640, Tuesday 21 March: TOUGHWordle #639, Monday 20 March: GLOVEWordle #638, Sunday 19 March: CREDOWordle #637, Saturday 18 March: YACHTWordle #636, Friday 17 March: MEALYWordle #635, Thursday 16 March: CIDERWordle #634, Wednesday 15 March: SWEEPWordle #633, Tuesday 14 March: SURLYWordle #632, Monday 13 March: BLAMEWordle #631, Sunday 12 March: BIRTHWordle #630, Saturday 11 March: EMAILWordle #629, Friday 10 March: REVELWordle #628, Thursday 9 March: WHEREWordle #627, Wednesday 8 March: REGALWordle #626, Tuesday 7 March: HORSEWordle #625, Monday 6 March: PINKYWordle #624, Sunday 5 March: TOXICWordle #623, Saturday 4 March: TRENDWordle #622, Friday 3 March: SQUATWordle #621, Thursday 2 March: ABOVEWordle #620, Wednesday 1 March: MOOSEWordle #619, Tuesday 28 February: POLKAWordle #618, Monday 27 February: WORSEWordle #617, Sunday 26 February: SYRUPWordle #616, Saturday 25 February: FIFTYWordle #615, Friday 24 February: ARBORWordle #614, Thursday 23 February: VAGUEWordle #613, Wednesday 22 February: RIPERWordle #612, Tuesday 21 February: RUDDYWordle #611, Monday 20 February: SWEATWordle #610, Sunday 19 February: KIOSKWordle #609, Saturday 18 February: AVAILWordle #608, Friday 17 February: CACHEWordle #607, Thursday 16 February: MAGICWordle #606, Wednesday 15 February: SALSAWordle #605, Tuesday 14 February: SOUNDWordle #604, Monday 13 February: USAGEWordle #603, Sunday 12 February: GIANTWordle #602, Saturday 11 February: DEBUG
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 last year and is still going strong in 2023.
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’ Crossword 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.
