It’s time for your daily round of Wordle hints, expertly crafted to help you keep your streak going even on the toughest of days.
You might think that you don’t need any clues for Wordle today, but remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.
Below, you’ll find a selection of Wordle hints to guide you in the right direction. You don’t have to use them all, but there are five in total should you need them, covering vowels, starting letter, ending letter and more. And if you don’t have time to play at all, you can see the answer, too.
Want more word-based fun? My Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that game, which remains the best of all the main Wordle alternatives.
SPOILER WARNING: Wordle hints and today’s answer are below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to see them.
Wordle hints (game #794) – 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 #794) – 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 #794) – 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 #794) – 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 #794) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #794.
- Today’s Wordle answer adds some flavor.
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 #794)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #794) is… SPICE.
This is a classic Wordle. Not too difficult but not too easy either, rewarding smart play but no so unforgiving that too many people will risk a failure. WordleBot says it has an average score of 3.9, placing it right in the middle of the difficulty range.
Letter-wise, it’s on the easier side; S is the most common starting letter, E the most common ending letter, P, I and C all common in general. But on the flip side, it’s a game where there are lots of similarly spelled answers, which immediately makes it more difficult than it would otherwise be.
Obviously this will depend on how your game goes, but if – like me – you had the S—E elements early on, you’ll still have had dozens of possible answers. And that’s because there are lots of letters that follow an S at the start of a word.
The choices after an S are the five standard vowels, plus W, T, P, H, L, C, N and M. So, about half of the alphabet in total. I’d ruled out the A and the T with my opener, STARE, but the others were all possibilities. WordleBot said that left me with 32 possibles, despite my having two greens already.
SLATE, the best Wordle starting word overall, was in the same ballpark, with 36 options, while SLANT had a whopping 96. However, some words that didn’t begin with an S fared much better: CRANE left just 11 possibles, while TRACE (17), PLATE (18) and PLANE (19) were not too bad either. The best of the top choices? TRICE, which reduced the options list to a mere four.
I didn’t find all 32 of those options, but I came up with enough that I knew it wasn’t worth me guessing for a 2/6. Instead, I tried to find a word that narrowed down the field quickly. I went with CHIMP – SC, SH, SM and SP were all starting combinations, and I featured in many of the answers. WordleBot said this was a solid choice (it preferred PLINK), but that it was lucky. And indeed it was: it gave me a green I, yellow C and yellow P, which meant I now had all five letters in the format S-I-E. It didn’t take a genius to rearrange them to make SPICE and score a 3/6.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #793)
In a different time zone where it’s still Monday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #793, too.
- Wordle yesterday had vowels in two places.
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was B.
- There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was H.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a waterfront area.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #793)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #793) was… BEACH.
We’ve had a lot of tough Wordles recently; games with repeated letters and with Xs or Qs in them. Today’s is not one of those. WordleBot says people are solving it in an average of 3.6 guesses and there are no complicating factors whatsoever here.
All five letters are pretty common, although in the case of B and H they’re not in the top 10 overall. However, B is the third most common starting letter (behind S and C), while H is the sixth most common ending letter.
It’s also another one of those Wordles where some of the best Wordle starting words will have greatly helped. My choice, STARE, left me with a mere 10 possible solutions, while SLATE (12), CRANE (5), TRACE (3), CRATE (3), CARTE (11), STALE (12) and various others all did a great job too.
Although I had only 10 answers to choose from, I didn’t play one next; this was one of those games where guessing randomly could easily have led to a 4/6 or 5/6. Instead, I wanted to score a 3/6, even if it meant forgoing the chance of a 2.
A further complication was that I knew several of these had been past Wordle answers, but not necessarily which ones. I was certain that EMAIL had (game #630), and was pretty sure about LEAFY, HEADY and BEADY (as it turned out, I was right on all fronts).
So, I removed those from my list and played FLICK, which was intended to eliminate / point the way to the answers left on my list, which were HEAVY, BEACH, PEACH, LEACH, LEAKY and MEALY.
This worked well – it only gave me a green C, but by ruling out the L and K as well, that left me with just PEACH and BEACH to choose from. This was a straight 50/50 choice, and I guessed correctly today, with BEACH giving me a 3/6.
Afterwards, I consulted my past answers list and it turned out PEACH had also been a previous solution (game #181), so I really did get lucky today.
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 #793, Monday 21 August: BEACH
- Wordle #792, Sunday 20 August: QUEST
- Wordle #791, Saturday 19 August: MAGMA
- Wordle #790, Friday 18 August: EXACT
- Wordle #789, Thursday 17 August: AMISS
- Wordle #788, Wednesday 16 August: SCRUB
- Wordle #787, Tuesday 15 August: INDEX
- Wordle #786, Monday 14 August: SNAKY
- Wordle #785, Sunday 13 August: WRATH
- Wordle #784, Saturday 12 August: QUICK
- Wordle #783, Friday 11 August: HELLO
- Wordle #782, Thursday 10 August: EMPTY
- Wordle #781, Wednesday 9 August: LOVER
- Wordle #780, Tuesday 8 August: BULLY
- Wordle #779, Monday 7 August: BROOK
- Wordle #778, Sunday 6 August: POLYP
- Wordle #777, Saturday 5 August: ANODE
- Wordle #776, Friday 4 August: CHART
- Wordle #775, Thursday 3 August: PARTY
- Wordle #774, Wednesday 2 August: BEGET
- Wordle #773, Tuesday 1 August: TENTH
- Wordle #772, Monday 31 July: STYLE
- Wordle #771, Sunday 30 July: BATHE
- Wordle #770, Saturday 29 July: CURLY
- Wordle #769, Friday 28 July: ETHOS
- Wordle #768, Thursday 27 July: DISCO
- Wordle #767, Wednesday 26 July: HEART
- Wordle #766, Tuesday 25 July: WHEEL
- Wordle #765, Monday 24 July: HOBBY
- Wordle #764, Sunday 23 July: WHALE
- Wordle #763, Saturday 22 July: FROZE
- Wordle #762, Friday 21 July: BURLY
- Wordle #761, Thursday 20 July: FLANK
- Wordle #760, Wednesday 19 July: TONIC
- Wordle #759, Tuesday 18 July: FLYER
- Wordle #758, Monday 17 July: DROOP
- Wordle #757, Sunday 16 July: TOPAZ
- Wordle #756, Saturday 15 July: CRONE
- Wordle #755, Friday 14 July: FIEND
- Wordle #754, Thursday 13 July: BARGE
- Wordle #753, Wednesday 12 July: WHIRL
- Wordle #752, Tuesday 11 July: EARTH
- Wordle #751, Monday 10 July: FOLLY
- Wordle #750, Sunday 9 July: ENTER
- Wordle #749, Saturday 8 July: COWER
- Wordle #748, Friday 7 July: DONUT
- Wordle #747, Thursday 6 July: WINDY
- Wordle #746, Wednesday 5 July: VENOM
- Wordle #745, Tuesday 4 July: IRATE
- Wordle #744, Monday 3 July: HOTEL
- Wordle #743, Sunday 2 July: MOSSY
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.
