Grab your Wordle clues, because today’s puzzle is a monster!
Yes, it’s a difficult one – arguably the hardest since RIPER more than two weeks ago. WordleBot’s reporting an average score of 4.6 for it, and if anything that sounds a little low for a game that I only managed a 5/6 on.
I’m a Wordle addict who’s been playing since December 2021, so I can definitely help you solve Wordle today and improve your game for tomorrow. Read on for my Wordle clues and hints to game #629 and bookmark this page so you can easily return tomorrow.
Oh, and if you also play Quordle then my Quordle today page contains clues and answers for that too.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about Wordle today and yesterday are below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Marc is TechRadar’s UK Editor in Chief and has been playing Wordle for more than a year. He’s authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar and its sister site Tom’s Guide, including a detailed analysis of the most common letters in every position. His streak recently reached the 400 mark and he’ll be inconsolable if he loses it. Yes, he takes it all too seriously.
Wordle clues (game #629) – hint #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has one vowel, repeated*.
* 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 clues (game #629) – hint #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is R.
R is a surprisingly uncommon starting letter. Despite ranking third overall in Wordle, it’s merely the 11th most likely to begin an answer.
Wordle clues (game #629) – hint #3 – repeated letters
Does today’s Wordle have any repeated letters?
• There is one repeated letter 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 clues (game #629) – hint #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 clues (game #629) – hint #5 – last chance
Still looking for Wordle clues today? Don’t worry, I’ll give you one more for game #629.
- You’ll delight in today’s Wordle answer
If you just want to know the answer at this stage you can scroll down to see it, 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 the solution then DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER BECAUSE THE ANSWER IS DIRECTLY BELOW. So don’t say you weren’t warned!
Wordle today (game #629) – the answer
The answer to today’s Wordle, game #629, is… REVEL.
What a difference a day makes. Yesterday, I scored a 2/6 in what was one of the easier puzzles we’ve had recently. Today, I scraped home with my first 5/6 in a while, and I suspect some of you will have fared worse still.
REVEL is a difficult answer, for sure. WordleBot says people are solving it in an average of 4.6 – which means it’s the hardest puzzle since the monumentally tough RIPER in late February (game #613) and quite possibly the second hardest since JUDGE way back on Christmas Day.
So, what’s the problem? Well, it’s fourfold.
For starters, that V is annoying. V is not particularly common in Wordle – in fact it’s the fifth least likely letter to appear in an answer, ahead of only Z, X, Q and J. There are only 152 of them across the game’s 2,308 solutions, so you’d only expect one about every 15 games or so… and I didn’t expect one today.
Secondly, this is a word that has lots of similarly spelled alternatives. Even if you had RE-EL in place you could potentially choose between REBEL, REPEL and REVEL. Or you might be been picking from LEVEL, BEVEL, and REVEL. And earlier in the game, it was harder still, with many of the best Wordle starting words leaving dozens of possible answers. STARE, my go-to option, left a whopping 181; WordleBot’s pick, SLATE, left 95, CRANE was 187, SLANT was 197, TRACE was 171 and CARTE was 163. No relief there with any of them.
Third, well, REVEL is not the most obvious word in the dictionary. If you’re faced with the choice I was then REBEL definitely makes more sense.
And finally, there’s yet another repeated E in there, just as there was with WHERE yesterday. No, a repeated E isn’t that uncommon and no, it didn’t make yesterday’s game too difficult, but it still throws another problem into the mix.
With all those options to sift through following STARE, I played a second word that I knew wasn’t right but which would hopefully rule out a bunch of options: LINED. This did the trick, reducing those possible answers from 181 to just 10 (according to WordleBot) or seven by my reckoning (I missed FLYER, UCLER and, um, OGLER).
Playing REBEL was a calculated move that would possibly get me a 3/6 and would guarantee I scored no lower than 5/6; if I’d guessed some of the other options on my list, for instance RULER, GRUEL or CRUEL, I might have ended up with a 6/6.
Unfortunately, my luck had now run out. The answer wasn’t REBEL, and nor was it REPEL, meaning I ended up instead with a disappointing 5/6. But I bet I’m not the only one.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Wordle yesterday (game #628) – clues
In a different time zone where it’s still Thursday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #628, too.
- Wordle yesterday had one vowel, repeated.
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was W.
- There was one repeated letter in yesterday’s Wordle.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was E.
- Yesterday’s Wordle is at, or in, what place
Wordle yesterday (game #628) – the answer
The answer to yesterday’s Wordle, game #628, was… WHERE.
At first glance, this looks like one of the easiest Wordles ever. It’s certainly one of the most common words we’ve had in the game; it’s up there with the likes of THERE, NIGHT and TODAY in terms of how frequently we use it.
Its average score would also indicate it’s on the easier side: WordleBot says people are solving it in an average of 3.9 guesses, which is below the norm of 4. But but but… it isn’t necessarily quite so straightforward.
For one, there are lots of words that fit a similar pattern, depending on what you played for your first go. In fact, very few of the best Wordle starting words were actually much help today. WordleBot’s favorite, SLATE, left 123 possible answers; SLANT left 530. CRANE, CRATE, TRACE and CARTE were a bit better – they were all in the 40s – but that’s still too many for comfort.
There’s also the fact that it has a repeated E. This isn’t that uncommon in the game – after all, E is the most likely letter to be repeated in an answer, and getting two of them is more likely than getting one V, for instance. But it still makes the game slightly harder.
On the other hand, if you did get lucky with your start word then you really were in line for a high score today. That’s what happened with me: my favorite, STARE, left just seven possible answers, and duly set me on the way to a lovely 2/6 score.
As it happens, I didn’t find seven answers myself. Instead, I came up with four: WHERE, GENRE, OCHRE and CHORE. The other three that WordleBot considered were INURE, LUCRE and OMBRE, but while I don’t know for certain that they are not actual solutions, my guess is that they are not.
So, I was working on the assumption that I had a 1/4 chance. CHORE was possibly the most likely in terms of common letters, but WHERE is an even more common word. Whichever I went for, I’d be sure to score a 3/6 at worst, so I went with my gut instinct and played WHERE. The result was my first 2/6 for ages and a happy Thursday indeed.
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 #628, Thursday 9 March: WHERE
- Wordle #627, Wednesday 8 March: REGAL
- Wordle #626, Tuesday 7 March: HORSE
- Wordle #625, Monday 6 March: PINKY
- Wordle #624, Sunday 5 March: TOXIC
- Wordle #623, Saturday 4 March: TREND
- Wordle #622, Friday 3 March: SQUAT
- Wordle #621, Thursday 2 March: ABOVE
- Wordle #620, Wednesday 1 March: MOOSE
- Wordle #619, Tuesday 28 February: POLKA
- Wordle #618, Monday 27 February: WORSE
- Wordle #617, Sunday 26 February: SYRUP
- Wordle #616, Saturday 25 February: FIFTY
- Wordle #615, Friday 24 February: ARBOR
- Wordle #614, Thursday 23 February: VAGUE
- Wordle #613, Wednesday 22 February: RIPER
- Wordle #612, Tuesday 21 February: RUDDY
- Wordle #611, Monday 20 February: SWEAT
- Wordle #610, Sunday 19 February: KIOSK
- Wordle #609, Saturday 18 February: AVAIL
- Wordle #608, Friday 17 February: CACHE
- Wordle #607, Thursday 16 February: MAGIC
- Wordle #606, Wednesday 15 February: SALSA
- Wordle #605, Tuesday 14 February: SOUND
- Wordle #604, Monday 13 February: USAGE
- Wordle #603, Sunday 12 February: GIANT
- Wordle #602, Saturday 11 February: DEBUG
- Wordle #601, Friday 10 February: HEADY
- Wordle #600, Thursday 9 February: STAGE
- Wordle #599, Wednesday 8 February: FLAIL
- Wordle #598, Tuesday 7 February: APPLE
- Wordle #597, Monday 6 February: NINTH
- Wordle #596, Sunday 5 February: DANCE
- Wordle #595, Saturday 4 February: UNLIT
- Wordle #594, Friday 3 February: TASTY
- Wordle #593, Thursday 2 February: SHIRK
- Wordle #592, Wednesday 1 February: SCOLD
- Wordle #591, Tuesday 31 January: CROSS
- Wordle #590, Monday 30 January: CRAVE
- Wordle #589, Sunday 29 January: FISHY
- Wordle #588, Saturday 28 January: FLIRT
- Wordle #587, Friday 27 January: WORRY
- Wordle #586, Thursday 26 January: BEEFY
- Wordle #585, Wednesday 25 January: MAIZE
- Wordle #584, Tuesday 24 January: COUNT
- Wordle #583, Monday 23 January: ELUDE
- Wordle #582, Sunday 22 January: MATEY
- Wordle #581, Saturday 21 January: BLURB
- Wordle #580, Friday 20 January: ALTER
- Wordle #579, Thursday 19 January: MUCKY
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 (opens in new tab) or the New York Times’ Crossword app (iOS (opens in new tab) / Android (opens in new tab)), 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.
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