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Today’s Wordle hints – answer, clues and tips for game #815, Tuesday, September 12

Today’s Wordle hints – answer, clues and tips for game #815, Tuesday, September 12

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 #815) – clue #1 – Vowels

How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?

Wordle today has a vowel in one place*.

* 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 #815) – clue #2 – first letter

What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?

The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is W.

W is a fairly average letter when it comes to starting an answer. There are 82 solutions that begin with a W, with means that it ranks 13th – so right in the middle of the alphabet.

Wordle hints (game #815) – 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 #815) – 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 #815) – clue #5 – last chance

Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #815.

  • Today’s Wordle answer is a kitchen utensil or cooking action.

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 #815)

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Today’s Wordle answer (game #815) is… WHISK.

You might think that any Wordle word that begins with a W, ends with a K, includes an S in an uncommon position and doesn’t feature any of the six most common letters in the game at all would be a nightmare to solve. But no. According to WordleBot, WHISK has an average score of just 3.9, making it easier than many answers, including yesterday’s OLDER (see below).

Why? Well, it certainly wasn’t anything to do with the performance of the best Wordle starting words, because none had a major impact on proceedings. SLATE, WordleBot’s favorite, still left 64 possible solutions, a little higher than the figure for my pick, STARE, at 56. The likes of CRANE, TRACE, CRATE and SLANT were all above 100 (considerably so in some cases), and of the top dozen options only LEAST made real headway, cutting the numbers down to 32.

So it wasn’t starting words, and it certainly wasn’t letters in general. Instead, I suspect there just aren’t many words that have a similar format to WHISK, meaning that once you got a couple of letters (particularly if you turned any green) you only had a small pool to pick from. Or maybe everyone is just getting a lot better at Wordle…

Luck may well have been a factor for some people, and it definitely was for me. With more than 50 words open to me for my second guess, I needed a word that would cut down those options and got it in the form of PUSHY.

I choose that word in part because of where the S might go. S is an odd letter in this regard: it’s by far the most common letter to start an answer (featuring in 365 answers), but hardly every crops up in position #2 (16 games) or position #5 (36). It is reasonably common in the middle (80 games) and rather more so in fourth place (171). 

And that makes sense, if you think of the letters that typically follow an S – for instance SH or SK are common ending combinations. –SHY and –SKY are also common – I had PUSHY, BUSHY, FISHY, MUSHY, CUSHY, MUSKY, DUSKY and HUSKY on my list, plus quite a few with double-S (MISSY, HISSY, KISSY, BOSSY, MOSSY). Plus, without the Y I had the likes of PLUSH and BLUSH, so something in that -USHY format was sound thinking.

WordleBot agreed to an extent, awarding me 92/99 for skill. It preferred HOKUM, but either option would have left just two possible answers: WHISK and WOOSH. I went with the one that didn’t have a repeated letter, WHISK, and scored yet another 3/6 – my sixth in a row and 11th in the past 14. I’ll take that.   

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.


Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #814)

In a different time zone where it’s still Monday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #814, too.

  • Wordle yesterday had vowels in two places.
  • The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was O.
  • There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
  • The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was R.
  • Yesterday’s Wordle answer has been around for longer.

Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #814)

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Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #814) was… OLDER.

Another week, another Wordle – and this one has more than a hint of familiarity about it. Perhaps that’s because it has a pretty standard format, with two vowels nestled around three common consonants to form our old favorite, an ER Wordle. Or maybe it’s because OLDER is such a common word. Either way, there’s nothing particularly notable about it. In fact, its average score, according to WordleBot, is a right-in-the-middle-of-the-range 4.0.

I solved it in 3/6 – unusually for me with ER words – but that had very little to do with my first guess and almost everything to do with my second.

As always, I started with STARE, which is one of the best Wordle starting words, albeit not one of WordleBot’s absolute favorites. That gave me a yellow E and yellow R, and left me with 181 possible solutions. SLATE, WordleBot’s top choice, cut the numbers down to just 20, while AUDIO (the second most popular starter word) was even more successful and left players with a mere 18.

But I had a secret weapon to deploy on my second guess: the word LINED. This has worked very well for me before on ER words, because although it couldn’t be the answer it tends to confirm either the ER pattern or an ED one, as well as including several other common letters.

Today, it gave me a yellow L, yellow D and green E – which together were enough to convince me that this was indeed an ER word. What’s more, it only left two possible solutions, ELDER and OLDER.

Either was equally likely, but I decided to go with OLDER as it didn’t repeat any letters and guessed correctly again. I’m sure my luck will end soon, but for now I’ll take it. 


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 #814, Monday 11 September: OLDER
  • Wordle #813, Sunday 10 September: QUOTE
  • Wordle #812, Saturday 9 September: LUCKY
  • Wordle #811, Friday 8 September: ROUSE
  • Wordle #810, Thursday 7 September: DWELL
  • Wordle #809, Wednesday 6 September: GNASH
  • Wordle #808, Tuesday 5 September: BIRCH
  • Wordle #807, Monday 4 September: GIDDY
  • Wordle #806, Sunday 3 September: AWAIT
  • Wordle #805, Saturday 2 September: ONION
  • Wordle #804, Friday 1 September: SPACE
  • Wordle #803, Thursday 31 August: BRIDE
  • Wordle #802, Wednesday 30 August: AUDIO
  • Wordle #801, Tuesday 29 August: CAPER
  • Wordle #800, Monday 28 August: WRITE
  • Wordle #799, Sunday 27 August: PEACE
  • Wordle #798, Saturday 26 August: CHOIR
  • Wordle #797, Friday 25 August: OCEAN
  • Wordle #796, Thursday 24 August: WORDY
  • Wordle #795, Wednesday 23 August: VERVE
  • Wordle #794, Tuesday 22 August: SPICE
  • 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

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.

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