NYT Wordle today — answer and hints for game #1240, Sunday, November 10
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It’s time for your guide to today’s Wordle answer, featuring my commentary on the latest puzzle, plus a selection of hints designed to help you keep your streak going.
Don’t think you need any clues for Wordle today? No problem, just skip to my daily column. But remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.
Want more word-based fun? MyQuordle todaypage contains hints and answers for that game, and you can also take a look at myNYT Strands todayandNYT Connections todaypages for my verdict on two of the New York Times' other brainteasers.
SPOILER WARNING: Today’s Wordle answer and hints are below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to see them.
Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief and has been obsessed with Wordle for more than two years. He’s authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar and its sister site Tom’s Guide, including a detailedanalysis of the most common letters in Wordle in every position. He’s alsoplayed every Wordle ever and only lost onceand yes, he takes it all too seriously.
Wordle hints (game #1240) - clue #1 - Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
•Wordle today hasvowels 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 #1240) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
•The first letter in today’s Wordle answer isI.
I is only the 19th most common starting letter inWordle, and just 34 of the original 2,309 answers begin with it.
Wordle hints (game #1240) - clue #3 - repeated letters
Does today’s Wordle have any repeated letters?
•There arerepeated lettersin 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 Wordledoesn’thave one.
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Wordle hints (game #1240) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
•The last letter in today’s Wordle isR.
R is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – it’s actually the 4th most common there, behind E, Y and T.
Wordle hints (game #1240) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1240.
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 ofWordle tips and tricksto help you, including a guide to thebest Wordle start words.
If youdon’twant 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 #1240)
- From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1240) is…INNER.
We haven’t had an ER word for three weeks, but here we are with the latest one – and it has a repeated letter, too. What larks!
Inevitably, those two complications combine to make it a tricky game overall; at the time of writing, INNER has an average score of 4.2. But don’t despair, because INNER is also one of those rare ER solutions that start with a vowel, joining the likes of OWNER, ORDER and ETHER. These are sometimes slightly easier than a standard ER game, and that appears to be the case today, given that 4.2 is rather low for a word such as this.
I began with the distinctly unhelpful RASPY, which might well have been a good opener on some days, but which left 333 answers today. With a yellow R in the mix, I decided early on to check for an ER word and played TONER. This – remarkably – gave me the final three letter of the answer. But that still left five possible solutions, in the form of LINER, INNER, DINER, MINER and FINER. I remembered that MINER had been an answer very recently (game #1204), so dismissed that and concentrated on the others.
FLING seemed a good choice to narrow them down, but it still could have left me a 50/50 if things had gone wrong; WordleBot preferred FIELD. And indeed, itdidgo wrong and left me that choice between DINER and INNER. I went for the latter for no particular reason and escaped with a 4/6.
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Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1239)
In a different time zone where it’s still Saturday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1239, too.
- 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).
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.
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 Wordledoesn’thave one.
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.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1239.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1239)
- From WordleBot’s Top 20 start words
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1239) was…SWELL.
Sometimes in life you have to make difficult decisions. Do you take that dream job that means you have to move away from family and friends? Do you end that relationship that’s sort of fizzling out? Do you play it safe in Wordle… or gamble on a higher score? Big, difficult decisions, all of them.
The third of those was the only one facing me yesterday, but it still gave me pause for thought. I had three words left and could easily have scored a 3/6 if I guessed right. Guess wrong, though, and I might end up with a five.
In fairness, even a five wouldn’t have been horrible today given that SWELL currently has an average score of 4.5. That’s higher than all but two games in the past two weeks, and with good reason – because it’s a too-many-answers Wordle.
Change just one letter and you can get six different words: SWELL, SPELL, SMELL, SHELL, DWELL and SWILL. The first four of those are probably the ones that will have caused the most trouble yesterday; SHELL was the most popular word on guess #2, while on guesses number #3 and #4 it comprised 10% of all answers. SMELL, meanwhile, was played by 16% of Wordlers on that fourth attempt.
SWELL is arguably the least common word of the four, and W is definitely a less common letter than either P, M or H, so it’s no surprise to see such a high score here. The repeated L won’t have helped, either.
Whatwillhave helped was starting with SLATE; it left only eight possible answers, while STALE was even better, at five. But bad luck if you began with CRANE – which left 273 options. That probably explains why WordleBot, which always begins with that word, scored a five here.
I ended up with a four, after my Big, Difficult Decision on the third guess. I began with QUILT – which WordleBot described as a “decent” opening word, but which I wouldn’t personally have chosen (as always these days, I let fate decide).
QUILT left me with 85 choices, apparently, but all I knew at that time was that I had a green L. I came up with a dozen or so options, and spotted that S was a very likely letter to appear: SMALL and SCALE and SHALE and SCALD and SCALP and so on. I also had WHALE and WHOLE and a few others, so CHASE seemed to cover lots of possibilities.
This proved a very lucky guess, giving me yellow S and E and ruling out all but three words: SMELL, SWELL and SPELL. And at this point I had to choose. Did I shoot for the answer in three, or play it safe for a four? It was never really in doubt – I’m nothing if not pragmatic. So I played WIMPY in order to choose between the three words, then got SWELL on my fourth attempt.
Wordle answers: The past 50
I’ve been playing Wordle every day for more than two years 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 mypast Wordle answerspage for the full list.
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 2024.
We’ve got a full guide to the game in ourWhat is Wordlepage, 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 theWordle websiteor 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.
Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief, the latest in a long line of senior editorial roles he’s held in a career that started the week that Google launched (nice of them to mark the occasion). Prior to joining TR, he was UK Editor in Chief on Tom’s Guide, where he oversaw all gaming, streaming, audio, TV, entertainment, how-to and cameras coverage. He’s also a former editor of the tech website Stuff and spent five years at the music magazine NME, where his duties mainly involved spoiling other people’s fun. He’s based in London, and has tested and written about phones, tablets, wearables, streaming boxes, smart home devices, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, games, TVs, cameras and pretty much every other type of gadget you can think of. An avid photographer, Marc likes nothing better than taking pictures of very small things (bugs, his daughters) or very big things (distant galaxies). He also enjoys live music, gaming, cycling, and beating Wordle (he authors the dailyWordle todaypage).
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