Today's Wordle hints for #1957: six progressive clues. Open one at a time and watch the board fill in. Prefer to work from your own guesses? Use the Wordle solver. Looking for an earlier day? Past Wordle answers.
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Today's Wordle hints for #1957
1
How many vowels are in today's Wordle?
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It contains 1 vowel.
Compare it with the vowels already on your board. Once they are all found, spend every remaining letter on consonants.
2
Does today's Wordle have repeated letters?
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No letter repeats.
If a letter repeats, try doubling one you already have. A missed double is the usual reason a guess that fits every colour still comes back wrong.
3
What letter does today's Wordle start with?
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It starts with “G”.
With the opening letter fixed, think of the letter pairs that usually follow it and test the most common one.
4
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
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It ends with “T”.
Endings narrow the field quickly. Run through the usual word endings that finish on this letter.
5
Is today's Wordle a noun, verb or adjective?
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It is a noun.
Knowing whether it names a thing, an action or a quality rules out whole groups of candidates.
6
What does today's Wordle answer mean?
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Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
Check each candidate against your coloured tiles before spending a guess on it.
Show the answer for October 28, 2026
GRIST
The answer to Wordle #1957 on October 28, 2026 is GRIST.
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How hard is today's Wordle?
Easy Rated from how many common words sit one letter away from the answer, whether a letter repeats, and whether it uses rare letters.
Why it rates easy (contains hints)
1 common five-letter word differs from the answer by a single letter, so a near-miss can cost several guesses.
No letter repeats.
Yesterday's Wordle answer
Still working on yesterday's puzzle (#1956, October 27, 2026)? The answer stays covered until you open it.
Today's Wordle hints for #1956: six progressive clues. Open one at a time and watch the board fill in. Prefer to work from your own guesses? Use the Wordle solver. Looking for an earlier day? Past Wordle answers.
Stuck on one spot? Tap a tile twice to peek at just that letter.
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Today's Wordle hints for #1956
1
How many vowels are in today's Wordle?
Tap to reveal
It contains 2 vowels.
Compare it with the vowels already on your board. Once they are all found, spend every remaining letter on consonants.
2
Does today's Wordle have repeated letters?
Tap to reveal
No letter repeats.
If a letter repeats, try doubling one you already have. A missed double is the usual reason a guess that fits every colour still comes back wrong.
3
What letter does today's Wordle start with?
Tap to reveal
It starts with “B”.
With the opening letter fixed, think of the letter pairs that usually follow it and test the most common one.
4
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
Tap to reveal
It ends with “O”.
Endings narrow the field quickly. Run through the usual word endings that finish on this letter.
5
Is today's Wordle a noun, verb or adjective?
Tap to reveal
It is a noun.
Knowing whether it names a thing, an action or a quality rules out whole groups of candidates.
6
What does today's Wordle answer mean?
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A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "_____!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.
Check each candidate against your coloured tiles before spending a guess on it.
Show the answer for October 27, 2026
BINGO
The answer to Wordle #1956 on October 27, 2026 is BINGO.
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How hard is today's Wordle?
Medium Rated from how many common words sit one letter away from the answer, whether a letter repeats, and whether it uses rare letters.
Why it rates medium (contains hints)
4 common five-letter words differ from the answer by a single letter, so a near-miss can cost several guesses.
No letter repeats.
Yesterday's Wordle answer
Still working on yesterday's puzzle (#1955, October 26, 2026)? The answer stays covered until you open it.
Today's Wordle hints for #1958: six progressive clues. Open one at a time and watch the board fill in. Prefer to work from your own guesses? Use the Wordle solver. Looking for an earlier day? Past Wordle answers.
Stuck on one spot? Tap a tile twice to peek at just that letter.
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Today's Wordle hints for #1958
1
How many vowels are in today's Wordle?
Tap to reveal
It contains 2 vowels.
Compare it with the vowels already on your board. Once they are all found, spend every remaining letter on consonants.
2
Does today's Wordle have repeated letters?
Tap to reveal
One or more letters repeat (4 distinct letters).
If a letter repeats, try doubling one you already have. A missed double is the usual reason a guess that fits every colour still comes back wrong.
3
What letter does today's Wordle start with?
Tap to reveal
It starts with “M”.
With the opening letter fixed, think of the letter pairs that usually follow it and test the most common one.
4
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
Tap to reveal
It ends with “R”.
Endings narrow the field quickly. Run through the usual word endings that finish on this letter.
5
Is today's Wordle a noun, verb or adjective?
Tap to reveal
It is a noun.
Knowing whether it names a thing, an action or a quality rules out whole groups of candidates.
6
What does today's Wordle answer mean?
Tap to reveal
A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical energy, or imparts motion.
Check each candidate against your coloured tiles before spending a guess on it.
Show the answer for October 29, 2026
MOTOR
The answer to Wordle #1958 on October 29, 2026 is MOTOR.
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How hard is today's Wordle?
Medium Rated from how many common words sit one letter away from the answer, whether a letter repeats, and whether it uses rare letters.
Why it rates medium (contains hints)
1 common five-letter word differs from the answer by a single letter, so a near-miss can cost several guesses.
A letter repeats, which most players test late.
Yesterday's Wordle answer
Still working on yesterday's puzzle (#1957, October 28, 2026)? The answer stays covered until you open it.
Rather work it out from your own board? Type in the guesses you have played and tap each letter until its colour matches your game. The solver counts the words that still fit, then gives hints one step at a time: a likely letter, the best next guess, and the full list only if you ask. It does not use today's answer.
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Wordle Opener Scorer
Before tomorrow's puzzle, find out how much work your usual first guess is really doing. Type it in and the scorer plays it against all 3,209 words in our list, one at a time, and reports what would be left: the average number of words still standing, the rank that earns, and the colour results the word gives most often. It is arithmetic over a public word list — it never sees today's answer, so nothing here can spoil the game you just played.
The openers that leave the least to guess
Every word in the list scored the same way, best 25 first. RAISE leads: it cuts the field to 90.1 words on average, which is 97.2% of the list gone on guess one.
Rank
Word
Avg. words left
Ruled out
Colour patterns
Unluckiest case
1
RAISE
90.1
97.2%
136
244
2
SANER
95.3
97.0%
145
304
3
ARISE
97.4
97.0%
136
244
4
LATER
97.4
97.0%
144
293
5
LASER
98.7
96.9%
135
299
6
ALTER
98.8
96.9%
138
293
7
IRATE
99.0
96.9%
127
257
8
ORATE
99.3
96.9%
128
269
9
TASER
99.9
96.9%
145
322
10
AROSE
100.0
96.9%
128
258
11
SLIER
104.7
96.7%
139
295
12
CARET
107.8
96.6%
158
340
13
ASTER
108.8
96.6%
122
322
14
SIREN
110.4
96.6%
141
319
15
OATEN
110.6
96.6%
132
254
16
SNARE
110.6
96.6%
145
304
17
ALIEN
111.4
96.5%
138
284
18
AIRED
111.7
96.5%
142
292
19
LOSER
111.8
96.5%
130
314
20
CATER
112.4
96.5%
152
340
21
LITER
112.9
96.5%
138
313
22
STARE
112.9
96.5%
140
322
23
TARED
113.5
96.5%
148
375
24
AISLE
114.3
96.4%
129
310
25
OARED
114.4
96.4%
130
330
How the famous openers hold up
The starters people recommend to each other, on the same scale:
Rank
Word
Avg. words left
Ruled out
Colour patterns
Unluckiest case
3
ARISE
97.4
97.0%
136
244
22
STARE
112.9
96.5%
140
322
37
SLATE
117.4
96.3%
155
325
41
TRACE
118.2
96.3%
151
340
50
CRANE
121.6
96.2%
147
349
202
ADIEU
148.2
95.4%
90
359
988
AUDIO
218.6
93.2%
105
522
The vowel-stacking reputation does not survive measurement: AUDIO carries 4 vowels and still leaves 218.6 words, against 90.1 for RAISE. Learning which vowels are in the word while placing none of them, and testing few consonants, buys less than it feels like it does — the starting words guide works through why.
Reading the numbers
Avg. words left — play the opener against every word as if that word were the answer; words that return identical colours stay indistinguishable and form a group. The score is the average group size a player lands in. Lower is better.
Ruled out — the share of the list one guess clears on average.
Colour patterns — how many different results the word can return. More patterns generally means smaller groups.
Unluckiest case — the biggest group, the worst you can be left with.
Two things worth knowing before you act on the table. The list is 3,209 common English words, not the answer list The New York Times draws from, so treat the order as the finding and not the decimals; and 1,458 simple plurals were dropped from the 4,667 five-letter words in the source, because Wordle answers are almost never plurals and keeping them would flatter every opener ending in S. A word outside the list can still be scored — the rank shows where it would sit. The scorer's own page sets out the full method, the repeated-letter rules and the word-list licences.
Rankings computed September 16, 2026 over the same word list the solver above uses. You are welcome to quote or link to them — please credit MorningHint Wordle Opener Scorer.
How to play Wordle
You have six tries to find one hidden five-letter word. Type a real word, press enter, and every tile changes colour to tell you how close you were.
What the tile colours mean
Green: right letter, right spot. Leave it there.
Yellow: the letter is in the word somewhere else. Move it on your next try.
Grey: the letter is not in the word, so stop using it.
A simple plan for six guesses
Spend the first guess on common letters, ideally two or three vowels and frequent consonants. Use the second to test letters you have not tried yet, rather than shuffling the first word. By the third guess, place your greens, move your yellows and leave the greys out. If two or three words still fit, choose a guess that splits them instead of betting on one.
When a guess looks perfect but fails, check for a doubled letter first. That is the most common trap. Want more? See the full rules and our strategy guide.
Wordle hints FAQ
What time does the new Wordle come out?
A fresh puzzle unlocks at midnight in your own time zone. This page changes at midnight US Eastern time, and if you are ahead of or behind Eastern time your browser switches to your local day on its own.
Is it cheating to use Wordle hints?
Only you decide what counts. The clues here are built for people who want to keep their streak and still do the solving: open the vowel count, try again, and stop the moment it clicks.
How many guesses do you get?
Six. Each one has to be a real word, and the coloured tiles after each guess are the only feedback you get.
Is the Wordle the same for everyone?
Yes. Every player gets the same numbered puzzle on the same date, which is why shared grids can be compared.
Where do these clues come from?
The letters come from the official puzzle data for the day. The meaning clue comes from an open dictionary (credited at the foot of the page), with the answer itself masked out.
What does the difficulty rating mean?
It looks at three things: how many common words sit one letter away from the answer, whether a letter repeats, and whether the answer uses rare letters. More of each means more guesses for most players.
Is Wordle free?
Yes, the daily puzzle is free to play in a web browser. It was created by Josh Wardle and has been published by The New York Times since 2022.
What is Hard Mode?
A setting that makes you keep every letter you have uncovered: green tiles stay put and yellow letters must be used again. It takes away guesses spent only to test new letters.
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