Here are today’s Wordle hints and clues, along with the answer. Today’s Wordle (answer) is a noun, it starts with the letter ‘T’. It has a difficulty level of 4.4/6 or moderately challenging. Solve today’s puzzle with the help of the hints on this page which are posted before the answer to avoid spoiling the game.
Today’s game #1551 is here to test your word-guessing skills. Wordle allows you a maximum of six (6) tries to guess a five (5) letter word in two modes (easy and hard). Coloured tiles give you the feedback based on the accuracy of the guessed letters and their placement. Wordle hint on this page (one through four) enables you to find the solution to your game to keep your winning streak. The answer is hidden after the hints to avoid spoilers, so take your time and enjoy solving.
Wordle Hints Today
Let’s solve the puzzle using the following hints.
Hint # 1 with a riddle (click to reveal):
Take a clue from this riddle. “I guard your smile with a bite you can’t ignore. What am I?”. The answer is a noun. It contains one of the five vowels (A, E, I, O, U).
What letter does Wordle start with today? Here’s Hint # 2:
The word starts with the letter ‘T’ (position 1), and there are two repeated letters.
Hint # 3:
The word ends with the letter ‘T’ (position 5). It has more consonants than vowels.
Hint # 4:
The last hint is that the letter ‘E’ is in the centre of the word (position 3). The answer is a 1 syllable word.
The hints above will help you guess the word. It’s time to see if your guesses align with today’s answer.
Wordle’s Answer Today (September 17, 2025)
What is the answer of the Wordle Today? ✨ (click to reveal)
Here is the answer if you still haven’t figured it out by the given hints:
“TEETH”
Meaning of Today’s Answer
Definition (from Oxford Languages)
Noun: The hard bony enamel-coated structures in the jaws of vertebrates used for biting and chewing.
Noun (alternate definition): The projecting cutting or grinding edges of a tool, cog, or comb.
Etymology: Old English; from Old English tōth (“tooth”), plural formation tēth, of Germanic origin.
The number of guesses to reach the answer is directly correlated with the level of difficulty of the puzzle. This is the case irrespective of the fact of whether the game is played with or without the help of the hints. Now that you have solved the puzzle, let’s dive into what made today’s Wordle challenging and how players performed on average.
Difficulty Level
Today’s average Wordle difficulty level is moderate (4.4 guesses out of 6) according to the NYT’s paid testers. But, the difficulty is 3.7 moves in easy mode and 3.6 moves in hard mode, according to the Wordlebot. WordleBot analyses the performance of all players to calculate the average and suggests optimal guesses. It’s ratings sometimes can be significantly different than the NYT testers’ ratings. This is because NYT testers are a limited number of people, while Wordlebot averages difficulty level across all daily players.
Wordle’s difficulty varies daily, and it tells us the game’s challenge level. It is on a scale of 1 to 6, where 1 is the easiest and 6 being the most difficult. This scale is not a coincidence because the maximum allowed number of guesses in the game is 6. Difficulty is sometimes counted as 7 guesses, if a player misses the word (it means that the difficulty for that player is 7).
There are 3 values for difficulty level every day. One is determined in advance by the New York Times (NYT) by averaging the number of guesses to reach the answer. It is provided every day by a small panel of paid testers who solve each puzzle to help NYT identify any issues and inconsistencies in the puzzle. The other two values are provided by the Wordlebot, which averages the guesses across all users daily. Since the game can be played in either Easy or Hard mode, it provides two difficulty values. One for Easy and one for Hard mode.
Yesterday’s Wordle Answer
The yesterday’s answer (Sept 16, 2025) was LEFTY, a noun. It refers to a left-handed person. Yesterday’s difficulty was 4.8/6 or moderate.
Past Wordle Answers
Past Wordle solutions do not repeat in today’s or future games. Tracking old answers helps us avoid wasted guesses. It’s smart to skip words that already appeared. This strategy saves turns and improves win rates. Visit past Wordle answers to see all used words. But, below is the (2 weeks’) list of the past solutions:
- Wordle #1550: LEFTY
- #1549: ALONG
- #1548: NOISY
- #1547: NADIR
- #1546: THROB
- #1545: CHAIR
- #1544: POUTY
- #1543: TRICK
- #1542: CHIRP
- #1541: TENOR
- #1540: BULGE
- #1539: DRIFT
- #1538: BLEND
- #1537: FETCH
Wordle Tips & Best Practices
We improve at Wordle by picking strong starting words and analyzing letter feedback. High-frequency letters, vowel-consonant balance, and logical word patterns help us guess smarter and solve daily puzzles more effectively.
Choose the Best Start Word
A strong start word includes common vowels and consonants. Best Wordle starting words have a balanced combination of vowels and consonants as well as their positions. Best tip is to choose from the recommended starting (seed) words. This will help you solve Wordle without possibly breaking your daily streak. A great starting word helps you guess the correct answer in fewer attempts, even if you are a puzzle-solving expert. Fewer (reduced) attempts mean your score is high, because the score is inversely proportional to the number of attempts to solve the puzzle. For example, you can reduce your attempts from 4 to 3 (reducing attempts from four to three) and 5 to 4 (reducing attempts from five to four) etc. It is because starting with the best words have the character inclusion and variation, which covers most of the Oxford’s 5-letter dictionary words used by Wordle. The best start words are either chosen based on the statistical prominence of the successful word or the personal preferences of the player. These words often consist of the most common and frequent letters for English words. Words with these frequent occurring consonants along with vowel rich words are better candidates for the best starting words for Wordle.
What are the Best Start Words?
Various sources suggest different starting words. The best start words are presented as the following:
- CRANE
- TALES
- SAUCY
- ROATE
- STARE
- SALET
Choose a Unique Second Word
It is unlikely that you will get the correct answer on the first guess. The second word you choose will obviously depend on what your first word was, as you won’t want to repeat any letters you’ve already used. Use the information collected from the yellow tiles and choose a unique second word to enter for the second guess that contains entirely different letters. It will help you find success in Wordle.
There are two recommended ways to choose the second word:
Choose a completely different word for the second guess to maximise the information about the not present (gray) letters. Use the second word as PHONY, if you have chosen the word from the above list of best start words. It is a statistically better option as a second word, because Y is the 2nd most frequent letter on position 5.
Alternatively, choose a vowel-rich word which is not from the above list of the best starter words. It means that this word will be like the starting word but with elimination in mind. Eliminate the letters with the knowledge gained from the grey tiles from the first guess.
What are smart second-word strategies?
Use words that test unused letters. If SLATE shows no green or yellow tiles, use ROUND or CHIMP next. This approach checks fresh vowels and consonants while building new patterns.
Wordlebot uses CRANE as the starting word these days. Choosing SAUCY as the 2nd word gives us quite some info about the letter positions and vowel-consonant possibilities.
Use the process of elimination
Part of the Wordle game is about the process of elimination. We have to eliminate the words which are not a possible answer, and maximise the knowledge of possible letters and their respective positions.
Enter a guess that eliminates all but 1 possible solution. The puzzle can be solved in 2 guesses this way. There is a special case of the elimination strategy. Sometimes one of the possible solutions itself works as an elimination word.
How do we refine guesses with limited info?
We track letter positions and eliminate options. If only one letter is confirmed, we try different placements. Each attempt helps us build a mental model of the word’s structure.
Avoid Unlikely Answers ❌
Some words are excluded from the list of possible solutions in addition to the answer being from the dictionary words. Wordle has a dedicated editor, Tracy Bennett, assigned in November 2022 by the NY Times. She manually removed a set of too obscure or vulgar words from the possible answers to cater to wider users. Therefore, you should exclude such kinds of words from your guesses.
About Wordle
Wordle is a simple browser-based word game where your challenge is to guess a five-letter word in maximum of 6 attempts. All guesses have to be from actual English words. Coloured tiles are used for the feedback after each wrong attempted guess. The correctly positioned letter is shown in the green colour and the incorrect letter (which was not supposed to be in the particular position) is shown in yellow. The tile turns grey if none of the letters are in today’s answer.
Origin 📜
Josh Wardle, a software engineer is the creator of Wordle. He made the game public in October of 2021. The game was acquired in early February 2022 for a 7-figure sum by the New York Times Games (NYT Games) in 2022.
Its simplicity made it a successful part of the daily lives of millions of users. Its popularity was also influenced positively due to the pandemic COVID-19. It all started with only 90 users and now 2 million users play it weekly. Google search even created an Easter egg for this puzzle. When one searches for “Wordle”, the site’s logo becomes an animated game of Wordle to find the word “Google”.
How to Play Wordle ✅
Each Wordle begins with six horizontal rows containing five blank boxes. Think of a 5-letter word, and Wordle will tell you if any of the letters are in the word of the day. A green box indicates that you guessed the right character in the correct place. A yellow box indicates that the letter appears in a different spot, and a greyscale box means that a letter doesn’t appear in today’s answer at all. Letters are sometimes repeated within the same word, for example, as in hippo (p), or chock (c).
Where to play
Wordle is played via the NYT Games website and it is entirely free. Follow the steps to play the game:
- Visit the NYTimes Games to start.
- Register or login to your existing NYT Games account. An account is recommended to save your progress and streak.
- Type in your guess and press enter to submit the guess.
- The colour of the tiles will change after you submit your word.
- The game will end if you have guessed the correct answer for today, or you have exhausted the six chances.
- Sharing options: Share your results with your friends or compare them with Wordlebot stats.
- Optional: Explore other games by the NYTimes after playing Wordle.
Wordle Alternatives and Further reading
Wordle alternatives offer a variety of styles and mechanics of word formation and word guessing games. Playing word games has several benefits including cognitive, vocabulary, emotional and social advantages. The following two semantic word-games from the New York Times Games are here to bring more brain power:
NYT Connections
Connections is a semantic word game that challenges players to find themes between words. Players are given 16 words and find groups of four items that share something in common.
NYT Strands
Strands is a word search game within a 6×8 grid of letters which players use to uncover words falling under a theme. The board must be filled entirely to complete the puzzle – no words will overlap. Each game includes a challenge word called the “spangram,” that touches two opposite sides of the board.
Word games by other publishers
Each of the following word games resembles Wordle, but they add more rows, columns and words to solve them. These games require you to simultaneously solve a different number of words at once.
Dordle
You guess multiple words at once in Dordle. You have to guess two words at once using two boards. Dordle lets you keep playing with new puzzles if you choose the “free dordle” option.
Quordle
Quordle is a Wordle variation where you four five-letter words at once. It is more difficult than Dordle.
Octordle
You get clues as to which letters are in each word and which aren’t and which ones are simply in the wrong places. Guess all eight OCTORDLE words in 13 tries.
Sedecordle
Words must be solved one at a time. It’s like Wordle, but you solve 16 puzzles at once! You get 21 guesses to solve all the puzzles. You are allowed to play unlimited puzzles in Sedecordle.
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FAQ
Yes. All guesses have to be from actual English words.
No. Wordle uses American English spellings.
Yes. All plural nouns are accepted as valid Wordle guesses.
Yes, but plural nouns that end in S or ES aren’t used as answers.
Yes. All past tense verbs are allowed as guesses.
Yes, but past tense verbs ending in ED are not allowed as answers.
Yes, at least in the first two guesses.
No. Any word which has been the answer of a past Wordle can not be a solution of future games. Although, it can only be used as a guess.
Yes. Googling “Wordle answer” is cheating. Peeking at somebody else’s screen when they’re solving is cheating.
No. Its in the grey area. Checking for Wordle hint is not ideal but it is not cheating especially if you disclose it.
Why today’s hint not updated yet?
did anyone notice today’s word has only 1 consonant? (ISSUE -> repeated S). quite rare.
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The Sword did me Tizzy. lol
The first letter helps big time!
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Why are you posting the answer in the picture? Its a spoiler.