Wordle Hints and Insights for Game #1500
If you’re looking for a guide to today’s Wordle answer, you’ve come to the right place. This article includes my commentary on the latest puzzle, along with hints to help you keep your streak going.
If you don’t need any clues for today’s Wordle, feel free to skip ahead to my daily column. Just remember that failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.
For more word-based fun, check out Vmeetsolutions’s Quordle page for hints and answers. You can also take a look at our NYT Strands and NYT Connections pages for our 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.
Wordle Hints (Game #1500)
- Clue #1 – Vowels: How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
- The Wordle has a vowel in one place.
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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).
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Clue #2 – First Letter: What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
- The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is S.
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S is the most common starting letter in the game, appearing in 365 of Wordle’s 2,309 answers.
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Clue #3 – Repeated Letters: Does today’s Wordle have any repeated letters?
- There are repeated letters in today’s Wordle.
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Repeated letters are quite common in the game, with 748 of the 2,309 Wordle answers containing one.
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Clue #4 – Ending Letter: What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
- The last letter in today’s Wordle is Y.
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Y is the second most common ending letter in the game, behind only E.
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Clue #5 – Last Chance: Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1500.
- Today’s Wordle answer is shrewd and knowledgeable.
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 #1500)
- NYT Average Score: 4.8
- My Score: 4
- WordleBot’s Score: 3
- My Skill Score: 95
- My Luck Score: 39
- My Start Word Performance: EKING (639 remaining answers)
- WordleBot’s Start Word Performance: SLATE (22)
- Tomorrow’s Start Word: PRUDE
Today’s Wordle answer (game #1500) is SAVVY.
Happy 1,500th birthday, Wordle! You don’t look a day over 1,000…
We’re well over halfway through the game’s run now, with somewhere between 800 and 900 words to go in all likelihood. Still, that gives us a minimum of 2.5 years at least, so there’s plenty more Wordle fun to come.
Today’s game wasn’t much fun for most people; it has an average score right now of 4.8. However, it was a word that brought back some memories to me, because my first childhood cat was actually named SAVVY.
A mean old ginger thing, SAVVY used to terrify and terrorize me in equal measure. His favorite pastime appeared to be sleeping on my bed, while I was in it, and refusing to let me out from under the covers, swiping at me if I dared to move to the extent that I’d have to call my mum to rescue me. Happy days.
As a Wordle word, SAVVY is every bit as fearsome, with that 4.8 implying it’s yet another tough one for the month. I haven’t crunched the numbers yet, but I suspect July 2025 may be the game’s hardest ever.
The game’s high score is no major surprise to me, because a double-V is not exactly a likely occurrence. There are only four games among the 2,309 original solutions that contain a repeated V, and only one of them – SAVVY – has them next to each other. On the plus side, you won’t need to worry about it happening again, eh?
I escaped with a four, thanks to a steady game that started badly. EKING gave me zero letters and left 639 options, but ROAST was exactly what the ‘Bot would have played too, and reduced those to 17.
I moved my yellow S to its most likely position at the start, and decided that with E, N, R and T all ruled out, there was a good chance the word would end with Y, so put that at the end and played SPLAY.
This left only two words: SAUCY and SAVVY. And here I had a slice of luck; I didn’t think of the first of those, which was fortunate as I’m sure I would have played it next if I had. Instead, I went with SAVVY and beat the average.
Yesterday’s Wordle Hints (Game #1499)
In a different time zone where it’s still Sunday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1499, too.
- Vowels: Yesterday’s Wordle had vowels in two places.
- First Letter: The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was W.
- Repeated Letters: There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
- Ending Letter: The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was E.
- Extra Clue: Yesterday’s Wordle answer is entire, complete.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1499) was WHOLE.
Wordle Answers: The Past 50
I’ve been playing Wordle every day for more than three 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:
- Wordle #1499: WHOLE
- Wordle #1498: HAUNT
- Wordle #1497: GOFER
- Wordle #1496: QUAKE
- Wordle #1495: WATER
- Wordle #1494: BURNT
- Wordle #1493: TIZZY
- Wordle #1492: BLANK
- Wordle #1491: SWORD
- Wordle #1490: LORIS
- Wordle #1489: MODAL
- Wordle #1488: NERVY
- Wordle #1487: FOIST
- Wordle #1486: UNDID
- Wordle #1485: GNOME
- Wordle #1484: EXILE
- Wordle #1483: BRAND
- Wordle #1482: JUMPY
- Wordle #1481: NOVEL
- Wordle #1480: DREAD
- Wordle #1479: STILT
- Wordle #1478: ATRIA
- Wordle #1477: BALER
- Wordle #1476: CURVE
- Wordle #1475: POPPY
- Wordle #1474: INCUR
- Wordle #1473: MOLDY
- Wordle #1472: BLINK
- Wordle #1471: WITTY
- Wordle #1470: STUMP
- Wordle #1469: PLAIN
- Wordle #1468: OFFER
- Wordle #1467: COMFY
- Wordle #1466: ELITE
- Wordle #1465: ODDLY
- Wordle #1464: THRUM
- Wordle #1463: GLADE
- Wordle #1462: TAPE
- Wordle #1461: CURIO
- Wordle #1460: MUNCH
- Wordle #1459: PRANK
- Wordle #1458: PETTY
- Wordle #1457: QUAIL
- Wordle #1456: GHOST
- Wordle #1455: BILGE
- Wordle #1454: VIXEN
- Wordle #1453: PLAID
- Wordle #1452: TAFFY
- Wordle #1451: BOARD
- Wordle #1450: LEASE
- Wordle #1449: REUSE
What is Wordle?
If you’re on this page, 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 in 2022 and is still going strong in 2025.
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’ Games 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.
- Letters that are in the answer and in the right place turn green.
- Letters that are in the answer but in the wrong place turn yellow.
- Letters that are not in the answer turn gray.
- Answers are never plural.
- 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.
- Each guess must be a valid word in Wordle’s dictionary. You can’t guess ABCDE, for instance.
- You do not have to include correct letters in subsequent guesses unless you play on Hard mode.
- You have six guesses to solve the Wordle.
- You must complete the daily Wordle before midnight in your timezone.
- All answers are drawn from Wordle’s list of 2,309 solutions. However…
- 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.
- The NYT has added in some of its own words, that weren’t in that list of 2,309 solutions. More will undoubtedly come over the next few years.
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