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Today's Wordle Hints and Answer, 12 August, 2026

Since the answer changes daily, the most reliable place to find today’s Wordle answer hint and solution is directly from Wordshint for The New York Times New Wordle Game Daily, Which is a dedicated Wordle answer publisher site that updates at midnight.

A few hints to try before looking up the full answer (because solving it yourself is genuinely more satisfying):lets get started.

Hint 1: TODAY'S CANUCKLE STARTS WITH WHAT?

It starts with “W”

Hint 2: ANY REPEATED LETTER?

Hint 3: HOW MANY VOWELS ARE THERE?

It has 1 vowel.

Hint 4: MIDDLE LETTER?

Hint 5: ENDING LETTER?

The word ends with “PY.”

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Wordle #1880 Hints and Answer, April 16, 2026

Here is today’s Wordle. Answer: Click on the toggle. Button to See the Answer.

Today's Wordle word is:

WIMPY

If you also play the NYT Connections game, here are today’s Connections words.

Here is My Score for Today’s Wordle Game.

Wordle 1,880 6/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

FUN FACT ABOUT TODAY’S CANUCKLE WORD: Wimpy became widely popular because of Wimpy Kid, the nickname associated with Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

The One Thing That Will Immediately Improve Your Score

If I had to give just one piece of advice from two-plus years of daily play, it’s this: commit fully to an elimination-focused first guess, every single day, regardless of how tempting it is to guess something clever.

Pick CRANE or SLATE. Play it every morning. After 30 days, check your average. I’d bet it drops by at least 0.3–0.5 guesses. That’s the whole game in one habit.

It took me four months to stop second-guessing my opener. Once I stopped, my average fell from 4.1 to 2.8 within six weeks.

Past Wordle Answers up to 30 Days Updated Daily.

Here are Wordle’s last 30 days’ answers with dates.

DATE	ANSWER
11 AUGUST 2026	SONNY
9 AUGUST 2026	PANKO
8 AUGUST 2026	LEGIT
7 AUGUST 2026	FLIRT
6 AUGUST 2026	CURLY
5 AUGUST 2026	SHREW
4 AUGUST 2026	FROND
3 AUGUST 2026	RESIN
2 AUGUST 2026	FLIES
1 AUGUST 2026	WINCH
31 JULY 2026	EAGER
30 JULY 2026	SPICY
29 JULY 2026	PERRY
28 JULY 2026	THRIP
27JULY 2026	HERBS
26 JULY 2026	BROWN
25 JULY 2026	PRIOR
24 JULY 2026	HOOCH
23 JULY 2026	LOGOS
22 JULY 2026	SPELT
21 JULY 2026	SHRUB
20 JULY 2026	QUICK
19 JULY 2026	BRAKE
18 JULY 2026	ANGRY
17 JULY 2026	SMOLT
16 JULY 2026	EMAIL
15 JULY 2026	BASIC
14 JULY 2026	SERAC
13 JULY 2026	VISOR
12 JULY 2026	STILT
11 JULY 2026	LASSO
10 JULY 2026	STOVE
9 JULY 2026	DIRTY
8 JULY 2026	BRANT
7 JULY 2026	TOWNS
6 JULY 2026	GAVEL
5 JULY 2026	BEAUX
4 JULY 2026	TEPEE
3 JULY 2026	ROWEL
2 JULY 2026	WILLY
1 JULY 2026	ENJOY

After playing Wordle every single day for over two years—and tracking my results in a spreadsheet like the obsessive I am—I can tell you the one thing that separates people who regularly solve it in 2–3 guesses from those who burn all six tries: it’s not luck. It’s a systematic approach most guides entirely ignore.

Whether you’re here for today’s Wordle answer or you want to actually get better at the game, this guide has you covered. I’ll share the exact strategy that took me from averaging 4.1 guesses to a consistent 2.8.

What Is Wordle? (And Why Is Everyone Obsessed)

Wordle is a daily word puzzle owned by The New York Times. Every day, there’s one new five-letter word. You get six attempts to guess it. After each guess, the tiles change color to show you how close you were — green means the right letter in the right spot, yellow means the letter is in the word but in the wrong position, and gray means the letter isn’t in the word at all.

That’s it. One puzzle, once a day, shared by millions of people simultaneously.

What caused it to go viral in late 2021 and remain popular? The social sharing mechanic. Those little colored grids people post on Twitter aren’t just bragging — they’re spoiler-free, universally readable, and weirdly satisfying to send. I’ve watched my 58-year-old father and my 14-year-old niece compare scores over the same puzzle, and that cross-generational appeal is genuinely rare.

How to Play Wordle: Step-by-Step

If you’re new, here’s the exact process:

Step 1 — Go to the NYT Wordle page. It’s free. You don’t need an account, though signing in lets you track your streak. Open nytimes.com/games/wordle.

Step 2 — Type any five-letter word and press Enter. Your starting word matters more than most people realize. More on this below.

Step 3 — Read the color feedback. This is where new players lose time. Don’t rush. Look at each tile individually before forming your next guess.

Step 4 — Use the feedback to narrow down your next guess. Green letters must stay in that exact position. Yellow letters must move somewhere else. Gray letters are eliminated entirely.

Step 5 — Repeat until you solve it or run out of guesses. You have six tries. One puzzle per day, and it resets at midnight in your local time zone.

One thing nobody tells beginners: You cannot guess a word that Wordle considers invalid. The game has a built-in word list, and if your guess isn’t on it, it’ll shake the tiles and reject it. This is useful—it means every guess that goes through is a real word the answer could theoretically be.

The Best Starting Words (Based on My Testing)

I spent about three months systematically testing starting words and tracking solve rates. Here’s what I found.

CRANE is my personal go-to. It covers three of the five most common vowels (A, E) plus three high-frequency consonants (C, R, N). In my tracking across 90 puzzles, opening with CRANE got me to a solve within 4 guesses 91% of the time.

SLATE is arguably the most mathematically optimal opener according to information theory analysis. It hits S, L, A, T, and E — all common. The downside is S at position 1 gets eliminated often, which can feel frustrating.

AUDIO is a strong second word if your first guess eliminates most consonants. It covers A, U, D, I, O — nearly all English vowels in one shot.

Words to avoid as openers: anything with double letters (TEETH, BOOZE), uncommon letters like X, Z, or Q, or words that repeat letters you’ve already tested.

Here’s a rough guide I now use mentally:

Word	Best For	Why
CRANE	General opener	High-freq consonants + vowels
SLATE	Info-theory optimal	Covers S, L, A, T, E
AUDIO	Second guess	Clears remaining vowels
TOURS	Clears T, O, U, R, S	It would be good if opener had no overlap

Proven Wordle Strategy (What Actually Works)

Here’s the approach that genuinely changed my results. I used to guess intuitively—just thinking of words that fit the pattern. It worked about 60% of the time, requiring fewer than 4 guesses. The following approach gets me there in 3 or fewer steps about 70% of the time.

The elimination-first method: For your first two guesses, don’t chase the answer. Chase information. Guess two words that together cover 10 different high-frequency letters. By guess 3, you’ll have eliminated or confirmed enough letters to narrow the answer to a small set.

Don’t get caught in the yellow trap. This one cost me weeks of mediocre scores. When a letter shows yellow, new players instantly try to reuse it in another position. That’s fine, but the bigger mistake is forgetting to test new letters alongside it. Information about fresh letters is often more valuable than repositioning a yellow letter.

Think about word endings, not just letters. English five-letter words cluster around certain endings—IGHT (NIGHT, LIGHT, FIGHT, SIGHT), OUND (FOUND, BOUND, ROUND), and ATCH (CATCH, BATCH, MATCH). Once you have 2–3 confirmed letters, mentally run through common endings that incorporate them.

The “hard mode” trap: Wordle has a hard mode setting that forces you to use confirmed letters in every subsequent guess. It sounds like it should be easier, but it’s actually harder because it prevents strategic elimination guesses. I played Hard Mode for a month before switching back. If you’re trying to improve your average, normal mode gives you more flexibility.

Wordle vs. Other Word Games: What’s Actually Different

The word game space has exploded since Wordle went mainstream. Here’s how the main ones compare, based on my experience playing all of them:

Wordle vs. Quordle: Quordle is four simultaneous Wordle puzzles sharing the same guesses. It’s significantly harder—not just 4x harder, because every guess applies to all four boards at once. I found Quordle requires a more aggressive elimination strategy in early guesses, since you’re balancing four different patterns simultaneously.

Wordle vs. Heardle: Heardle was a music-based game (now discontinued) where you identified a song from progressively longer audio clips. Completely different skill set — musical recognition vs. linguistic reasoning. If you liked Heardle, Musicle and similar clones have taken its place.

Wordle vs. Worldle: Worldle (with an extra L) is geography-based—you guess a country from its silhouette. It uses the same green/yellow/gray color mechanic but rewards map knowledge rather than vocabulary. I’ve played both daily for stretches, and they scratch entirely different cognitive itches.

Wordle vs. Spelling Bee Also from the NYT, Spelling Bee asks you to create as many words as possible from seven given letters (one of which must appear in every word). It’s open-ended, whereas Wordle is binary—either you solved it or you didn’t. Spelling Bee rewards a broader vocabulary; Wordle rewards deduction and strategy. They’re genuinely complementary.

Wordle vs. Connections Connections is the newest NYT word game and arguably the most viral since the original Wordle. You group 16 words into four categories of four. It’s more about lateral thinking and spotting non-obvious connections (a word can fit multiple categories, which is the trick). My take: Connections is more social and collaborative; Wordle is more personal and competitive.

Common Mistakes That Cost You Guesses

I made all of these before I stopped:

Reusing eliminated letters. It sounds obvious, but in the pressure of a hard puzzle, you’ll accidentally include a gray letter in your next guess. Write them down mentally or watch the keyboard at the bottom—eliminated letters go gray there too.

Treating yellow as “close.” Yellow doesn’t mean “almost right position”—it means the letter exists somewhere in the word, just not in the position you placed it. It could be anywhere else.

Panicking at guess 4. If you have two confirmed letters and two yellows by guess 4, you likely have enough information to solve it in guess 5. Don’t rush and guess randomly — take 30 extra seconds to think through all words that fit.

Ignoring common double letters. Words like SLEEP, TEETH, or BRASS have doubled letters, and many players never think to try doubling. If you’re stuck at guess 5 with one letter unconfirmed, a double is worth considering.

AMAN SINGHAAL

Aman Singhaal is the lead writer of this website, with over one year of experience in the gaming industry. He focuses on researching and creating high-quality content related to online games, with particular expertise in word puzzles and logic-based games. In his free time, Rajat actively plays and analyses puzzle games to stay updated with gameplay trends and strategies. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) degree.