NYT Wordle today — answer and my hints for game #1325, Monday, February 3

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.

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Wordle hints (game #1325) - clue #1 - Vowels

* 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 #1325) - clue #2 - first letter

R is a surprisingly uncommon starting letter. Despite ranking third overall in Wordle, it's merely the 11th most likely to begin an answer.

Wordle hints (game #1325) - clue #3 - repeated letters

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 Wordle doesn't have one.

Wordle hints (game #1325) - clue #4 - ending letter

E is the most common letter to end a Wordle answer by far. That's one of the reasons why many of the best start words, including SLATE, CRANE, CRATE and STARE, all end with one.

Wordle hints (game #1325) - clue #5 - last chance

Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1325.

• Today's Wordle answer is a theatrical production.

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.

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Today's Wordle answer (game #1325)

• NYT average score: 4.2
• My score: 4
• WordleBot's score: 4
• Best start word performance*: TRACE CRATE (42 remaining answers)
• My start word performance: WAIST (616)

* From WordleBot's Top 20 start words

Today's Wordle answer (game #1325) is… REVUE.

Here's a slightly harder Wordle than the previous few. WordleBot, that digital expert in all things Wordle, says it has an average score of 4.2, placing it only a little below the figure for the various ER words we've had in recent days. In fact, if you exclude ER words from the reckoning, it's the most difficult game of 2025 so far; you'd have to go back to MAMBO on December 29 for a tougher one.

At first glance it's not entirely obvious why. Sure, there's a repeated E in it – but that was also the case with the CREPE, which was solved in 3.8 guesses on average. As my analysis of every Wordle answer shows, E is by far the most likely letter to be repeated, as well being the most common letter overall and the most common at the end of a word.

You could look instead at the V. But there was a V in Saturday's RIVET, and that also came in at 3.8. Maybe it's the combination of repeated E and V? Well, NERVE had that format on January 1, and was still only a 4.0.

I suspect the relative obscurity of the word is a bigger factor. No, it's not truly obscure like BORAX (I still haven't forgiven the NYT for that one), but when most people think of the word that sounds like that they think of the type we here at TechRadar specialize in: a review, not a REVUE.

I scored a four, as did WordleBot, and I'll consider that a victory given that for the second day in a row I crashed and burned on the first guess. WAIST could have been a useful opening in plenty of circumstances, but today it left 616 options for me. That said, few of the best Wordle start words were big hits today. A couple – including TRACE and CRATE – dipped under 50, but there were none of the average-skewing single-figure results we saw yesterday.

My second guess was not particularly original; I went with CRONE, which was essentially the best start word (CRANE) with my already-gray A swapped for an O. This worked pretty well, confirming the E at the end and giving me a yellow R too. I now only had nine words left, WordleBot told me afterwards, but I only found seven: PURGE, MERGE, VERGE, VERVE, PUREE, RUPEE and REVUE. The other two were RHYME and RUBLE, the 'Bot said. The latter would never have occurred to me, but given that RUPEE did, that's an oversight on my part. Then again, I knew RUPEE had been a past Wordle answer, which is probably why I spotted it (then ruled it out).

The answer was now in sight. I worked out that if I played VERGE it was guaranteed to give me the answer among the words I'd found, so even though I knew it had been an answer before I played it anyway. VERGE did the trick, giving me the second E and yellow V that left only REVUE as an option.

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Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1324)

In a different time zone where it's still Sunday? Don't worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1324, too.

• Wordle yesterday had vowels 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).

• The first letter in yesterday's Wordle answer was C.

C is a very common starting letter in Wordle – in fact, it's the second most common of all, behind only S.

• There were no repeated letters in yesterday'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 Wordle doesn't have one.

• The last letter in yesterday's Wordle was E.

E is the most common letter to end a Wordle answer by far. That's one of the reasons why many of the best start words, including SLATE, CRANE, CRATE and STARE, all end with one.

Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1324.

• Yesterday's Wordle answer is an unwanted task.

Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1324)

• NYT average score: 3.1
• My score: 4
• WordleBot's score: 3
• Best start word performance*: CRANE, CRATE (3 remaining answers)
• My start word performance: BYLAW (936)

* From WordleBot's Top 20 start words

Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1324) was… CHORE.

CHORE is notable for one reason only: it's easy. Really, really easy.

Or at least it is if your start word was CRANE, WordleBot's top pick of the best Wordle start words overall; yesterday, it left only three possible answers, as did CRATE. With STARE also faring incredibly well (just seven words remaining there), it has an incredibly low average score of 3.1.

This makes it the equal eighth easiest ever, level with PLANT, ATONE, CLOSE, TRADE, SALTY and TEACH and behind only TRAIN, STALE, RAISE, STARE and REACH (all 3.0), PLATE (2.9) and SLATE (1.5 – which still seems bizarre).

You may have noticed a theme with those words, in that most have the same format of common consonant followed by an L, R or T, then an O or A in the middle, then another common consonant, then an E. CLOSE, TRADE, STALE, STARE, PLATE and SLATE all have that pattern, and so does CHORE.

Well, to an extent – the second letter is the slightly less common H, obviously. But when paired with C at the beginning of an answer, it's incredibly common: fifth behind ST, SH, CR and SP, as outlined in my analysis of every Wordle answer.

It's unlikely to cause problems even for those of you whose start word was not quite so fortunate, although you may have ended up with a four unless you got lucky. I didn't initially, with my opening BYLAW drawing a blank and leaving 900-plus possible answers.

My second guess was not much better; WordleBot loved SIREN and awarded it 98/99 for SKILL (TRICE and TRIES were the only better ones), but it was incredibly unlucky and still left 41 words.

I worked hard to identify as many of those as I could, but didn't go overboard; once I get to about 20 I realize there's only a very slim chance of me getting it right next guess and instead focus on finding a good narrowing-down word for the pattern that's forming.

Here, I had a yellow E and R but knew it wasn't an ER answer. E would almost certainly be at the end, with R in second position, probably after a C, but maybe a T, B or P. I went with TROPE in the end, because it enabled me to include two of those four, and finally got some success: the O and E turned green, but the R stayed yellow.

This was actually really lucky, because if the R had also gone green I'd have had to choose between four words, DROVE, ERODE, FROZE and GROVE. Instead, I had just one. That was CHORE, and I played it next for a slightly underwhelming four.

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, or check out my past Wordle answers page for the full list.

• Wordle #1324, Sunday 2 February: CHORE
• Wordle #1323, Saturday 1 February: RIVET
• Wordle #1322, Friday 31 January: TOAST
• Wordle #1321, Thursday 30 January: FALSE
• Wordle #1320, Wednesday 29 January: UDDER
• Wordle #1319, Tuesday 28 January: FEVER
• Wordle #1318, Monday 27 January: SHUNT
• Wordle #1317, Sunday 26 January: SUNNY
• Wordle #1316, Saturday 25 January: CRISP
• Wordle #1315, Friday 24 January: CREPE
• Wordle #1314, Thursday 23 January: UPPER
• Wordle #1313, Wedneday 22 January: REACH
• Wordle #1312, Tuesday 21 January: ICING
• Wordle #1311, Monday 20 January: SQUID
• Wordle #1310, Sunday 19 January: ROWER
• Wordle #1309, Saturday 18 January: SILLY
• Wordle #1308, Friday 17 January: PROSE
• Wordle #1307, Thursday 16 January: FLINT
• Wordle #1306, Wednesday 15 January: KNACK
• Wordle #1305, Tuesday 14 January: FANCY
• Wordle #1304, Monday 13 January: CLOAK
• Wordle #1303, Sunday 12 January: TOTAL
• Wordle #1302, Saturday 11 January: DINGY
• Wordle #1301, Friday 10 January: CRAWL
• Wordle #1300, Thursday 9 January: WAFER
• Wordle #1299, Wednesday 8 January: DRAFT
• Wordle #1298, Tuesday 7 January: ATLAS
• Wordle #1297, Monday 6 January: SPRIG
• Wordle #1296, Sunday 5 January: CYBER
• Wordle #1295, Saturday 4 January: RELAX
• Wordle #1294, Friday 3 January: CHEAP
• Wordle #1293, Thursday 2 January: CHOSE
• Wordle #1292, Wednesday 1 January: NERVE
• Wordle #1291, Tuesday 31 December: LEMUR
• Wordle #1290, Monday 30 December: STARE
• Wordle #1289, Sunday 29 December: MAMBO
• Wordle #1288, Saturday 28 December: DECRY
• Wordle #1287, Friday 27 December: GRAIN
• Wordle #1286, Thursday 26 December: AFFIX
• Wordle #1285, Wednesday 25 December: SHARE
• Wordle #1284, Tuesday 24 December: EAGLE
• Wordle #1283, Monday 23 December: SAUNA
• Wordle #1282, Sunday 22 December: BRAWN
• Wordle #1281, Saturday 21 December: BLADE
• Wordle #1280, Friday 20 December: FLASH
• Wordle #1279, Thursday 19 December: STRAY
• Wordle #1278, Wednesday 18 December: HEFTY
• Wordle #1277, Tuesday 17 December: SCOWL
• Wordle #1276, Monday 16 December: BOAST
• Wordle #1275, Sunday 15 December: FUNKY
• Wordle #1274, Saturday 14 December: DROOL

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 our What is Wordle page, but if you just want a refresher then here are the basics.