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NYT Wordle today — answer and my hints for game #1395, Monday, April 14

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NYT Wordle today — answer and my hints for game #1395, Monday, April 14

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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.

Don't think you need any clues for Wordle today? No problem, just skip to my daily column. But remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.

Want more word-based fun? TechRadar's Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that game, and you can also take a look at our NYT Strands today and NYT Connections today 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 #1395) - clue #1 - Vowels

How many vowels does today's Wordle have?

• Wordle today has a vowel in one place*.

* 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 #1395) - clue #2 - first letter

What letter does today's Wordle begin with?

• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is C.

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

Wordle hints (game #1395) - clue #3 - repeated letters

Does today's Wordle have any repeated letters?

• There are no repeated letters in today'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.

Wordle hints (game #1395) - clue #4 - ending letter

What letter does today's Wordle end with?

• The last letter in today's Wordle is T.

T is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – in fact only E and Y are more likely in that position.

Wordle hints (game #1395) - clue #5 - last chance

Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1395.

Today's Wordle answer is at the top of something.

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 #1395)

NYT Wordle answer for game 1395 on a green background — (Image credit: New York Times)

NYT average score: 3.1
My score: 4
WordleBot's score: 3
My start word performance: TOKEN (147 remaining answers)
WordleBot's start word performance: CRANE (10)

Today's Wordle answer (game #1395) is… CREST.

Let's be honest, when Wordle is easy it can be a little formulaic. I'd be quite happy if the NYT announced that it was removing the few hundred easiest answers, to make it all a little more challenging.

OK, so we don't technically know whether a Wordle is easy or not ahead of time, but we can easily predict it. For starters: is it made up of five very common letters? And secondly, do many of the best Wordle start words fare particularly well with it?

Both are true of today's CREST, and it duly has an average score of 3.1. This makes it the equal third easiest of 2025 so far, level with TRACK and CHORE and behind REACH (3.0) and CHASE (2.9).

All five letters are common, obviously; they rank 10th, 3rd, 1st, 8th and 5th respectively. Three of them – C, R and T – also appear in their most common positions.

As far as start words go, meanwhile, CRANE left 10, LEAST, PARSE, TRADE and SLICE six, STARE left five, TASER four, CARTE left three, TRACE, CRATE, CARET and TRICE only two.

And that's just among the top 20 – go outside it and you also have the popular IRATE, RAISE and ARISE at 10, eight and seven respectively.

I did not have such good luck with my first word, and had to settle for yet another four – my ninth in the past 12 games, annoyingly enough.

My opener was TOKEN, which gave me yellow T and E, but left 147 options, about 130 more than many people will have had today.

Still, LEAST was much better, cutting those hundred-plus options to a mere six.

I'd chosen it based on T being very likely to be at the end of the word, given that it definitely wasn't at the start, and therefore S might well go before it. And my hunch was correct, giving me two greens, although the E stayed yellow.

The six words were easy enough to find at this stage: QUEST, GUEST, CHEST, EXIST, CREST and WREST. I needed a word to narrow them down, and CIGAR was perfect; it would guarantee me the answer, whatever happened. Well, unless I'd missed any possibles (but I hadn't).

When the C turned green it immediately ruled out four and left only CHEST and CREST, and with the R turning yellow at the end it confirmed the latter as the answer.

How did you do today? Send me an email or let me know in the comments.

Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1394)

In a different time zone where it's still Sunday? Don't worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1394, 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 L.

L is a surprisingly uncommon starting letter in Wordle. Despite being the sixth most common letter overall, it's only ranked 12th at the beginning of a word.

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 H.

H is a regular visitor to the final spot in a Wordle word. It occurs 137 times at the end of a Wordle answer, making it the sixth most common letter there.

Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1394.

Yesterday's Wordle answer is a human response.

Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1394)

NYT Wordle answer for game 1394 on a green background — (Image credit: New York Times)

NYT average score: 3.6
My score: 4
WordleBot's score: 4
My start word performance: PRIED (507 remaining answers)
WordleBot's start word performance: CRANE (187)

Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1394) was… LAUGH.

LAUGH is the only word in Wordle to end AUGH, but then again it's just about the only word in the entire English language to end with those four letters.

I say 'just about', because there are a few others. But they are all pretty obscure. There's a Scottish word, HAUGH, meaning a meadow by a river, plus FAUGH – which is apparently "used to express contempt, disgust, or abhorrence", according to Merriam-Webster. There's also the much longer USQUEBAUGH, which is the old Scottish and Irish word for whiskey. And no, I had not heard of any of them before.

That might have made yesterday's game easier, but then again there are several words that contain the UGH combination but without the A – for instance OUGHT, BOUGH and TOUGH, all of which have been answers.

More common guesses yesterday were words that had the AU bit, but without the G or H. PAUSE, FAULT, BAULK and CAULK were all played in fairly large numbers, and if you had the L early on were obvious answers to try.

I did have the L as early as the second guess, where SLANT reduced the 507 words left by PRIED to a more manageable 18. But rather than go down the -AUL- route, I decided to go with LOYAL.

This might seem counterintuitive, because I was in one sense wasting a letter by playing it twice when it might only occur once. But then again, playing it at both ends of the word gave me a better chance of turning it green.

WordleBot loved this approach, proclaiming that it was exactly what it would have played too (it had said the same for SLANT). And it also had the desired effect, confirming the L at the start of the word and leaving just one possible solution.

That was LAUGH, and I played it next for a standard, fairly dull, 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 #1394, Sunday 13 April: LAUGH
Wordle #1393, Saturday 12 April: NURSE
Wordle #1392, Friday 11 April: ARROW
Wordle #1391, Thursday 10 April: TURBO
Wordle #1390, Wednesday 9 April: WHEAT
Wordle #1389, Tuesday 8 April: SPARE
Wordle #1388, Monday 7 April: HAZEL
Wordle #1387, Sunday 6 April: VILLA
Wordle #1386, Saturday 5 April: FOAMY
Wordle #1385, Friday 4 April: KRILL
Wordle #1384, Thursday 3 April: SHEAR
Wordle #1383, Wednesday 2 April: CURSE
Wordle #1382, Tuesday 1 April: JEWEL
Wordle #1381, Monday 31 March: BOOTY
Wordle #1380, Sunday 30 March: QUOTA
Wordle #1379, Saturday 29 March: SORRY
Wordle #1378, Friday 28 March: VERSE
Wordle #1377, Thursday 27 March: SHEET
Wordle #1376, Wednesday 26 March: ELBOW
Wordle #1375, Tuesday 25 March: SHELF
Wordle #1374, Monday 24 March: ANGLE
Wordle #1373, Sunday 23 March: DOPEY
Wordle #1372, Saturday 22 March: AMBLE
Wordle #1371, Friday 21 March: NUDGE
Wordle #1370, Thursday 20 March: BASTE
Wordle #1369, Wednesday 19 March: SPARK
Wordle #1368, Tuesday 18 March: TIMER
Wordle #1367, Monday 17 March: LASSO
Wordle #1366, Sunday 16 March: STAMP
Wordle #1365, Saturday 15 March: LADLE
Wordle #1364, Friday 14 March: PIECE
Wordle #1363, Thursday 13 March: CHASE
Wordle #1362, Wednesday 12 March: MANGO
Wordle #1361, Tuesday 11 March: TRACK
Wordle #1360, Monday 10 March: SPITE
Wordle #1359, Sunday 9 March: GREED
Wordle #1358, Saturday 8 March: NAVEL
Wordle #1357, Friday 7 March: TROOP
Wordle #1356, Thursday 6 March: ALERT
Wordle #1355, Wednesday 5 March: SCRUM
Wordle #1354, Tuesday 4 March: CHECK
Wordle #1353, Monday 3 March: SPEAR
Wordle #1352, Sunday 2 March: DEITY
Wordle #1351, Saturday 1 March: HOVER
Wordle #1350, Friday 28 February: FUZZY
Wordle #1349, Thursday 27 February: LODGE
Wordle #1348, Wednesday 26 February: AWARD
Wordle #1347, Tuesday 25 February: DRYER
Wordle #1346, Monday 24 February: GLAND
Wordle #1345, Sunday 23 February: OTTER
Wordle #1344, Saturday 22 February: CREAM

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.

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' Crossword 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.

1. Letters that are in the answer and in the right place turn green.

2. Letters that are in the answer but in the wrong place turn yellow.

3. Letters that are not in the answer turn gray.

4. Answers are never plural.

5. 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.

6. Each guess must be a valid word in Wordle's dictionary. You can't guess ABCDE, for instance.

7. You do not have to include correct letters in subsequent guesses unless you play on Hard mode.

8. You have six guesses to solve the Wordle.

9. You must complete the daily Wordle before midnight in your timezone.

10. All answers are drawn from Wordle's list of 2,309 solutions. However…

11. 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.