Today’s Wordle answer is potentially a tricky one to start the month. I say potentially, because the NYT’s WordleBot tool says people are solving it in an average of 3.8, which isn’t too bad. However, ‘Wordle 347 X’ is trending worldwide on Twitter — and that usually indicates it’s a tough one.
With that in mind, you might find some hints to be helpful. After all, Wordle is a deceptively simple game and failure is only ever six guesses away.
I’ve played every Wordle so far and lost only once, so I’ve got plenty of Wordle tips and tricks to share. I’ve also analyzed every Wordle answer to look for patterns and got some further advice for you there. And if you’re new to the game you should also take a look at my What is Wordle? guide.
Each day, I’ll be updating this article with tips to help you find today’s Wordle answer. And if the hints aren’t enough, I’ll even give you the solution, in case you’re really stuck or just haven’t had time to complete today’s puzzle. I’ve also included my analysis of yesterday’s puzzle, #346, in case you’re reading this in a different time zone.
So be warned: spoilers lie ahead for game #347. Only read on if you want to know today’s Wordle answer!
PS: If you’re a music fan then also check out our guide to today’s Heardle answer.
Today’s Wordle answer #347 — hints to help you solve it
My first tip is that you should use one of the best Wordle start words for every game you play. But if you want some more specific clues to today’s Wordle answer then here you go:
- It has two vowels*
- There are no repeated letters
- It starts with a very common starting letter
* By vowel I’m meaning A, E, I, O, U. There are other letters that are sometimes considered to be vowels, depending on how they are used.
Those hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today’s Wordle answer. If not, then you can read on for a bigger clue; or, if you just want to know the answer, then skip down further for that.
Alright then, here’s my final hint: Today’s Wordle answer is a noise.
OK, it’s time to scroll down for the answer…
Today’s Wordle answer #347, Wednesday, June 1
So, what is today’s Wordle answer for game #347?
Drumroll please — it’s CREAK.
This is a difficult one to assess, difficulty-wise. As I said up top, the NYT’s WordleBot tool is reporting an average of 3.8 guesses to solve this one so far. But I wouldn’t be surprised if that figure rose as the day went on, because ‘Wordle 347 X’ is trending on Twitter worldwide. That typically doesn’t happen unless lots of people are losing their streaks — and that typically doesn’t happen unless the average score is a lot higher than 3.8.
One possibility here is that your starting word may make a huge difference. For instance, anyone playing WordleBot’s favored CRANE will have had just two possible solutions left after their first guess. So, assuming most people playing that got it in either 2/6 or 3/6, that might be bringing down the overall average, despite the many people who are seemingly failing to find today’s answer.
So, why might it be a difficult one? Well it’s not the word itself, particularly: according to Word and Phrase Info (opens in new tab)‘s list of the most frequently used English words, CREAK is in 12,858th place, which makes it more common than any of the previous three games.
Most of the letters used are also very common; as I show in my analysis of every Wordle answer, E, A and R are the top three in order of frequency, while C is at 10th overall and second as a starting letter. Not only that, but CR is, statistically, the third most common starting combination; only ST and SH are more likely to be found there.
K is less common overall — only 20th — but it’s very common as an ending letter, featuring in 113 answers there. In fact, it’s the 10th most likely letter to be found at the end of a Wordle answer, ahead of A, O, P, M and several other letters that are more common in general.
So, as with yesterday’s game (see below), this all makes it sound like today should have been easy. But once again, you may have suffered due to there being too many options.
That’s the problem with common letters: the fact they feature in lots of answers also inevitably means you may end up with lots of answers to choose from!
That’s kind of what happened with me today, but I got lucky and didn’t struggle as I did yesterday.
As always, I started with my choice of the best Wordle start words, STARE. This gave me a yellow A, R and E — and left me with 47 options, according to WordleBot.
On the plus side, I didn’t have to work through those options for too long, because I already had a list. Wordle #335, about two weeks ago, had exactly the same pattern. The answer on that day was GAMER and it nearly cost me my 147-strong official streak. But what it also did was leave me with a list of possible answers, that I’d spent about an hour compiling on that day.
I knew I was going to play a word with the format -A-ER next, as there were far more words that fit that pattern than anything else: CAPER and LAYER and WAGER and so on. But I also wanted to include a K, because CREAK, FREAK and WREAK were also options.
So, I played BAKER. This had the advantage of being an -A-ER game, while also including the K (and also a common starting letter, in B).
BAKER wasn’t correct, but it proved to be a good choice: in fact, it left me with just those three options remaining, all of which ended -REAK.
Yesterday, I made a mistake in a similar position by not playing the word with the most common letter first. I wasn’t about to do that today, so I went with CREAK — because C is more common than F or W — and that proved to be the answer.
I’m definitely happy with a score of 3/6 today, on what could have been a streak-ending game. Let me know how you did in the comments or via email (opens in new tab) — and if you have already got in touch then apologies for the delay in replying, you will get a response soon (honest)!
Yesterday’s Wordle answer #346, Tuesday, May 31
Reading this in another time zone where it’s still Tuesday? The Wordle answer for game #346 was MANOR.
Though the NYT’s WordleBot tool says people found it in an average of 3.8 guesses, which is only just above Monday’s game, this is a rather different puzzle to that one.
On the one hand, it’s an easier word than Monday’s ATOLL, or indeed Sunday’s BAYOU, Saturday’s CREPT and Friday’s TIARA — at least as far as letter formation goes.
Every letter here is in a reasonably common place. There are two common vowels, three common consonants, and as I show in my analysis of every Wordle answer, R is a very common ending letter (it ranks fourth in this regard).
To dig into it slightly more, MA is quite a common starting combination, too — there are 34 games with this format, and it’s the 11th most likely two-letter combo at the front of the word. OR also features in 34 answers as the ending combination (although it’s only 19th in the list).
Nor is it a particularly obscure word. According to Word and Phrase Info (opens in new tab)‘s list of the most frequently used English words, it’s in 16,659th place, which makes it a fair bit more common than either of the previous two games.
That all adds up to an easy Wordle to solve then, right? Well, possibly. And that’s where the luck bit comes in.
Luck always plays a big role in Wordle; it’s why WordleBot gives a luck rating along with a skill rating. But however smart you are, and however carefully you choose your guesses, you can only directly affect one of those two scores.
My game today perfectly illustrates that: I scored a 92 for skill but only a 40 for luck — which added up to a 5/6 game overall.
I’m not complaining: I probably should have approached my last couple of guesses differently, and if I’d have done so I might have scored a 4/6. But if luck had been on my side today, it would have been a 3/6. So don’t be too hard on yourself if you suffered for the same reason here.
The reason why luck was potentially crucial today is that it’s one of those words with several solutions using most of the same letters. These games come up every so often when a word has a common format — in this case -A-OR.
There are (I think) nine of these words, or at least nine that feature among Wordle answers: LABOR, VALOR, VAPOR, RAZOR, FAVOR, MANOR, MAYOR, MAJOR and SAVOR. If, like me, you realized after the second guess that the word had this format, you were always going to struggle to narrow it down and score a 3/6 or 4/6 unless you also had a lot of luck.
As always, I started with my choice of the best Wordle start words, STARE. This gave me a yellow A and R — and left me with lots of options right away.
In fact, WordleBot pointed out that I had 64 options remaining at this stage, whereas anyone who played its choice of CRANE only had 10 (on account of having that N in there).
I knew there were lots of options available; there always are with just a couple of yellows to go on. But I spent a little time working through the possibilities anyway, so I could decide what to play next.
I could see that there were quite a few words with the format -A–R, which makes sense as A is the most common second letter and R is the fourth most common ending letter. Other options included RA— (RADIO, RABID, RAPID, RALLY), -AR– (CAROL, CARGO, BARON) or —AR (POLAR, MOLAR). And there were plenty of other ways I could have gone.
Ultimately, I went with the -A–R option, and played LABOR. This was a great choice, as it turned out, and cut my options down to just six possible solutions. So far, so good.
And then the luck bit kicked in.
I was fairly certain that I knew what the six possible answers were: MANOR, MAJOR, MAYOR, FAVOR, VAPOR and RAZOR. And I was therefore faced with a conundrum: guess (fairly) randomly and maybe get a 3/6 but also risk a 5/6 or 6/6? Or play a throwaway word to narrow it down.
I was going to take the latter route, but couldn’t find a word that helped me to do that! The problem was that between them, and discounting the green A, O and R I already had, those six words used eight letters.
M featured in three of them and V in two, so playing MAVEN or something like that might have helped, but I didn’t see how it would make much difference: even if the M turned green, I’d still have a couple of words to choose from.
So I took the other approach and played MAJOR. I didn’t think I risked losing my streak, as a green M would still give me a 5/6 at worst, and if there was no M, I’d have three words left and would get a 6/6 at worst.
As it turned out, the former was what happened: I got the green M, then guessed MAYOR on the fourth go before finally getting MANOR on the fifth.
With hindsight, I think I should probably have scored a three here — if only because N is a more common letter than J or Y. But it wasn’t to be, and I’ll have to settle for a five.
Previous Wordle answers
If you’re looking for a list of older Wordle answers, we can also help. Here’s a list going back 20 games.
- Wordle #346: MANOR
- Wordle #345: ATOLL
- Wordle #344: BAYOU
- Wordle #343: CREPT
- Wordle #342: TIARA
- Wordle #341: ASSET
- Wordle #340: VOUCH
- Wordle #339: ALBUM
- Wordle #338: HINGE
- Wordle #337: MONEY
- Wordle #336: SCRAP
- Wordle #335: GAMER
- Wordle #334: GLASS
- Wordle #333: SCOUR
- Wordle #332: BEING
- Wordle #331: DELVE
- Wordle #330: YIELD
- Wordle #329: METAL
- Wordle #328: TIPSY
- Wordle #327: SLUNG
- Wordle #326: FARCE
Wordle tips — how to win at Wordle
The best tip I can give is to use one of the best Wordle start words. I can’t stress this enough — it makes a massive difference.
Without one, you’ll be scrabbling around in the dark trying (and possibly failing) to find the right five letters (or possibly fewer) out of the 26 possibles. But clever people (not me) have done the math and identified the best start words based on both frequency in English and frequency among Wordle answers. So use them!
Secondly, think about combinations, especially at the start and end. Some options are far more common than others — for instance, SH, ST, CR and CH all feature frequently.
Vowels obviously need consideration too: not all Wordle answers will contain more than one, but plenty do, and some even have three. A good Wordle start word should have used a couple, but if they don’t feature you might well want to try another one or two on your next go.
Plus, remember the Y — this sometimes acts as a surrogate vowel, and is easy to forget. It also appears at the end of plenty of words.
Finally, try out possibilities. So long as you don’t press ‘Enter’ you can try possible answers to see how they look on screen. Put in likely letters plus any you know are definitely in the word, then mentally change one to the other available options. This technique has worked for me multiple times, and it’s particularly helpful when the word in question is not an obvious one (like FJORD or ISLET).
What else should I know about Wordle?
Wordle launched in October 2021, but only grew in popularity towards the end of the year, then went viral in January as the world woke up to its charms. In fact, it proved so successful that The New York Times bought Wordle for a seven-figure sum in early February and the game is now part of NYT Games.
It’s played via the NYT Games website here (opens in new tab), and is entirely free. Both the NYT and the game’s creator, Josh Wardle, have stated that it will remain free. Some people think that Wordle has got harder since the NYT takeover, but it really hasn’t.
Wordle is a simple game in which your challenge is to guess a five-letter word in six attempts. Each time you guess, you’re told which of your chosen letters are in the target word, and whether they are in the right place.
If a letter is in the correct place, it turns green. If it’s in the word but in the wrong place, it turns yellow. And if it’s not in the word at all, it turns gray.
There’s just one puzzle a day, and everyone completes the same one. It resets at midnight each day. You’ll find more information about the game in our What is Wordle? article.
Wordle Alternatives
If you’re eager for another game to pass the time while you wait, we’ve put together a list of the best Wordle alternatives. We also have a page on today’s Quordle answers, because it’s our favorite, and also today’s Heardle answer — because that’s great too.
Other Wordle alternatives to try are the ultra-stressful (but very good) Squabble and the soccer-themed, Who Are Ya?. We also like the geography-based Wordle clone Worldle, the Star Wars-themed SWordle and the math-based Mathler.
There are certainly plenty of options once you’ve finished Wordle for the day!