Today’s Wordle lands in that sweet spot of “annoyingly specific”: a rare letter sitting right in the middle makes pattern-finding feel a bit like detective work. The good news is the solution itself is clean and straightforward once you know what you’re looking for.
Hints
If you’re still trying to solve, here are the clues without taking the fun out of it—just enough structure to narrow the field fast.
1) Repeats: There are no repeated letters in today’s word.
2) Vowels: The word contains two vowels.
3) First letter: It starts with D.
4) Last letter: It ends with R.
5) Meaning: The answer can refer to a person who plunges into water.
If you like cross-puzzle momentum, you may also enjoy keeping an eye on Connections as you switch games—especially when you’re in the habit of zeroing in on letter patterns and definitions.
Answers
Today’s Wordle answer: DIVER
Yesterday’s Wordle answer: CHURN
Recent Wordle answers: PSHAW (Jul 15), BUTTE (Jul 16), LEGAL (Jul 17), BOOTH (Jul 18)
That “D _ _ _ R” shape is the key: once you lock the starting and ending letters and remember there are no repeats, you can stop guessing broadly and start testing only the vowel placement that fits. The definition helps too—“diver” is one of those words that feels almost obvious once you’re staring at the right pattern.
For more daily puzzle-solving help, including spillover hints for Today’s NYT games, it can be useful to keep a running list of the letter constraints you uncover (like “no repeats” and “two vowels”). Those notes tend to make the next puzzle feel faster, even when it’s harder.
And if you’re also working on Connections, the same mindset applies: treat each constraint as a filter, not a hurdle—then let the category meaning do the final work.
