Today’s Wordle is one of those that feels oddly specific: it’s not a common American everyday word, but it pops up in British writing when you need a term for a vehicle. With a repeated letter, a couple of vowel clues, and a clear starting “L,” this one is very solvable once you lock onto the shape of the answer.
Hints
If you want the answer, scroll past the clues below. If you don’t, use these step-by-step nudges.
1) Repeats: The solution contains one repeated letter, so once you identify a correct letter, try to test whether it appears twice.
2) Vowels: The word has one vowel plus one letter that’s sometimes treated like a vowel (in other words, you’ll likely see a mix like a “true” vowel and another letter that often fills a vowel role).
3) First letter: It begins with L.
4) Last letter: It ends with Y.
5) Meaning: The answer is a British term for a truck.
Putting all that together—an L…Y word with a repeated letter and a British vehicle meaning—should start narrowing your guesses fast. If you’re also juggling other word games as you go, today’s NYT Connections can scratch a similar “pattern” itch as you test letters and relationships.
Answers
Today’s Wordle answer: LORRY
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (July 21, No. 1858): SHILL
If you got close but didn’t land it, a common snag is overthinking the “sometimes vowel” letter—on this one, your best bet is to trust the boundary letters (L and Y) and let the repeated-letter clue do the heavy lifting. Once you have the l…y skeleton and confirm a letter repeats, the British “truck” term becomes an immediate target.
And if you’re working across multiple puzzles at once, remember that Wordle tends to reward early elimination: even one “mostly right” guess can reduce the search space more than you’d expect.
