Today’s Wordle #1,469 Hints & Answer (June 2025)

Wordle is the ultra-popular, ultra-addictive word guessing game from the New York Times. Each puzzle gives players six guesses to work out a random five-letter word.Here arethe hints and answer for today’s Wordle #1,469 on July 23, 2025.

Today’s Wordle Hint

Before we give you the answer toWordleitself, we’ll run through some hints to help you. Hopefully, they prompt you to work out the mysterious word and you can just check it with the answer guide further down.

Only scroll beyond this point if you’re happy for us to give you the answer outright.

Wordle Logo and Grid PNG on green background

What’s the Wordle Today? (June 21, 2025: Game #1,469)

The Wordle answer for today, June 27, is…

A broad level expanse.

Wordle Tips, Tricks & Best Starting Words

Unsurprisingly, the best starting words in Wordle tend to have a decent mix of vowels. This’ll let you narrow down the word instantly, honing in on one or two vowels to orient future guesses around.

We love all of the following words aspotential starting wordsthanks to their mix of vowels and common consonants:

Wordle being played on a phone

The New York Times’Wordlebot 2.0recommends players use the word ‘SLATE’ or ‘LEAST’ as their starting word. The famousMassachusetts Institute of Technology (better known as MIT) recommends ‘SALET’, which you’ll notice uses the same letters as SLATE. Ultimately, the call is yours.

Wordle Archive: All Previous Answers Listed

The list below shows the words that have been the mystery answer in the past. They don’t repeat, so you can largely ignore the words below because they’ve already been featured as answers.

That’s everything to know about today’s Wordle answer, the best ways to play the New York Times’ game and the best starting words.Be sure to stick with us for everything Wordle, or check out other daily word games likeJumbleandWaffle!

Wordle with SALET as the first word

Ultimate Tower Defense

A group of anime characters in Echocalypse