Treat yourself to a little help with today's Wordle. Keep it short and sweet with our hints and clues for the September 12 (1546) puzzle, designed to give you a push in the right direction without ruining your fun. We've even separated them out too, making it easy for you to find exactly what you need. And if that's not working out for you (some days Wordle's just like that, right?), today's answer is only a click away.
Stuck on today's Wordle? Here's a clue that pertains to the meaning of the word.
If you're still just as stuck after our clue, scroll down for further hints.
Our Wordle hints will start vague so as to just give you a bit of a nudge in the right direction at first.
As you scroll down, they'll offer more and more help towards figuring out today's word without fully giving it away.
The heck was that all about? Green letters? What green letters?
A freshly-hammered thumb. An excited heart. Any sort of pulsing or beating sensation is probably a throb.
Past Wordle answers can give you some excellent ideas for fun starting words that keep your daily puzzle-solving fresh. They are also a good way to eliminate guesses for today's Wordle, as the answer is unlikely to be repeated.
Here are the last 10 Wordle answers:
Wordle's a daily guessing game, where the goal is to correctly uncover today's five letter word in six goes or less. An incorrect letter shows up as a grey box. A correct letter in the wrong space turns up yellow. And the correct letter in the right place shows up as green. There's no time limit to worry about, and don't forget that some letters might be used more than once.
Generally you want to pick something with a good mix of common consonants and vowels in it as your Wordle opener, as this is most likely to return some early green and yellow letters. Words like SLATE, CHIME, and REACT all work, but feel free to find your own favourite.
Wordle is not getting harder!
There will always be the occasional day where the answer is the name of a body part, has a sneaky double vowel, or a word obscure enough to send everyone rushing off to a dictionary. But the daily answers, edited by Tracy Bennett, are still a good mix of common terms and tougher challenges.
Remember that if you're craving more of a challenge, you can enable Hard Mode under the ⚙️ options menu. This option doesn't make the words themselves harder, but it requires that "any revealed hints must be used in subsequent guesses."
Wordle is the creation of Josh Wardle, and began life as a small personal project before its public release in 2021. From there it's gone on to become a global phenomenon, attracting a dedicated daily audience, billions of plays, a whole host of competitors, and even a seven-figure sale to the New York Times where it's become a mainstay of daily games alongside the crosswords and Connections.