Another day, another five-letter puzzle. If you’re still working through today’s grid in Wordle, the bite-sized hints below will keep your streak alive without giving away too much. Prefer the solution? It’s a few lines down.

For context, today’s puzzle landed in the “moderately challenging” range; test solvers averaged 4.3 guesses in the official Wordle Review.

Today’s quick hints (no spoilers)

  • Part of speech: noun
  • General clue: the lowest point
  • Starts with: N
  • Vowels: two (A, I)
  • Duplicate letters: none

Ready for the answer?

NADIR

Why that’s right

“Nadir” is the term for the point on the celestial sphere directly opposite the zenith and directly beneath the observer. Beyond astronomy, it’s used figuratively for the lowest point in a process or experience — exactly the sense hinted at above.

Strategy notes for tomorrow

  • Openers that cover multiple common vowels and consonants consistently shorten solves. The Wordlebot analysis recommends “trace” as a solid all-purpose start in its guidance.
  • Track letter distribution: when a puzzle has two distinct vowels and no repeats, lean on combos like AI, EA, OU and cycle through high-frequency consonants (N, S, T, R, L, D).
  • Hard Mode can help with discipline by forcing you to use revealed greens and yellows on subsequent guesses; toggle it in the game’s settings.
  • Post-game, you can benchmark your choices against the official analyzer in Wordle Bot.

Recent answers (for calibration)

THROB (Sep 12), CHAIR, POUTY, TRICK, CHIRP.

Play more

  • Want extra reps? The official Wordle Archive is available to NYT Games subscribers.
  • If you’re new, a quick refresher: green means correct letter and spot; yellow is the right letter in the wrong spot; gray is out. Six guesses, one daily word.

See you tomorrow with a new set of nudges — and a fresh five-letter target.