Word Clues and Solution for Saturday's Wordle Game, August 16, 2025
In the daily Wordle game, played on the New York Times website, the answer for August 16, 2025, is "MATTE". This five-letter word starts with 'M', contains two vowels, has double letters, and means dull or flat, often relating to paint or photographs.
When you first open the Wordle game, you see an empty grid of letters. As you make your guesses, the colours green, yellow, and gray reveal clues about the word. Green means a correctly guessed letter in the correct position, yellow means the letter is somewhere in the word but not in the correct position, and gray means the letter is not in the solution word at all.
Yesterday's Wordle was harder, with the answer being "FELON". The hint for yesterday's Wordle was "convicted". Today's Wordle, however, has four common letters from the old typesetters' phrase ETAOIN SHRDLU.
Today's Wordle ends with the letter E and has one repeated letter. The New York Times's Wordle analysis bot suggests starting with words like CRANE, TRACE, SLANT, CRATE, or CARTE. An MIT analysis found that starting with words like SALET, REAST, TRACE, CRATE, or SLATE eliminates the most possibilities in the first round.
The fifth letter in today's Wordle is pretty common, and there is one repeated letter in the word. The hint for today's Wordle is "A type of paint, perhaps". If you're still stuck, you have six guesses before it's game over.
Good luck with today's Wordle, and happy guessing!
[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/matte [2] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/matte [3] https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/matte_1
- Posting the solution to today's Wordle on social media can be a fun form of entertainment, particularly when discussing the strategy used to guess the word.
- In case you're in need of help with Wordle today and have exhausted your guesses, you may find it helpful to consult online dictionaries like Merriam-Webster, Collins, or Oxford Languages for words related to paint or photographs, such as "matte."
- While books can provide engaging reading material, they may not offer the immediate satisfaction that comes from solving a daily Wordle challenge, where the answer is a five-letter word that ends with 'E' and has one repeated letter.
