Highest estimated difficulty
THRUM appears less than once per million words in the corpus-based frequency data, so familiarity alone sets a Brutal floor. Its letters add points too, but corpus frequency sets the minimum rating.
Past Answers
Wordle Answers: June 2025
Browse all 30 completed answers from June 2025, with a page for each puzzle's definition, difficulty and solver replay.
June 2025 in review
June 2025 is complete, with 30 puzzles and every date recorded. On the site's word-property scale it was an ordinary month. The highest estimated difficulty occurred on Jun 22, 2025 and the lowest on Jun 1, 2025; 10 answers doubled a letter and 5 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.
The hardest and easiest answers
Lowest estimated difficulty
ROUGH has five distinct letters, 2 vowels and no uncommon letters. Common first guesses therefore test many of its letters.
The spread ran from 0 points on Jun 1, 2025 to 5 on Jun 22, 2025. Both numbers describe single words, not a sequence. A hard day and an easy one can occur in the same week, so the trend line below compares whole months rather than individual days.
The difficulty trend
An ordinary month. June's 30 answers averaged 1.8 points on the estimated word-difficulty scale against 1.5 across the trailing six months, and a gap of 0.3 points sits inside the normal month-to-month spread of about ±0.3. At roughly thirty answers a month that is sampling noise, not a change in how answers were chosen. The difference does not support changing openers or strategy. The scale combines general-English corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and missing vowels. It measures word properties, not player results.
Letters and patterns
10 of 30 answers doubled a letter, in line with the long-run archive rate of about 31%. This matches the usual rate. Test a repeat when the board stalls.
5 of 30 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W, below the long-run archive rate of about 28%. Standard openers test these letters less often, so the difficulty scale adds a penalty for each one.
No day reused an earlier answer: every puzzle this month was a first appearance in the site's recorded history. Repeats do happen, so a word having been a solution before is still no reason to drop it from your guesses.
Double-letter days: Jun 2 (#1,444) doubled E; Jun 4 (#1,446) doubled E; Jun 7 (#1,449) doubled E; Jun 8 (#1,450) doubled E; Jun 10 (#1,452) doubled F; Jun 16 (#1,458) doubled T; Jun 23 (#1,465) doubled D; Jun 24 (#1,466) doubled E; Jun 26 (#1,468) doubled F; Jun 29 (#1,471) doubled T.
Uncommon-letter days: Jun 12 (#1,454) used V and X; Jun 15 (#1,457) used Q; Jun 17 (#1,459) used K; Jun 29 (#1,471) used W; Jun 30 (#1,472) used K.
How players fared
No day from this month has reached the Observatory's minimum public sample of 10 opt-in games, so no crowd numbers appear. The gate is deliberate: below it, a handful of results could stand in for a crowd and misrepresent a day.
Answer words are shown only for completed puzzles. Open a puzzle for its definition, difficulty and solver replay.
| Date | Day | Puzzle | Answer | Word difficulty |
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| Jun 30, 2025 | Monday | #1,472 → | BLINK | Tricky |
| Jun 29, 2025 | Sunday | #1,471 → | WITTY | Hard |
| Jun 28, 2025 | Saturday | #1,470 → | STUMP | Moderate |
| Jun 27, 2025 | Friday | #1,469 → | PLAIN | Easy |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Thursday | #1,468 → | OFFER | Moderate |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Wednesday | #1,467 → | COMFY | Moderate |
| Jun 24, 2025 | Tuesday | #1,466 → | ELITE | Moderate |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Monday | #1,465 → | ODDLY | Tricky |
| Jun 22, 2025 | Sunday | #1,464 → | THRUM | Brutal |
| Jun 21, 2025 | Saturday | #1,463 → | GLADE | Tricky |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Friday | #1,462 → | TAUPE | Tricky |
| Jun 19, 2025 | Thursday | #1,461 → | CURIO | Hard |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Wednesday | #1,460 → | MUNCH | Moderate |
| Jun 17, 2025 | Tuesday | #1,459 → | PRANK | Tricky |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Monday | #1,458 → | PETTY | Tricky |
| Jun 15, 2025 | Sunday | #1,457 → | QUAIL | Moderate |
| Jun 14, 2025 | Saturday | #1,456 → | GHOST | Moderate |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Friday | #1,455 → | BILGE | Tricky |
| Jun 12, 2025 | Thursday | #1,454 → | VIXEN | Tricky |
| Jun 11, 2025 | Wednesday | #1,453 → | PLAID | Easy |
| Jun 10, 2025 | Tuesday | #1,452 → | TAFFY | Tricky |
| Jun 9, 2025 | Monday | #1,451 → | BOARD | Easy |
| Jun 8, 2025 | Sunday | #1,450 → | LEASE | Moderate |
| Jun 7, 2025 | Saturday | #1,449 → | REUSE | Moderate |
| Jun 6, 2025 | Friday | #1,448 → | EDIFY | Brutal |
| Jun 5, 2025 | Thursday | #1,447 → | DATUM | Tricky |
| Jun 4, 2025 | Wednesday | #1,446 → | CEASE | Moderate |
| Jun 3, 2025 | Tuesday | #1,445 → | ADMIN | Easy |
| Jun 2, 2025 | Monday | #1,444 → | PREEN | Hard |
| Jun 1, 2025 | Sunday | #1,443 → | ROUGH | Easy |
On this day in Wordle
Past answers published on September 7 in earlier years. Every puzzle listed here is complete, so this section does not spoil a live game.
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1 year ago
Nothing unusual appears in the letters: all five are distinct and familiar. Ordinary letter coverage works well on words like this.
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2 years ago
Nothing unusual appears in the letters: all five are distinct and familiar. Ordinary letter coverage works well on words like this.
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3 years ago
The doubled L raises the difficulty. Once a letter shows up yellow or green, few players try it a second time unprompted.
The Easy-to-Brutal badge combines general-English corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and vowel count. It estimates word difficulty, not player results. Dates come from the site's recorded answer history.
Archive totals
Estimated word difficulty combines wordfreq corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and vowel count. It measures word properties, not player results. Compare solver difficulty →
- Easy 5
- Moderate 10
- Tricky 10
- Hard 3
- Brutal 2