Wordle has thrown players some curveballs recently, but today’s Wordle answer was fairly straightforward.

No repeated letters, two vowels, and the letters in the word are common ones.

In fact, two of them are the most-used and second-used letter in the entire alphabet.

But still, if you’re stumped today, read on.

Do you play other New York Times online word games?

Ourhome pagealways has the answers for Wordle, Connections and Strands.

Here’s theConnections answer for today, and here’s theanswer for Strands.

And do you solve theNYT Mini Crossword?

Here’s today’s answer for that.

Today’s Wordle hints

Before we show you today’sWordleanswer, we’ll give you some hints.

If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now.

Wordle hint No.

1: Repeats

Today’s Wordle answer has no repeated letters.

Wordle hint No.

2: Vowels

There are two vowels in today’s Wordle answer.

Wordle hint No.

3: First letter

Today’s Wordle answer starts with the letter C.

Wordle hint No.

4: Last letter

Today’s Wordle answer ends with the letter T.

Wordle hint No.

5: Meaning

Today’s Wordle answer usually refers to a young military trainee.

TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER

Today’s Wordle answer is CADET.

Yesterday’s Wordle answer

Yesterday’s Wordle answer, July 21, No.

1128, was SPECK.

Past Wordle answers

July 17, No.

1124: QUITE

July 18, No.

1125: NERDY

July 19, No.

1126: REFER

July 20, No.

I’ve even rounded upwhat I learned playing the hit online word puzzle for a full year.

Still need a starter word?

I tend to stick to starter words that have the most popular letters used in English words.

I like TRAIN as a starter, though I have a friend who uses TRAIL.

I’ve read that peopleuse the financial term ROATE, but I like to use words I actually know.

What is Wordle?

If you read this far, you know how to play.

The New York Timesbought the game from creator Josh Wardlefor seven figures in 2022.

It was convenient, too, that he has a name that plays off “word.”

Spoiler: That 1,000th word was ERUPT.

As in, “Dad will erupt if the Wordle is so tough he loses his streak.”