This is an archive entry for Wordle #1651, which was published on Friday, December 26, 2025. The puzzle is no longer current, so the hints below are for readers checking a past game or working through that date’s word. The answer is at the bottom, after three clues that get progressively more direct.
Clue 1: the letter pattern
The answer has five letters and only one vowel, and that vowel appears twice. If you have been guessing words with two different vowels, this points you toward a repeated-letter pattern instead.
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Clue 2: a line from a comedy classic
In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a character asks about the airspeed of an unladen swallow. The word for that quantity, how fast something moves, is the answer.
Clue 3: a 1994 action film
The answer is also the title of the 1994 action film starring Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves, best remembered for its bus sequences.
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Spoiler: the answer
The answer for Wordle #1651 on Friday, December 26, 2025 was SPEED.
The date and puzzle number are consistent across the archives that list this game. WordFinder’s dated hint page for #1651 gives SPEED as the solution, TechRadar’s December 2025 table of past answers lists the same date, number, and word, and NYT Game Solver’s daily archive shows the same entry for that Friday.
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Why the date matters
Wordle publishes one puzzle per day, and each has a sequential number. Numbers and answers are recorded in archives such as those above, so if you are working from a saved screenshot or an old link, check the puzzle number against the date before using any hint.
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- Date: Friday, December 26, 2025
- Answer: SPEED (five letters, repeated E)
Hint depth matters if you are playing a past puzzle yourself. Clue 1 narrows the search without naming the word. Clue 2 points to the meaning. Clue 3 gives the word away almost completely, so stop there if you want to solve it unaided.
For what it is worth, the title’s word “today” refers to the day the puzzle ran. This page is an archived lookup, not a live daily hint.
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