Wordle is a daily five-letter puzzle that blends vocabulary, deduction, and a bit of luck. For the 1 December 2025 challenge, players faced a word that feels familiar in meaning but can be surprisingly tricky to land on, especially if you don’t often use it in everyday conversation. If today's grid left you stumped, this guide walks you through smart hints first, and then reveals the full answer.

Top Hints for Today’s Wordle: 1 December 2025

  • The answer contains two vowels.
  • There are no repeated letters in the word.
  • It’s primarily used as a verb in everyday contexts.
  • The word often appears in science, environment, and chemistry discussions.
  • It describes what happens when liquid slowly drains through a material, carrying other substances with it.
  • The word starts with a consonant and ends with another consonant.
  • Think of a process where nutrients, chemicals, or minerals are gradually washed out of soil or another substance.

If you want to keep playing without spoilers, try using these hints to refine your guesses before scrolling further.

Answer for Today’s Wordle: 1 December 2025

Today’s puzzle leaned on a slightly technical, less conversational term, which can easily trip up players who were expecting something more common or concrete. Words related to weather or feelings have appeared recently, so many players likely chased the wrong theme before locking in the right pattern.

The answer?

LEACH

This is a verb that means to drain away or remove soluble components from something, usually by the action of a liquid passing through it—such as nutrients being leached from soil by rainwater.

Tricks for Puzzles Like This

When Wordle uses words that are a bit more technical or less conversational, a structured approach helps a lot:

  • Lock in your vowels early.
    Start with words that feature multiple different vowels (like ADIEU, AUDIO, or LEARN) to quickly map out which ones are in play.
  • Test common consonant pairs.
    Once you know a couple of letters, try common consonant structures like CH, SH, CL, or TR to see what “clicks” with the feedback you have.
  • Don’t forget less flashy letters.
    Letters like L, C, and H show up in a lot of solutions but don’t always appear in people’s default starter words. Bring them in by guess three or four.
  • Think beyond everyday speech.
    If obvious, conversational words aren’t fitting the pattern, consider terms from science, nature, or technical usage—today’s answer is a perfect example.
  • Use elimination, not just intuition.
    When you’re down to two or three plausible options, pick a guess that tests multiple uncertain letters at once, even if it’s not one of your candidate answers. This can save you from a last-line scramble.

Why Today’s Wordle Felt Draining

With LEACH, much of the difficulty came from its register and usage, not from letter complexity. All the letters are relatively common and there are no doubles, which often makes a word easier. But today still managed to feel tricky for a few reasons:

  • Semantic curveball: Many players default to everyday, conversational words. Because leach is more common in scientific or environmental contexts, it might not have been top of mind.
  • Pattern ambiguity: A structure like _EACH can tempt guesses such as REACH, BEACH, or even PEACH before landing on the correct option, especially if you learned the starting letter late.
  • Late consonant discovery: If you locked in E, A, and C but waited too long to test L or H, you might have burned extra guesses circling around the right configuration.

When everything finally clicked, LEACH neatly tied together the idea of something slowly draining away and being carried off—mirroring the way your remaining guesses might have felt like they were slipping through your fingers. Did you spot it early, or did this one slowly drain your chances?

Why Today's Wordle was sticky

How many guesses did you need for LEACH today? Did the scientific tone of the word throw you off, or did the pattern fall into place once you saw _EACH on your board? Share your starting word, path, and streak stories in the discussion!