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It's time for your guide to today's Wordle answer, featuring my commentary on the latest puzzle, plus a selection of hints designed to help you keep your streak going.
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Want more word-based fun? TechRadar's Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that game, and you can also take a look at our NYT Strands today and NYT Connections today pages for our verdict on two of the New York Times' other brainteasers.
SPOILER WARNING: Today's Wordle answer and hints are below, so don't read on if you don't want to see them.
Marc is TechRadar’s Global Editor in Chief and has been obsessed with Wordle for more than four years. He's authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar and its sister site Tom's Guide, including a detailed analysis of the most common letters in Wordle in every position and a guide to the best Wordle start words. He's also played every Wordle ever and only lost once and yes, he takes it all too seriously.
Wordle hints (game #1921) - clue #1 - Vowels
How many vowels does today's Wordle have?
• Wordle today has vowels in two places*.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
Wordle hints (game #1921) - clue #2 - first letter
What letter does today's Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today's Wordle answer is S.
S is the most common starting letter in the game, featuring in 365 of Wordle's 2,309 answers. In fact, it's almost twice as likely to begin an answer as the next most common starting letter, C.
Wordle hints (game #1921) - clue #3 - repeated letters
Does today's Wordle have any repeated letters?
• There are no repeated letters in today's Wordle.
Repeated letters are quite common in the game, with 748 of the 2,309 Wordle answers containing one. However, it's still more likely that a Wordle doesn't have one.
Wordle hints (game #1921) - clue #4 - ending letter
What letter does today's Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today's Wordle is E.
E is the most common letter to end a Wordle answer by far. That's one of the reasons why many of the best start words, including SLATE, CRANE, CRATE and STARE, all end with one.
Wordle hints (game #1921) - clue #5 - last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here's an extra one for game #1921.
- Today's Wordle answer is to stir up.
If you just want to know today's Wordle answer now, simply scroll down – but I'd always recommend trying to solve it on your own first. We've got lots of Wordle tips and tricks to help you, including a guide to the best Wordle start words.
If you don't want to know today's answer then DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER BECAUSE IT IS PRINTED BELOW. So don't say you weren't warned!
Today's Wordle answer (game #1921)
- NYT average score: 4.0
- My score: 4
- WordleBot's score: 3
- My skill score: 95
- My luck score: 51
- My start word performance: SANER (44 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (4)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Today's Wordle answer (game #1921) is… STOKE.
A mere two days ago we had SHONE, a word with an S-O-E format, and I spent a good part of my column that day detailing how common the S---E format is. Now, as if to perfectly illustrate my point, here's the very similar STOKE.
I'm not exactly delighted to see it, because I could only score a 4 here, proving that I learned nothing from my experience with SHONE (also a 4). Still, that matches the overall average for today's game, so it could be worse.
It could also have been much better, with a little more luck. SANER had cut my shortlist to 44, and CLOTH reduced those to a pair of STOKE and STOVE. There's very little to choose between those two — the K in the former is slightly more common than the V in the latter, but only a tiny bit, and you could certainly argue that STOVE is the more common word. Besides, none of that makes the slightest difference to probability when you're down to 50/50 — from my point of view there was an equal chance of me picking the correct one.
Well, readers, I did not do that. After an excellent couple of weeks I've now gone 4-5-4, so here's hoping I can find my way to a 3 (or better!) tomorrow.
Yesterday's Wordle hints (game #1920)
In a different time zone where it's still Monday? Don't worry — I can give you some clues for Wordle #1920, too.
- Wordle yesterday had vowels in two places*
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
- The first letter in yesterday's Wordle answer was P.
P is a very common first letter among Wordle answers. It's the fifth most common in the alphabet and begins 141 solutions in total.
- There were no repeated letters in yesterday's Wordle.
Repeated letters are quite common in the game, with 748 of the 2,309 Wordle answers containing one. However, it's still more likely that a Wordle doesn't have one.
- The last letter in yesterday's Wordle was R.
R is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – it's actually the 4th most common there, behind E, Y and T.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here's an extra one for game #1920.
- Yesterday's Wordle answer is a means of communication.
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1920)
- NYT average score: 4.4
- My score: 5
- WordleBot's score: 4
- My skill score: 86
- My luck score: 43
- My start word performance: SANER (44 remaining answers)
- WordleBot's start word performance: SLATE (140)
- Tomorrow's start word: SANER
Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1920) was… PAGER.
Do I have the power to change Wordle's difficulty? Maybe. The other day I wrote a column about how we were in a very easy period for Wordle right now, and almost immediately it changed, with the very difficult WAKEN (average score: 4.5) and now the almost equally tough PAGER, which is currently sitting at 4.4.
Okay, so there was a straightforward game in-between those two (Sunday's SHONE), but it's several weeks since we had two games out of three above the 4.0 threshold even, let alone two of 4.4 or higher.
PAGER has the obvious complication of being an ER word, made harder still by the presence of the relatively uncommon G in the middle. G is not exactly obscure, but the last ER word we had, ASTER, had a T in the middle of the word — and was subsequently nowhere near as tricky to complete.
PAGER is of course a very similar word to WAGER, which appeared at the start of September and which had a 4.2 average. It's also very nearly EAGER, which was the answer in May last year, and LAGER, which appeared in October 2024. The fact that I didn't recall any of those as having definitely appeared before, even WAGER, may well have played a part in my poor score of 5.
Pretty much everything that could have gone wrong here did. Well, apart from my first guess, which gave me three green letters and reduced the word pool to 44. My second, CLEFT, was a bit of a disaster though, giving me nothing more and still leaving 18.
VERGE, meanwhile, was chosen in desperation as I looked at the board and realized that I really needed to include an R in the middle still, in case it was a word like RARER or the dreaded PARER, and that I ought to include two Es as well, in case it was EAGER.
As it happened, the R stayed yellow and the prospect of a repeated E was also ruled out. And better still, VERGE did give me a yellow G that finally narrowed down my options properly, leaving six.
This was, however, still too many for comfort given I was on my fourth guess. I decided I'd better play yet another narrowing-down word to help me choose between PAGER, WAGER, GAMER, GAYER and GAZER (the 'Bot also thought RAGER was an option, but I'm not so sure) and WIMPY did what it needed to, giving me the yellow P that confirmed PAGER as the only solution. Not my finest hour.
Wordle answers: The past 50
I've been playing Wordle every day for more than four years now and have tracked all of the previous answers so I can help you improve your game. Here are the last 50 solutions starting with yesterday's answer, or check out my past Wordle answers page for the full list.
- Wordle #1920, Monday 21 September: PAGER
- Wordle #1919, Sunday 20 September: SHONE
- Wordle #1918, Saturday 19 September: WAKEN
- Wordle #1917, Friday 18 September: SNOWY
- Wordle #1916, Thursday 17 September: THETA
- Wordle #1915, Wednesday 16 September: WISPY
- Wordle #1914, Tuesday 15 September: DEALT
- Wordle #1913, Monday 14 September: RINSE
- Wordle #1912, Sunday 13 September: FOCUS
- Wordle #1911, Saturday 12 September: NIFTY
- Wordle #1910, Friday 11 September: ASTER
- Wordle #1909, Thursday 10 September: DRYLY
- Wordle #1908, Wednesday 9 September: BURST
- Wordle #1907, Tuesday 8 September: LIVEN
- Wordle #1906, Monday 7 September: BLIND
- Wordle #1905, Sunday 6 September: BEIGE
- Wordle #1904, Saturday 5 September: SOUPY
- Wordle #1903, Friday 4 September: WAGER
- Wordle #1902, Thursday 3 September: JOIST
- Wordle #1901, Wednesday 2 September: RULER
- Wordle #1900, Tuesday 1 September: REMIX
- Wordle #1899, Monday 31 August: MOUND
- Wordle #1898, Sunday 30 August: INTEL
- Wordle #1897, Saturday 29 August: BLOOD
- Wordle #1896, Friday 28 August: TWEEN
- Wordle #1895, Thursday 27 August: UNCUT
- Wordle #1894, Wednesday 26 August: CAPON
- Wordle #1893, Tuesday 25 August: CLICK
- Wordle #1892, Monday 24 August: RUNNY
- Wordle #1891, Sunday 23 August: OLDEN
- Wordle #1890, Saturday 22 August: PRAWN
- Wordle #1889, Friday 21 August: TRACE
- Wordle #1888, Thursday 20 August: MURKY
- Wordle #1887, Wednesday 19 August: GRILL
- Wordle #1886, Tuesday 18 August: STRIP
- Wordle #1885, Monday 17 August: TRIBE
- Wordle #1884, Sunday 16 August: ASPIC
- Wordle #1883, Saturday 15 August: LOOSE
- Wordle #1882, Friday 14 August: GEODE
- Wordle #1881, Thursday 13 August: CRASH
- Wordle #1880, Wednesday 12 August: WIMPY
- Wordle #1879, Tuesday 11 August: FENCE
- Wordle #1878, Monday 10 August: SNIPE
- Wordle #1877, Sunday 9 August: CLUNK
- Wordle #1876, Saturday 8 August: PRIVY
- Wordle #1875, Friday 7 August: FEIGN
- Wordle #1874, Thursday 6 August: GRIPE
- Wordle #1873, Wednesday 5 August: POSIT
- Wordle #1872, Tuesday 4 August: MOTIF
- Wordle #1871, Monday 3 August: REPLY
What is Wordle?
If you're on this page then you almost certainly know what Wordle is already, and indeed have probably been playing it for a while. And even if you've not been playing it, you must surely have heard of it by now, because it's the viral word game phenomenon that took the world by storm in 2022 and is still going strong in 2026.
We've got a full guide to the game in our What is Wordle page, but if you just want a refresher then here are the basics.
What is Wordle?
Wordle challenges you to guess a new five-letter word each day. You get six guesses, with each one revealing a little more information. If one of the letters in your guess is in the answer and in the right place, it turns green. If it's in the answer but in the wrong place, it turns yellow. And if it's not in the answer at all it turns gray. Simple, eh?
It's played online via the Wordle website or the New York Times' Games app (iOS / Android), and is entirely free.
Crucially, the answer is the same for everyone each day, meaning that you're competing against the rest of the world, rather than just against yourself or the game. The puzzle then resets each day at midnight in your local time, giving you a new challenge, and the chance to extend your streak.
What are the Wordle rules?
The rules of Wordle are pretty straightforward, but with a couple of curveballs thrown in for good measure.
1. Letters that are in the answer and in the right place turn green.
2. Letters that are in the answer but in the wrong place turn yellow.
3. Letters that are not in the answer turn gray.
4a. Answers are never plural.
4b. …unless they are. There have been a couple of plural words that don't end in an S or ES, including FUNGI (game #439), ATRIA (#1478) and TEETH (#1551). But S and ES plurals are definitely outlawed.
5. Letters can appear more than once. So if your guess includes two of one letter, they may both turn yellow, both turn green, or one could be yellow and the other green.
6. Each guess must be a valid word in Wordle's dictionary. You can't guess ABCDE, for instance.
7. You do not have to include correct letters in subsequent guesses unless you play on Hard mode.
8. You have six guesses to solve the Wordle.
9. You must complete the daily Wordle before midnight in your timezone.
10a. All answers are drawn from Wordle's list of 2,309 solutions…
10b. …unless they are not. That's because the NYT has added in some of its own words which weren't in that list of 2,309 solutions. More will undoubtedly come over the next few years.
10c. Plus, the NYT has now started repeating answers that have already appeared in Wordle. We have no idea how often it will do this, so you'll need to be on your guard.
11. Wordle will accept a wider pool of words as guesses – some 10,000 of them. For instance, you can guess a plural such as WORDS. It definitely won't be right (see point 4a above), but Wordle will accept it as a guess.
