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This list has 9 Wordle guesses; 4 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 4 answers. Possible-answer status helps narrow a puzzle, but does not predict which word Wordle will choose.

Past Wordle answers: DRIFT (September 5, 2025); GRIFT (May 25, 2025); SHIFT (December 9, 2023).

Top-ranked splitter AARGH
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1
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DRIFT

Movement; that which moves or is moved.

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Past Wordle answer: September 5, 2025.

GRIFT

A confidence game or swindle.

“Hey, what's the grift? What are you trying to pull?”

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Past Wordle answer: May 25, 2025.

SHIFT

A movement to do something, a beginning.

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Past Wordle answer: December 9, 2023.

SWIFT

Fast; quick; rapid.

“swift action”

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Not found among the past answers in this archive.

CLIFT

A cliff.

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GLIFT

Alternative form of gliff.

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SNIFT

To snivel.

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WAIFT

Obsolete form of waif.

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WHIFT

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