How Many Wordle Answers Have Been Used?

The archive contains 1,840 distinct answers across 1,858 dated puzzles. There have been 18 repeats, and 518 words on this site's 2,358-word possible-answer list have not appeared in the archive.

The useful conclusion is simple: past answers can return, while an unused word is not a promise about what Wordle will choose next.

How we tested this

We compared completed puzzles from 19 June 2021 to 20 July 2026 with the current possible-answer list used by this site's solver. That list is a practical solving aid, not an official schedule of future New York Times answers, and its totals can change when the source lists are updated.

The archive so far

The archive runs from 19 June 2021 to 20 July 2026. Its 1,858 puzzle entries reduce to 1,840 distinct words because 18 answers have appeared more than once.

Those repeats settle one practical question: a previous appearance does not permanently disqualify a word. They do not tell us how the New York Times chooses answers or prove that every old answer can return.

Here are the current totals, from puzzles played to words still absent from the archive.

What the unused count means

The possible-answer list contains 518 words absent from the archive, so the site's solver still considers plenty of unseen words. It does not tell us when, or whether, Wordle's editors will choose any one of them.

The Opener Lab and word finder use the same possible-answer list for their calculations and labels.