March 2025 in review

March 2025 is complete, with 31 puzzles and every date recorded. On the site's word-property scale it was an ordinary month. The highest estimated difficulty occurred on Mar 22, 2025 and the lowest on Mar 2, 2025; 10 answers doubled a letter and 8 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.

The hardest and easiest answers

Highest estimated difficulty

AMBLE 3.5 pts · Mar 22, 2025 · #1,372

AMBLE appears less than once per million words in the corpus-based frequency data, so familiarity alone sets a Hard floor. Its five distinct letters include at least two vowels and none of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.

Lowest estimated difficulty

DEITY 0 pts · Mar 2, 2025 · #1,352

DEITY has five distinct letters, 2 vowels and no uncommon letters. Common first guesses therefore test many of its letters.

The spread ran from 0 points on Mar 2, 2025 to 3.5 on Mar 22, 2025. Both numbers describe single words, not a sequence. A hard day and an easy one can occur in the same week, so the trend line below compares whole months rather than individual days.

The difficulty trend

An ordinary month. March's 31 answers averaged 1.3 points on the estimated word-difficulty scale against 1.5 across the trailing six months, and a gap of 0.2 points sits inside the normal month-to-month spread of about ±0.3. At roughly thirty answers a month that is sampling noise, not a change in how answers were chosen. The difference does not support changing openers or strategy. The scale combines general-English corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and missing vowels. It measures word properties, not player results.

Letters and patterns

10 of 31 answers doubled a letter, in line with the long-run archive rate of about 31%. This matches the usual rate. Test a repeat when the board stalls.

8 of 31 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W, in line with the long-run archive rate of about 28%. Standard openers test these letters less often, so the difficulty scale adds a penalty for each one.

No day reused an earlier answer: every puzzle this month was a first appearance in the site's recorded history. Repeats do happen, so a word having been a solution before is still no reason to drop it from your guesses.

Double-letter days: Mar 4 (#1,354) doubled C; Mar 7 (#1,357) doubled O; Mar 9 (#1,359) doubled E; Mar 14 (#1,364) doubled E; Mar 15 (#1,365) doubled L; Mar 17 (#1,367) doubled S; Mar 27 (#1,377) doubled E; Mar 28 (#1,378) doubled E; Mar 29 (#1,379) doubled R; Mar 31 (#1,381) doubled O.

Uncommon-letter days: Mar 1 (#1,351) used V; Mar 4 (#1,354) used K; Mar 8 (#1,358) used V; Mar 11 (#1,361) used K; Mar 19 (#1,369) used K; Mar 26 (#1,376) used W; Mar 28 (#1,378) used V; Mar 30 (#1,380) used Q.

How players fared

No day from this month has reached the Observatory's minimum public sample of 10 opt-in games, so no crowd numbers appear. The gate is deliberate: below it, a handful of results could stand in for a crowd and misrepresent a day.

Answer words are shown only for completed puzzles. Open a puzzle for its definition, difficulty and solver replay.

DateDayPuzzleAnswerWord difficulty
Mar 31, 2025 Monday #1,381 → BOOTY Moderate
Mar 30, 2025 Sunday #1,380 → QUOTA Moderate
Mar 29, 2025 Saturday #1,379 → SORRY Tricky
Mar 28, 2025 Friday #1,378 → VERSE Tricky
Mar 27, 2025 Thursday #1,377 → SHEET Moderate
Mar 26, 2025 Wednesday #1,376 → ELBOW Moderate
Mar 25, 2025 Tuesday #1,375 → SHELF Moderate
Mar 24, 2025 Monday #1,374 → ANGLE Easy
Mar 23, 2025 Sunday #1,373 → DOPEY Tricky
Mar 22, 2025 Saturday #1,372 → AMBLE Hard
Mar 21, 2025 Friday #1,371 → NUDGE Easy
Mar 20, 2025 Thursday #1,370 → BASTE Hard
Mar 19, 2025 Wednesday #1,369 → SPARK Tricky
Mar 18, 2025 Tuesday #1,368 → TIMER Easy
Mar 17, 2025 Monday #1,367 → LASSO Tricky
Mar 16, 2025 Sunday #1,366 → STAMP Moderate
Mar 15, 2025 Saturday #1,365 → LADLE Tricky
Mar 14, 2025 Friday #1,364 → PIECE Moderate
Mar 13, 2025 Thursday #1,363 → CHASE Easy
Mar 12, 2025 Wednesday #1,362 → MANGO Easy
Mar 11, 2025 Tuesday #1,361 → TRACK Tricky
Mar 10, 2025 Monday #1,360 → SPITE Easy
Mar 9, 2025 Sunday #1,359 → GREED Moderate
Mar 8, 2025 Saturday #1,358 → NAVEL Tricky
Mar 7, 2025 Friday #1,357 → TROOP Moderate
Mar 6, 2025 Thursday #1,356 → ALERT Easy
Mar 5, 2025 Wednesday #1,355 → SCRUM Moderate
Mar 4, 2025 Tuesday #1,354 → CHECK Hard
Mar 3, 2025 Monday #1,353 → SPEAR Easy
Mar 2, 2025 Sunday #1,352 → DEITY Easy
Mar 1, 2025 Saturday #1,351 → HOVER Moderate

On this day in Wordle

Past answers published on September 7 in earlier years. Every puzzle listed here is complete, so this section does not spoil a live game.

  1. 1 year ago
    Easy

    Nothing unusual appears in the letters: all five are distinct and familiar. Ordinary letter coverage works well on words like this.

    Puzzle #1,541 → Word page →

  2. 2 years ago
    Moderate

    Nothing unusual appears in the letters: all five are distinct and familiar. Ordinary letter coverage works well on words like this.

    Puzzle #1,176 → Word page →

  3. 3 years ago
    Hard

    The doubled L raises the difficulty. Once a letter shows up yellow or green, few players try it a second time unprompted.

    Puzzle #810 → Word page →

The Easy-to-Brutal badge combines general-English corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and vowel count. It estimates word difficulty, not player results. Dates come from the site's recorded answer history.

Archive totals

31 Answers
S Most common start (8)
E Most common end (9)
AMBLE Highest estimated difficulty

Estimated word difficulty combines wordfreq corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and vowel count. It measures word properties, not player results. Compare solver difficulty →

  • Easy 9
  • Moderate 11
  • Tricky 8
  • Hard 3

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