Highest estimated difficulty
GUNKY appears less than once per million words in the corpus-based frequency data, so familiarity alone sets a Brutal floor. Its letters add points too, but corpus frequency sets the minimum rating.
Past Answers
Wordle Answers: March 2026
Browse all 31 completed answers from March 2026, with a page for each puzzle's definition, difficulty and solver replay.
March 2026 in review
March 2026 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 6, 2026 and the lowest on Mar 2, 2026; 11 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
Lowest estimated difficulty
SLIME 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, 2026 to 5 on Mar 6, 2026. 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 1.6 points on the estimated word-difficulty scale against 1.5 across the trailing six months, and a gap of 0.1 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
11 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.
4 days reused an earlier answer. Repeats are ordinary in the archive, so do not discard a guess only because it has already been a solution.
Double-letter days: Mar 3 (#1,718) doubled N; Mar 4 (#1,719) doubled T; Mar 5 (#1,720) doubled E; Mar 8 (#1,723) doubled B; Mar 11 (#1,726) doubled D; Mar 12 (#1,727) doubled L; Mar 13 (#1,728) doubled E; Mar 16 (#1,731) doubled A; Mar 20 (#1,735) doubled S; Mar 24 (#1,739) doubled O; Mar 28 (#1,743) doubled O.
Uncommon-letter days: Mar 1 (#1,716) used K; Mar 6 (#1,721) used K; Mar 7 (#1,722) used V; Mar 14 (#1,729) used K; Mar 21 (#1,736) used K; Mar 25 (#1,740) used W; Mar 27 (#1,742) used V; Mar 31 (#1,746) used W.
Repeat days: Mar 3 (#1,718) reused an answer first played in August 2021; Mar 15 (#1,730) reused an answer first played in July 2021; Mar 27 (#1,742) reused an answer first played in August 2021; Mar 30 (#1,745) reused an answer first played in October 2021.
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.
| Date | Day | Puzzle | Answer | Word difficulty |
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| Mar 31, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,746 → | SWAMP | Tricky |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Monday | #1,745 → | COMET Used 2 times | Easy |
| Mar 29, 2026 | Sunday | #1,744 → | CHUMP | Tricky |
| Mar 28, 2026 | Saturday | #1,743 → | AFOOT | Tricky |
| Mar 27, 2026 | Friday | #1,742 → | IVORY Used 2 times | Moderate |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Thursday | #1,741 → | BEFIT | Hard |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,740 → | WISER | Moderate |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,739 → | BROOD | Moderate |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Monday | #1,738 → | SERIF | Tricky |
| Mar 22, 2026 | Sunday | #1,737 → | BASIL | Easy |
| Mar 21, 2026 | Saturday | #1,736 → | SLICK | Tricky |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Friday | #1,735 → | OASIS | Moderate |
| Mar 19, 2026 | Thursday | #1,734 → | REHAB | Easy |
| Mar 18, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,733 → | AMPLY | Tricky |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,732 → | CLASP | Moderate |
| Mar 16, 2026 | Monday | #1,731 → | DRAMA | Moderate |
| Mar 15, 2026 | Sunday | #1,730 → | GRADE Used 2 times | Easy |
| Mar 14, 2026 | Saturday | #1,729 → | ANKLE | Moderate |
| Mar 13, 2026 | Friday | #1,728 → | EATEN | Moderate |
| Mar 12, 2026 | Thursday | #1,727 → | SMELL | Tricky |
| Mar 11, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,726 → | TEDDY | Tricky |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,725 → | SHOAL | Tricky |
| Mar 9, 2026 | Monday | #1,724 → | HASTY | Moderate |
| Mar 8, 2026 | Sunday | #1,723 → | LOBBY | Tricky |
| Mar 7, 2026 | Saturday | #1,722 → | VOGUE | Moderate |
| Mar 6, 2026 | Friday | #1,721 → | GUNKY | Brutal |
| Mar 5, 2026 | Thursday | #1,720 → | SHEEP | Moderate |
| Mar 4, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,719 → | THEFT | Tricky |
| Mar 3, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,718 → | LINEN Used 2 times | Moderate |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Monday | #1,717 → | SLIME | Easy |
| Mar 1, 2026 | Sunday | #1,716 → | FLUKE | Moderate |
On this day in Wordle
Past answers published on September 8 in earlier years. Every puzzle listed here is complete, so this section does not spoil a live game.
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1 year ago
Corpus data records CHIRP less than once per million words of English, so familiar-looking letters can still hide an uncommon answer.
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2 years ago
There is just one vowel to find, which makes vowel-heavy openers less useful. The consonants do most of the narrowing.
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3 years ago
A trap-family answer: 4 answers fit the pattern _OUSE, so four green tiles can still leave several candidates.
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
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 5
- Moderate 13
- Tricky 11
- Hard 1
- Brutal 1