Highest estimated difficulty
DRYLY contains none of A, E, I, O or U, the largest single letter penalty on the scale. A vowel-heavy opener can therefore spend several positions on absent letters.
Past Answers
Wordle Answers: September 2026
Browse all 30 completed answers from September 2026, with a page for each puzzle's definition, difficulty and solver replay.
September 2026 in review
September 2026 is complete, with 30 puzzles and every date recorded. On the site's word-property scale it was an ordinary month. The highest estimated difficulty occurred on Sep 10, 2026 and the lowest on Sep 13, 2026; 8 answers doubled a letter and 10 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.
The hardest and easiest answers
Lowest estimated difficulty
FOCUS 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 Sep 13, 2026 to 4.5 on Sep 10, 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. September's 30 answers averaged 1.8 points on the estimated word-difficulty scale against 1.8 across the trailing six months, and a gap of less than 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
8 of 30 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.
10 of 30 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.
2 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: Sep 2 (#1,901) doubled R; Sep 6 (#1,905) doubled E; Sep 10 (#1,909) doubled Y; Sep 17 (#1,916) doubled T; Sep 24 (#1,923) doubled S; Sep 26 (#1,925) doubled E; Sep 27 (#1,926) doubled O; Sep 30 (#1,929) doubled R.
Uncommon-letter days: Sep 1 (#1,900) used X; Sep 3 (#1,902) used J; Sep 4 (#1,903) used W; Sep 8 (#1,907) used V; Sep 16 (#1,915) used W; Sep 18 (#1,917) used W; Sep 19 (#1,918) used K and W; Sep 22 (#1,921) used K; Sep 28 (#1,927) used K; Sep 30 (#1,929) used V.
Repeat days: Sep 13 (#1,912) reused an answer first played in March 2022; Sep 23 (#1,922) reused an answer first played in August 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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| Sep 30, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,929 → | RIVER | Tricky |
| Sep 29, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,928 → | SCUBA | Easy |
| Sep 28, 2026 | Monday | #1,927 → | TRUNK | Tricky |
| Sep 27, 2026 | Sunday | #1,926 → | SLOOP | Tricky |
| Sep 26, 2026 | Saturday | #1,925 → | ELEGY | Tricky |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Friday | #1,924 → | COPSE | Hard |
| Sep 24, 2026 | Thursday | #1,923 → | MESSY | Tricky |
| Sep 23, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,922 → | FORTH Used 2 times | Moderate |
| Sep 22, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,921 → | STOKE | Moderate |
| Sep 21, 2026 | Monday | #1,920 → | PAGER | Tricky |
| Sep 20, 2026 | Sunday | #1,919 → | SHONE | Easy |
| Sep 19, 2026 | Saturday | #1,918 → | WAKEN | Hard |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Friday | #1,917 → | SNOWY | Tricky |
| Sep 17, 2026 | Thursday | #1,916 → | THETA | Moderate |
| Sep 16, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,915 → | WISPY | Hard |
| Sep 15, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,914 → | DEALT | Easy |
| Sep 14, 2026 | Monday | #1,913 → | RINSE | Easy |
| Sep 13, 2026 | Sunday | #1,912 → | FOCUS Used 2 times | Easy |
| Sep 12, 2026 | Saturday | #1,911 → | NIFTY | Moderate |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Friday | #1,910 → | ASTER | Tricky |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Thursday | #1,909 → | DRYLY | Hard |
| Sep 9, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,908 → | BURST | Moderate |
| Sep 8, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,907 → | LIVEN | Tricky |
| Sep 7, 2026 | Monday | #1,906 → | BLIND | Moderate |
| Sep 6, 2026 | Sunday | #1,905 → | BEIGE | Moderate |
| Sep 5, 2026 | Saturday | #1,904 → | SOUPY | Hard |
| Sep 4, 2026 | Friday | #1,903 → | WAGER | Moderate |
| Sep 3, 2026 | Thursday | #1,902 → | JOIST | Hard |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,901 → | RULER | Moderate |
| Sep 1, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,900 → | REMIX | Moderate |
On this day in Wordle
Past answers published on November 4 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
The doubled E raises the difficulty. Once a letter shows up yellow or green, few players try it a second time unprompted.
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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
The doubled A raises the difficulty. Once a letter shows up yellow or green, few players try it a second time unprompted.
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 10
- Tricky 9
- Hard 6