The answer to Wordle #1,548 was

NOISY: Making a noise, especially a loud unpleasant sound

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Word difficulty: Easy

Why it may be easier: five different letters, at least two vowels and none of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.

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How difficult was it for the solver?

In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #1,548 scores 55/100 for solver difficulty (middle of the pack).

57 Possible answers after CRANE
43 Possible answers after SLATE
105 Possible answers after ADIEU
4 Guesses in the solver replay

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Wordle #1,548, measured

This section compares NOISY's solver-difficulty percentile, first-guess results for ten familiar openers, and opt-in player reports. Each number identifies its dataset.

Solver difficulty, as a percentile

55/100

This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, NOISY measured harder for the solver than about 55% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is middle of the pack. The example solver route takes four turns; CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave about 68.3 possible answers.

Solver pressure ranks the answer within the pool; it does not measure player performance. The opener table compares first-guess results, and the contributed ratings report player results.

CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU benchmark

ARISE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 9 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, TRACE left 255 candidates, about 28 times as many. TRACE came back all gray. None of its letters appear in NOISY.

First-guess feedback each opener would have received against NOISY, and how many answer-pool words would still match it
OpenerFirst-guess feedbackAnswers still possible
ARISE ARISE 9
RAISE RAISE 9
TARSE TARSE 22
AUDIO AUDIO 33
STARE STARE 39
SALET SALET 43
SLATE SLATE 43
CRANE CRANE 57
ADIEU ADIEU 105
TRACE TRACE 255

“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,374-word working answer pool whose feedback would match that opener exactly. This is pattern arithmetic, not a simulation. A smaller number means the opener left fewer possible answers after the first guess. It does not describe later turns.

Contributed player ratings

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1 Suppressed
2 Suppressed
3 Suppressed
4 Suppressed
5 Suppressed
6 Suppressed
X Suppressed

The bars pool all 26 contributed games across every completed puzzle. The Observatory does not publish per-puzzle guess distributions below its sample threshold, so this is the broadest available comparison. “Suppressed” marks a low-count cell.

Solver replay

One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to NOISY.

The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.

Common questions

What was the Wordle answer for September 14, 2025?
The Wordle answer for September 14, 2025 (puzzle #1548) was NOISY.
What does NOISY mean?
NOISY: Making a noise, especially a loud unpleasant sound
Why was Wordle #1548 tricky?
NOISY is rated easy for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be easier: five different letters, at least two vowels and none of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.

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