Wordle #1,556 Answer
September 22, 2025 · Monday
The answer to Wordle #1,556 was
QUILL: The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
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Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter, uncommon letters.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #1,556 scores 86/100 for solver difficulty (tricky).
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #1,556, measured
This section compares QUILL'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
This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, QUILL measured harder for the solver than about 86% of all 1,906 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. It repeats L; the example solver route takes four turns.
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
ADIEU left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 13 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, CRANE left 273 candidates, about 21 times as many. STARE, TARSE, TRACE and CRANE came back all gray. None of their letters appear in QUILL.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 13 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 16 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 51 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 51 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 88 |
| SALET | SALET | 100 |
| STARE | STARE | 235 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 235 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 255 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 273 |
“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
Not enough contributed games to publish player figures for this puzzle. Per-puzzle numbers appear only after at least 10 opt-in games arrive. See how the Observatory collects and publishes player data →
See the solver's route to QUILL → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to QUILL.
The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for September 22, 2025?
- The Wordle answer for September 22, 2025 (puzzle #1556) was QUILL.
- What does QUILL mean?
- QUILL: The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
- Why was Wordle #1556 tricky?
- QUILL is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter, uncommon letters.