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Hints for Wordle #1740

What kind of word

Wiktionary lists it as an adjective.

Fill the gap

“It was stolen with nobody being any the _____.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentence selected from Wiktionary, with the answer removed.

How it ends

Ends in R.

How it starts

Begins with W.

The middle letter

The middle letter is S.

Reveal the answer and explanation

The answer to Wordle #1,740 was

WISER: comparative form of wise: more wise

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

Word difficulty: Moderate

Why it may be difficult: uncommon letters.

The word rating describes familiarity and letter features. The solver score below measures how a fixed strategy handles the puzzle; an unusual word can still be easy for that strategy.

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How difficult was it for the solver?

Solver pressure: 54/100 (middle of the pack). This is a percentile among past puzzles under the same strategy: 0 is easiest and 100 is hardest for the solver.

127 Possible answers after CRANE
20 Possible answers after SLATE
40 Possible answers after ADIEU
3 Words in the _ISER family
4 Guesses in the solver replay

This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →

Wordle #1,740, measured

This section compares WISER'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

54/100

This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, WISER measured harder for the solver than about 54% of all 1,952 recorded answers to date. Its rating is middle of the pack. The example solver route takes four turns; CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave about 62.3 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

RAISE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 4 of the 2,384 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, AUDIO left 275 candidates, about 69 times as many. The vowel-heavy probes ADIEU and AUDIO revealed comparatively little here. Vowel coverage helps only when the answer's vowels are still in doubt.

First-guess feedback each opener would have received against WISER, and how many answer-pool words would still match it
OpenerFirst-guess feedbackAnswers still possible
RAISE RAISE 4
ARISE ARISE 7
SALET SALET 8
STARE STARE 14
TARSE TARSE 18
SLATE SLATE 20
ADIEU ADIEU 40
TRACE TRACE 118
CRANE CRANE 127
AUDIO AUDIO 275

“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,384-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 →

What did you get?

Tap your result to compare it with contributed games. Your choice stays in this browser and is not sent anywhere.

1 Suppressed
2 Suppressed
3 12
4 10
5 Suppressed
6 Suppressed
X Suppressed

The bars pool all 40 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 WISER.

The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.

Common questions

What was the Wordle answer for March 25, 2026?
The Wordle answer for March 25, 2026 (puzzle #1740) was WISER.
What does WISER mean?
WISER: comparative form of wise: more wise
Why was Wordle #1740 tricky?
WISER is rated moderate for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon letters.

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