Wordle #1,742 Answer
March 27, 2026 · Friday
The answer to Wordle #1,742 was
IVORY: The hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals.
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Why it may be difficult: uncommon letters.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #1,742 scores 85/100 for solver difficulty (tricky).
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Wordle #1,742, measured
This section compares IVORY'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, IVORY measured harder for the solver than about 85% of all 1,906 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. The example solver route takes four turns; CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave a large group.
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 20 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, SLATE left 229 candidates, about 11 times as many. SALET and SLATE came back all gray. None of their letters appear in IVORY.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| ARISE | ARISE | 20 |
| STARE | STARE | 20 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 23 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 33 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 66 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 91 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 95 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 119 |
| SALET | SALET | 229 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 229 |
“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 IVORY → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to IVORY.
The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for March 27, 2026?
- The Wordle answer for March 27, 2026 (puzzle #1742) was IVORY.
- What does IVORY mean?
- IVORY: The hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals.
- Why was Wordle #1742 tricky?
- IVORY is rated moderate for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon letters.