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Hints for Wordle #1925

What kind of word

Wiktionary lists it as a noun.

What it means

“A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.”

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

The middle letter

The middle letter is E.

How it starts

Begins with E.

Where the vowels sit

The vowels are the first and third letters.

Reveal the answer and explanation

The answer to Wordle #1,925 was

ELEGY: A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.

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

Word difficulty: Tricky

Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English, a repeated letter.

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: 84/100 (tricky). This is a percentile among past puzzles under the same strategy: 0 is easiest and 100 is hardest for the solver.

130 Possible answers after CRANE
18 Possible answers after SLATE
201 Possible answers after ADIEU
4 Guesses in the solver replay

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Wordle #1,925, measured

This section compares ELEGY'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

84/100

This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, ELEGY measured harder for the solver than about 84% of all 1,951 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. It repeats E; 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

SLATE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 18 of the 2,384 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, ADIEU left 201 candidates, about 11 times as many. AUDIO came back all gray. None of its letters appear in ELEGY. 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 ELEGY, and how many answer-pool words would still match it
OpenerFirst-guess feedbackAnswers still possible
SLATE SLATE 18
SALET SALET 50
STARE STARE 120
TARSE TARSE 120
ARISE ARISE 124
RAISE RAISE 124
TRACE TRACE 128
CRANE CRANE 130
AUDIO AUDIO 197
ADIEU ADIEU 201

“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 ELEGY.

The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.

Common questions

What was the Wordle answer for September 26, 2026?
The Wordle answer for September 26, 2026 (puzzle #1925) was ELEGY.
What does ELEGY mean?
ELEGY: A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.
Why was Wordle #1925 tricky?
ELEGY is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English, a repeated letter.

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