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Hints for Wordle #1937

What kind of word

Wiktionary lists it as a verb.

What it means

“To populate with at random points; to cause to appear randomly distributed throughout.”

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 R.

Where the vowels sit

The only vowel is the fourth letter.

How it ends

Ends in W.

Reveal the answer and explanation

The answer to Wordle #1,937 was

STREW: To populate with at random points; to cause to appear randomly distributed throughout.

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

Word difficulty: Brutal

Why it may be difficult: extremely rare in general English, uncommon letters, only one vowel.

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: 33/100 (easier for the solver). 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
12 Possible answers after SLATE
129 Possible answers after ADIEU
3 Words in the S_REW family

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

Wordle #1,937, measured

This section compares STREW'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

33/100

This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, STREW measured harder for the solver than about 33% of all 1,951 recorded answers to date. Its rating is easier for the solver. CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave a large group; it has a 3-word S_REW family.

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

TARSE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 1 of the 2,384 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, AUDIO left 197 candidates, about 197 times as many. AUDIO came back all gray. None of its letters appear in STREW. 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 STREW, and how many answer-pool words would still match it
OpenerFirst-guess feedbackAnswers still possible
TARSE TARSE 1
STARE STARE 2
SALET SALET 4
SLATE SLATE 12
RAISE RAISE 20
ARISE ARISE 22
TRACE TRACE 30
CRANE CRANE 127
ADIEU ADIEU 129
AUDIO AUDIO 197

“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?

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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.

Common questions

What was the Wordle answer for October 8, 2026?
The Wordle answer for October 8, 2026 (puzzle #1937) was STREW.
What does STREW mean?
STREW: To populate with at random points; to cause to appear randomly distributed throughout.
Why was Wordle #1937 tricky?
STREW is rated brutal for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: extremely rare in general English, uncommon letters, only one vowel.

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