Past Wordle Answers - Every Previous Solution

Wordle never reuses a solution. Every word below has already been the answer, which means you can safely cross all of them off your list of possible guesses — and that is genuinely useful information when you’re three guesses deep with two greens.

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This archive updates automatically each day as we publish the new answer. For today’s puzzle, see our Wordle answer today page.

Every past Wordle answer

September 2026

Date	Answer
18 Sep	SNOWY
17 Sep	THETA
16 Sep	WISPY
15 Sep	DEALT
14 Sep	RINSE
13 Sep	FOCUS
12 Sep	NIFTY
11 Sep	ASTER
10 Sep	DRYLY
9 Sep	BURST
8 Sep	LIVEN

Why knowing past answers helps

Wordle’s solution list is finite and curated, and once a word is used it is retired permanently. That gives you a real edge in two situations.

When you’re stuck between two candidates. If you’ve narrowed it to SHARE and SHORE and one of them appeared three months ago, pick the other. This is the single most practical use of an archive.

When you’re choosing an opener. Some players deliberately open with a recently-used word precisely because it cannot be the answer — it becomes a pure information probe with zero chance of an accidental win. Others find that pointless. Both are valid; the archive lets you do either deliberately rather than by accident.

What the archive won’t do is predict tomorrow. The remaining pool still runs to thousands of words, and the NYT editorial team has been known to swap entries. Treat it as elimination, not prophecy.

How the answer list is chosen

The original game shipped with a fixed list of around 2,300 solution words, hand-filtered by Josh Wardle and his partner from a much larger dictionary of valid guesses — roughly 13,000 words. That distinction still holds: you can guess far more words than can ever be the answer.

Since acquiring the game, the New York Times has taken editorial control of the solution order. They have removed words they considered obscure, insensitive or awkwardly topical, and they no longer publish the sequence in the page source the way early versions did. In practice this means the list is curated rather than random, and it skews toward common, unambiguous English.

Words with unusual letter patterns still appear regularly. If a puzzle feels unfair, it is usually a repeated letter rather than an obscure word — see the common traps in our daily answer page.

Patterns worth knowing

Repeated letters are more common than players expect. Words like ABBEY, MUMMY, LLAMA and SASSY show up often enough that assuming five distinct letters will cost you a streak eventually.

Plurals ending in S are rare. Not banned, but uncommon enough that burning a guess on a trailing S is usually a poor bet early on.

The vowel count clusters around two. Single-vowel words (CRYPT, NYMPH) and four-vowel words (ADIEU, AUDIO) both exist but are outliers. If you’ve found two vowels and nothing fits, look at consonant order before assuming a third.

Frequently asked questions

Can a Wordle answer ever repeat?
No. Once a word has been the solution it is retired, which is what makes this list worth checking.

How many Wordle answers are there in total?
The original curated solution list held roughly 2,300 words. The NYT has edited it since, so the exact current figure isn’t public.

Can I use this list to work out tomorrow’s answer?
No. It tells you what the answer cannot be, which narrows things but leaves thousands of candidates.

Why does this archive not go back to 2021?
It lists the answers we have published ourselves. It grows by one entry every day and we don’t backfill with figures we haven’t verified, because a wrong archive is worse than a short one.

Can I play the old puzzles, not just read the answers?
Yes — see how to play past Wordle puzzles.

Past Wordle Answers: Every Solution So Far