Updated for October 22, 2026. New hints go up when the puzzle changes at midnight Eastern time.
Stuck on Wordle #1951? Open the hints one at a time. Each one gives away a little more, and the answer is last.
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Hard Difficulty: hard, because it has a repeated letter and it is not an everyday word and it uses some less common letters.
Hint 1: Vowels and repeated letters
The word has 2 vowels (A, E, I, O or U). One letter appears more than once.
Hint 2: What kind of word it is
It is usually used as a noun or a verb.
Hint 3: What it means
A dictionary meaning, with the word hidden: To set back to the initial state.
Bonus hint: A riddle
When things go wonky, I whisk the whole contraption back to square one.
Hint 4: First letter
The word starts with R.
Hint 5: Second letter
The second letter is E.
Hint 6: Last letter
The word ends with T.
Hint 7: Letter pattern
R _ S _ T
Show the answer
The answer to Wordle #1951 is RESET.
About this puzzle
- Puzzle number: 1951
- Edited by Tracy Bennett
- This is the first time this word has been the answer.
Yesterday's answer (October 21, 2026)
PENNY. Yesterday's hints
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Wordle deep dive
More about today's puzzle. Everything in this section can include the answer.
Word profile: RESET
- Part of speech: noun, verb
- Syllables: 2
- How common: about 2.74 uses per million words of English, so it is an uncommon word.
Meanings
- To set back to the initial state.
- To set to zero.
- (transitive) To adjust; to set or position differently.
- (also figurative) The act of resetting to the initial state.
- The act of setting to zero.
Similar words: readjust
Rhymes: epithet, set, sobriquet, offset, fret, wet, yet, abet
How would your starting word have done?
Here is the first-row result today's answer would give for some popular opening words.
How much each hint narrows it down
Using the list of past Wordle answers as the word list, this is how many words would still fit after each hint.
- All 1923 past answers
- 283 have the same vowels and repeat pattern (hint 1)
- 21 also start with R (hint 4)
- 2 also end with T (hint 5)
- 0 also match the letter pattern (hint 6)
Past answers that look like today's
Earlier answers that share at least three letters in the same spots, or four of the same letters.
- WREST (October 20, 2026)
- STREW (October 8, 2026)
- ASTER (September 11, 2026)
- RISER (May 4, 2026)
- REMIT (November 27, 2025)
- CREST (April 14, 2025)
- RIVET (February 1, 2025)
- STARE (December 30, 2024)
- REBEL (September 10, 2024)
- STERN (September 4, 2024)
How common these letters are in Wordle
- R appears in 36% of past answers
- E appears in 47% of past answers
- S appears in 26% of past answers
- T appears in 30% of past answers
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