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Hard Difficulty: hard, because it uses some less common letters.
Hint 1: Vowels and repeated letters
The word has 1 vowel (A, E, I, O or U). No letter repeats.
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: A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally i...
Bonus hint: A riddle
I guard road-trip treasures, need two hands, and open from the top.
Hint 4: First letter
The word starts with T.
Hint 5: Second letter
The second letter is R.
Hint 6: Last letter
The word ends with K.
Hint 7: Letter pattern
T _ U _ K
Show the answer
The answer to Wordle #1927 is TRUNK.
About this puzzle
- Puzzle number: 1927
- Edited by Tracy Bennett
- This is the first time this word has been the answer.
Yesterday's answer (September 27, 2026)
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Wordle deep dive
More about today's puzzle. Everything in this section can include the answer.
Word profile: TRUNK
- Part of speech: noun, verb
- Syllables: 1
- How common: about 10.24 uses per million words of English, so it is a fairly common word.
Meanings
- A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally it takes two persons to carry a full trunk.
- (Canada, US, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car.
- The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
- The torso; especially, the human torso.
- The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.
Similar words: body, boot, torso, proboscis, bole
Rhymes: punk, spunk, slink, bunk, plunk, funk, junk, clunk
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 1902 past answers
- 280 have the same vowels and repeat pattern (hint 1)
- 21 also start with T (hint 4)
- 6 also end with K (hint 5)
- 1 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.
- CLUNK (August 9, 2026)
- DRUNK (April 24, 2026)
- TRUCK (December 12, 2025)
- TRICK (September 9, 2025)
- BURNT (July 22, 2025)
- PRANK (June 17, 2025)
- TRACK (March 11, 2025)
- TRULY (November 6, 2024)
- THANK (September 26, 2024)
- FLUNK (August 29, 2024)
How common these letters are in Wordle
- T appears in 30% of past answers
- R appears in 36% of past answers
- U appears in 19% of past answers
- N appears in 24% of past answers
- K appears in 9% of past answers
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