Stuck on Wordle #1950? 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 uses some less common letters.
Hint 1: Vowels and repeated letters
The word has 1 vowel (A, E, I, O or U). It also contains a Y. 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: In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount.
Bonus hint: A riddle
I’m the tiniest traveler in your pocket, a little value that still buys a moment.
Hint 4: First letter
The word starts with P.
Hint 5: Second letter
The second letter is E.
Hint 6: Last letter
The word ends with Y.
Hint 7: Letter pattern
P _ N _ Y
Show the answer
The answer to Wordle #1950 is PENNY.
About this puzzle
- Puzzle number: 1950
- Edited by Tracy Bennett
- This is the first time this word has been the answer.
Yesterday's answer (October 20, 2026)
WREST. 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: PENNY
- Part of speech: noun, verb
- Syllables: 2
- How common: about 5.16 uses per million words of English, so it is a fairly common word.
Meanings
- In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount.
- In the US and (formerly) Canada, a one-cent coin, worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a dollar.
- In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.
- Money in general.
- (historical) In the United Kingdom and Ireland and many other countries, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount.
Similar words: cent, centime, priced
Rhymes: plenty, any, benny, jenny, penni, pennae, genae, twenty
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 1922 past answers
- 94 have the same vowels and repeat pattern (hint 1)
- 9 also start with P (hint 4)
- 8 also end with Y (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.
- RUNNY (August 24, 2026)
- PENAL (August 2, 2026)
- BUNNY (November 23, 2025)
- PETTY (June 16, 2025)
- SUNNY (January 26, 2025)
- PENNE (July 31, 2024)
- PESKY (March 11, 2024)
- FUNNY (December 18, 2023)
- PHONY (October 29, 2023)
- NANNY (June 3, 2023)
How common these letters are in Wordle
- P appears in 15% of past answers
- E appears in 47% of past answers
- N appears in 24% of past answers
- Y appears in 16% of past answers
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