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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 1 vowel (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: (music) A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it as an ornament; in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.
Bonus hint: A riddle
A note gets a tiny thrill, fluttering back and forth like a hummingbird's wings.
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 L.
Hint 7: Letter pattern
T _ I _ L
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The answer to Wordle #1952 is TRILL.
About this puzzle
- Puzzle number: 1952
- Edited by Tracy Bennett
- This is the first time this word has been the answer.
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Wordle deep dive
More about today's puzzle. Everything in this section can include the answer.
Word profile: TRILL
- Part of speech: noun, verb, adjective
- Syllables: 1
- How common: about 0.32 uses per million words of English, so it is an uncommon word.
Meanings
- (music) A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it as an ornament; in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.
- (phonetics) A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish ⟨rr⟩, /r/.
- (intransitive) To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.
- (transitive) To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill.
- A tremulous high-pitched vocal sound produced by cats.
Similar words: quaver, warble, shake
Rhymes: shrill, thrill, krill, skill, ill, instill, brill, bastille
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 1924 past answers
- 91 have the same vowels and repeat pattern (hint 1)
- 9 also start with T (hint 4)
- 1 also end with L (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.
- GRILL (August 19, 2026)
- TRIBE (August 17, 2026)
- SHILL (July 21, 2026)
- TRIAL (January 12, 2026)
- DRILL (October 23, 2025)
- QUILL (September 22, 2025)
- TRICK (September 9, 2025)
- FRILL (July 31, 2025)
- TRIPE (May 9, 2025)
- KRILL (April 4, 2025)
How common these letters are in Wordle
- T appears in 30% of past answers
- R appears in 36% of past answers
- I appears in 28% of past answers
- L appears in 28% of past answers
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