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Medium Difficulty: medium, because it has a repeated letter and its letters are common in Wordle answers.
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: (transitive) (also reflexive and figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.
Bonus hint: A riddle
I help a mannequin become runway-ready, one layer at a time.
Hint 4: First letter
The word starts with D.
Hint 5: Second letter
The second letter is R.
Hint 6: Last letter
The word ends with S.
Hint 7: Letter pattern
D _ E _ S
Show the answer
The answer to Wordle #1954 is DRESS.
About this puzzle
- Puzzle number: 1954
- Edited by Tracy Bennett
- This is the first time this word has been the answer.
Yesterday's answer (October 24, 2026)
HOLEY. 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: DRESS
- Part of speech: noun, verb
- Syllables: 1
- How common: about 24.47 uses per million words of English, so it is a fairly common word.
Meanings
- (transitive) (also reflexive and figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.
- (transitive) (specifically) To attire (oneself or someone) for a particular (especially formal) occasion, or in a fashionable manner.
- (transitive) To design, make, provide, or select clothes (for someone).
- (transitive) To arrange or style (someone's hair).
- (transitive) (also figuratively) To adorn or ornament (something).
Similar words: set, plume, preen, apparel, trim, raiment, crop, clip
Rhymes: nonetheless, nevertheless, coalesce, distress, acquiesce, address, caress, assess
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 1926 past answers
- 92 have the same vowels and repeat pattern (hint 1)
- 3 also start with D (hint 4)
- 0 also end with S (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)
- SHRED (February 25, 2026)
- GRASS (December 17, 2025)
- GUESS (December 11, 2025)
- GROSS (October 17, 2025)
- DREAD (July 8, 2025)
- CREST (April 14, 2025)
- PRESS (September 19, 2024)
- BRASS (September 12, 2024)
- CROSS (January 31, 2023)
How common these letters are in Wordle
- D appears in 16% of past answers
- R appears in 36% of past answers
- E appears in 47% of past answers
- S appears in 26% of past answers
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