Wordle Hint Today and Answer – September 13, 2026

If those six hints have not gotten you there, one more push should do it - starting letter, visual clue, or the answer reveal below.

Not every Wordle is created equal, and today's is a decent example of a puzzle that can look easier than it plays. It rates as Easy (about 3.0 / 6 on our calculated scale). The word itself usually isn't rare or technical — most people recognize it once they see it. What makes it tricky is structural. There are also no repeated letters, which helps once you start locking greens and yellows. Wordle difficulty isn't really about how “hard” a word is to know — it's about how well it plays against the strategy you bring to it. If you want a second read on how tough today's word is playing, outlets like Mashable, Tom's Guide, and Forbes Wordle coverage all publish their own daily difficulty takes — worth comparing notes if you're genuinely stuck rather than relying on a single wordle hint today source.

Calculated difficulty - not official NYT player averages. See methodology.

Yesterday's Wordle answer

Yesterday's verified answer was #1910 (Sep 11, 2026). Reveal it below if you missed it — a different letter pattern, useful for comparison. Today's puzzle is a reminder that difficulty is about how the word plays against your opener, not only how well you know the vocabulary.

• Don't lean on the same opener every day. A single go-to starting word is comfortable, but it stops giving you new information once you've used it a few times. Rotating between two or three openers with different vowel and consonant coverage helps you adapt to trickier patterns.
• Treat a single confirmed vowel as a signal, not a dead end. When your first two guesses come back with only one vowel showing green or yellow, resist the urge to keep testing more vowels. Shift your third guess toward consonant combinations instead.
• Watch for common endings. English leans hard on a handful of word endings — -ER, -LY, -TY, -CK, -LE. If you've got a few green letters and an open final slot or two, testing a guess built around one of these endings is often more efficient than guessing blind.
• Don't assume no repeated letters is rare. It happens more often than casual players expect. If you've confirmed several unique letters and you're not seeing a repeat pattern emerge, don't force a double letter into a guess just because it “feels due.”
• Save your last two guesses for confirmation, not exploration. By guess four or five, you should be testing specific candidate words that fit everything you've learned — not fishing for new letters.
• None of this replaces the basics: green tiles are locked in the correct position, yellow tiles are in the word but the wrong spot, and gray tiles are eliminated entirely. Knowing when to switch from “gathering information” mode to “narrowing down” mode is usually what separates a three-guess solve from a nail-biter on guess six.

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A Note on Where Wordle Comes From

Wordle is owned and published by The New York Times as part of NYT Games, alongside puzzles like Connections and the Mini Crossword — so when people search for nyt wordle today or wordle new york times today, this is the game they mean. This page is an independent Wordle resource — it isn't affiliated with or endorsed by The New York Times, Mashable, Tom's Guide, Forbes, or any other outlet that also publishes daily Wordle hints. Several of those sites are worth checking if you want a second opinion or a different hint style, but every hint and answer here is compiled and verified independently.

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