Stuck on Wordle #1920? 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 is not an everyday word and it uses some less common letters.
Hint 1: Vowels and repeated letters
The word has 2 vowels (A, E, I, O or U). No letter repeats.
Hint 2: What kind of word it is
It is usually used as a noun.
Hint 3: What it means
A dictionary meaning, with the word hidden: (telecommunications) A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
Bonus hint: A riddle
I buzz in a pocket when distant voices want your attention.
Hint 4: First letter
The word starts with P.
Hint 5: Second letter
The second letter is A.
Hint 6: Last letter
The word ends with R.
Hint 7: Letter pattern
P _ G _ R
Show the answer
The answer to Wordle #1920 is PAGER.
About this puzzle
- Puzzle number: 1920
- Edited by Tracy Bennett
- This is the first time this word has been the answer.
Yesterday's answer (September 20, 2026)
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Wordle deep dive
More about today's puzzle. Everything in this section can include the answer.
Word profile: PAGER
- Part of speech: noun
- Syllables: 2
- How common: about 0.3 uses per million words of English, so it is an uncommon word.
Meanings
- (telecommunications) A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice messages.
- (computing) A computer program running in a text terminal, used to view (but not modify) the contents of a text file moving down the file one line or one screen at a time.
- (in combination) Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages.
- (bookbinding) One who makes up type into pages of a book; one who binds or sorts pages into a book.
- Acronym of Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response, a monitoring system for earthquakes.
Rhymes: major, agger, cager, rampager, teenager, gauger
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 1896 past answers
- 741 have the same vowels and repeat pattern (hint 1)
- 46 also start with P (hint 4)
- 4 also end with R (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.
- WAGER (September 4, 2026)
- GRIPE (August 6, 2026)
- POSER (July 27, 2026)
- GRAPE (July 26, 2026)
- AGREE (May 21, 2026)
- WAVER (May 14, 2026)
- GRADE (March 15, 2026)
- RACER (January 16, 2026)
- GRAVE (November 20, 2025)
- MAKER (November 19, 2025)
How common these letters are in Wordle
- P appears in 14% of past answers
- A appears in 40% of past answers
- G appears in 13% of past answers
- E appears in 47% of past answers
- R appears in 36% of past answers
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