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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 2 vowels (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: A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean o...
Bonus hint: A riddle
I race downhill, carry stories, and end my journey in a bigger hug.
Hint 4: First letter
The word starts with R.
Hint 5: Second letter
The second letter is I.
Hint 6: Last letter
The word ends with R.
Hint 7: Letter pattern
R _ V _ R
Show the answer
The answer to Wordle #1929 is RIVER.
About this puzzle
- Puzzle number: 1929
- Edited by Tracy Bennett
- This is the first time this word has been the answer.
Yesterday's answer (September 29, 2026)
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Wordle deep dive
More about today's puzzle. Everything in this section can include the answer.
Word profile: RIVER
- Part of speech: noun, verb
- Syllables: 2
- How common: about 88.51 uses per million words of English, so it is a very common word.
Meanings
- A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
- Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
- (poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
- (poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.
- (typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
Rhymes: quiver, deliver, sliver, caregiver, giver, liver, upriver
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 1904 past answers
- 281 have the same vowels and repeat pattern (hint 1)
- 20 also start with R (hint 4)
- 10 also end with R (hint 5)
- 1 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.
- LIVEN (September 8, 2026)
- RULER (September 2, 2026)
- DIVER (July 20, 2026)
- MOVER (May 16, 2026)
- WAVER (May 14, 2026)
- RISER (May 4, 2026)
- WISER (March 25, 2026)
- RACER (January 16, 2026)
- MISER (December 13, 2025)
- LEVER (October 10, 2025)
How common these letters are in Wordle
- R appears in 36% of past answers
- I appears in 28% of past answers
- V appears in 7% of past answers
- E appears in 47% of past answers
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