Past Wordle Words & Answers: Complete Archive

This list covers 5.3 years of puzzles, from June 19, 2021 through October 18, 2026, 1,948 answers in total. The overall average difficulty is 3.1/6. Search by word, date, or puzzle number, or switch to Alphabetical A–Z from the Sort menu.

All 1,948 published puzzles are scored on the same six-point difficulty scale. Each score blends NYT tester results with publicly shared player data, weighted before the final number is calculated. Older puzzles without measured results carry a word-analysis estimate, clearly marked.

These are the highest combined difficulty scores in the archive, using the same methodology and label bands as the home page and daily difficulty report. When two words share a score, the more recent one appears first.

Yes. 27 Wordle answers have appeared more than once, accounting for 1.4% of the 1,948 puzzles in this archive. No answer has been used more than twice. Every repeat so far has landed in 2026. March 2026 and May 2026 and August 2026 saw the most, with 4 reused answers each. The median gap between appearances is 4.6 years. SANDY returned fastest, after 524 days, while MAJOR had the longest wait at 1,918 days.

Most recently reused Wordle answers

The eight latest repeats, with the puzzle number and date of each appearance.

S leads by a wide margin, starting 291 past answers (14.9%), 1.7 times as many as runner-up C with 170 (8.7%). B follows at 148 (7.6%), while T and A are nearly tied at 6.6% and 6.4%. The top three letters account for 31.3% of all published answers, and the ten shown in the chart cover 70.7%. At the other end, J, Y, and Z start just 24 answers combined (1.2%), which is why a rare confirmed first letter narrows the pool much more sharply than a common one. These figures cover the 1,948 answers published through yesterday, not every word in the full Wordle dictionary.

Yes. 603 past answers have contained a repeated letter. The cards below show how common repeats are, how often an answer has just one standard vowel, and how many puzzles have landed in the Hard range.