NYT Wordle Answer Today (#1918) – 19 Sep 2026 Solution & Hints
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About Today’s Wordle
Wordle #1918 (published September 19, 2026) gives you six guesses to find a five-letter word. Green = correct letter in the right spot, yellow = in the word but wrong spot, gray = not in the word. WordleBot pegs today’s puzzle as solving in a little over four guesses on average, which puts it squarely in medium territory — not a gimme, but nothing that should wreck your streak either.
Non-Spoiler Overview
Today’s word is a common, everyday verb rather than an obscure or unusual choice. It’s the kind of word you’d recognize instantly in a sentence, even if it doesn’t jump to mind first when you’re staring at a blank Wordle grid.
Most solvers should find this one manageable if they open with a strong vowel-testing word and stay flexible about which consonants come next. The difficulty here isn’t in the word’s obscurity — it’s in how easily it can be confused with a similar, more common word that shares most of the same letters.
A frequent misstep with puzzles like this is locking onto the first plausible word that fits a partial pattern and refusing to let go of it, even when new letter feedback suggests a slightly different word altogether. Staying open to close cousins of your working guess pays off today.
Hints
Theme / Domain
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Today’s word lives in the everyday vocabulary of sleep and alertness — the kind of verb you’d see in a novel describing someone stirring from bed, or in a headline about “rousing” public interest in something.
Meaning Nudge
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It means to rouse from sleep or to become awake — it can be used both ways, as in waking yourself up or waking someone else up.
Part of Speech
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It’s a verb, and it can function transitively (you waken someone) or intransitively (you waken on your own).
Tone / Register
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Slightly more literary and formal than its everyday cousin “wake up” — you’re more likely to see it in poetry, classic literature, or a slightly elevated news headline than in casual conversation.
Usage Clue
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Think of phrases like “waken the sleeping giant” or “she began to waken as the sun rose” — it’s often paired with imagery of gradual, natural stirring.
Letter Pattern Help
Starting Letter
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Starts with: W.
Ending Letter(s)
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Ends with: N.
Vowel Count
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Two vowels appear in today’s word, and they’re two different vowels — no repeats among them.
Repeated Letters
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No repeated letters at all — all five letters are unique.
Pattern Shape
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Final pattern: W A K E N.
Rare/Tricky Letters
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Nothing exotic like Q, X, or Z — but the middle consonant sound is a little less common in Wordle answers, so it can catch solvers who aren’t expecting it there.
Rhyme or Analogy
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Rhymes with “taken,” “shaken,” “bacon,” and “mistaken.”
Today’s Answer
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Wordle #1918 Answer: WAKEN
Definition & Example
Definition
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WAKEN — to wake up or become awake; to rouse someone else from sleep or inactivity.
Example Usage
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Example: “The birdsong outside her window was enough to waken her before the alarm even went off.”
Quick Strategy Tips
Open with a word that tests a wide, varied spread of vowels and common consonants — you want maximum information from guess one, not a word that merely feels promising. Whatever comes back, treat gray letters as just as valuable as green or yellow ones; ruling things out narrows your options just as fast as confirming them.
When your letter feedback starts pointing toward more than one plausible word, resist the urge to guess your favorite immediately. Instead, pick whichever candidate eliminates the most letters shared between the remaining options, so your next result is as informative as possible even if it isn’t the winning guess.
How I Solved Today’s Wordle
I started with AUDIO to map vowels. None of those five letters showed up in today’s word at all, which was actually useful — it told me right away I was dealing with a word built around different vowels entirely, and I could stop wasting mental energy on A, U, I, and O as likely candidates in most positions.
For my second guess, I leaned into a word that tested frequent consonants alongside another shot at placing a vowel in a new spot. That guess came back with one letter confirmed as being in the word but in the wrong position, plus a couple of consonants ruled out entirely — enough to start sketching a rough skeleton for the word.
From there, the shape came together quickly. The remaining open positions pointed toward a common two-syllable verb, and once I tried a guess built around that idea, the puzzle resolved cleanly on the next attempt — one of the more satisfying finishes this week, especially since WordleBot rates this one as trickier than average.
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I started with AUDIO to map vowels. That surfaced nothing — none of A, U, D, I, or O appeared in today’s word, which meant I was almost certainly looking at a word built around E as its main vowel, possibly paired with A. Next I played STARE to test common consonants alongside another shot at A. That came back with A confirmed as present but in the wrong spot (yellow, second position), while S, T, and R were all ruled out as absent. With A in the word but not in slot two, and E still unaccounted for, I started thinking about words that open with a strong consonant, place A in the third slot, and close out with a familiar “-EN” ending. From there, WAKEN lined up cleanly: the W-A-K-E-N frame fit every constraint I had — two unique vowels, no repeated letters, and a shape that matched the “rouse from sleep” theme I’d started suspecting from the earlier feedback. It went in on the next guess and turned green across the board.
FAQ: Common Sticking Points
How many vowels are in today’s Wordle?
Two.
Is there a double letter?
No.
Any tricky letters?
Nothing rare, but the middle consonant sound trips up solvers who lock onto a more common look-alike word too early.
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