Today's NYT Wordle lands with puzzle #1875, and it belongs to that family of words that look like a typo until the moment they lock into place. The letters arrive in an order your eye keeps wanting to rearrange, and the fix is trusting the spelling rather than your instinct.
If you are guarding a long streak, slow down and give yourself one clean probe before committing, and if this is one of your first boards, today is a fair place to learn how a stubborn word gets cornered.
The Basics (For New Players)
Wordle gives you six attempts to crack a five-letter word. After each guess, tiles change color: green means right letter, right spot; yellow signals right letter, wrong position; gray indicates the letter isn't in the word at all. One puzzle per day, shared by millions worldwide. That's the beauty of it.
Created by Josh Wardle in 2021 and now part of The New York Times Games family, Wordle has become a daily ritual for word lovers everywhere. Today's puzzle #1875 awaits.
The Letter Rundown
Today's puzzle breaks down like this:
Vowel Count: 2 vowel(s)
Consonant Count: 3 consonant(s)
Repeated Letters: No repeats today
Letter Rarity: All common letters
The Elimination Game (Progressive Hints)
We've designed these hints to reveal just enough at each level. Stop when you've got it figured out.
Level 1 (The Vibe): There is a touch of theater in today's answer, the small performance someone puts on when the truth would be inconvenient.
Level 2 (The Category): It is a verb, and it sits in the meaning territory of pretending, faking, and putting on an appearance for someone else's benefit.
Level 3 (The Boundaries): Starts with F, ends with N.
Level 4 (The Structure): All five letters are different, and the vowels sit in positions 2 and 3.
Level 5 (The Giveaway): It means to put on a feeling or condition you do not actually have, the way a child manufactures a stomachache on a school morning or a guest acts astonished at a party they helped plan.
Quick-Reference Clues
First Letter: F
Last Letter: N
Vowels Present: E, I
Double Letters: No
Rhymes With: REIGN, CHAIN, PLAIN
Today's Wordle Answer
Final warning: The answer is directly below. Scroll only if you're ready.
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The answer to Wordle #1875 is: FEIGN
Word DNA: Breaking Down Today's Answer
FEIGN is a verb meaning to pretend to feel, have, or be something that you do not, usually to gain an advantage or dodge an obligation. You feign surprise at a gift you already peeked at, you feign illness to skip a meeting, and a striker feigns a shot to pull the defender out of position.
It carries a slightly formal edge compared with fake or pretend, which is why it shows up so often in novels and reporting: a witness feigns ignorance, a diplomat feigns indifference. The word implies a deliberate performance rather than an honest mistake.
Origins: Feign came into Middle English from Old French feindre, whose stem forms gave English the spelling with the silent letter, and that word traces back to Latin fingere, meaning to shape, mold, or invent. The path from shaping clay to shaping a false impression is the whole story of the word in one step.
Word Family: feigns, feigned, feigning, unfeigned, feint, feinted, feinting
Fun Fact: The Latin root fingere also produced fiction, figment, effigy, and figure, so today's answer is a distant cousin of every made-up story ever told. That inherited French spelling is exactly what makes it play well in Wordle: the silent consonant before the final letter follows the same pattern as reign and deign, and solvers rarely reach for it while there are ordinary spellings still on the board.
The Streak Saver Rating
Call it 4 out of 5. The trap factor is the vowel pair sitting back to back in the second and third slots, an arrangement most guessing habits fight, because solvers expect vowels to be separated by consonants.
The second squeeze is the fourth slot, where a consonant sits directly before the closing N with no vowel to cushion it. With five distinct letters and no repeats, there is no doubled-letter shortcut to lean on, so every slot has to be earned.
The classic wrong turn starts once F is locked in front and N is locked at the back. From there the mind fills the middle with familiar shapes like FROWN, FLOWN, and FUTON, and even after E and I turn up as present letters, the reflex is to shuffle them into spellings that keep a consonant between them.
The disciplined play is to stop rearranging and spend one guess as a probe. A word like GRIDE or DINGY tests the untried consonants around the fourth slot, and once that letter lights up, the double vowel opening is the only arrangement left standing.
What This Puzzle Teaches
When the first and last slots are green and the middle refuses to resolve, the problem is almost never the vowels you already found. It is the consonant you have not tested yet, so spend a turn eliminating candidates instead of reordering known letters.
Keep a mental shelf for words that borrow French spellings, because they break the consonant and vowel rhythm English usually follows. Recognizing that shape early saves a guess on every board that uses one.
Tomorrow's Reset
Puzzle #1876 drops at midnight in your timezone, Friday handing the streak over to a fresh board.
So how did FEIGN treat you: a clean fourth-guess landing, or one of those boards where you burned two turns rearranging the same letters? Tracy Bennett and the Wordle desk will have a fresh grid waiting tomorrow, and today's silent-consonant lesson is worth carrying into it.
See you at midnight for the next challenge.
