Today's NYT Wordle lands with puzzle #1914, and it delivers a familiar word in a form that can stay hidden longer than expected. Whether you are protecting a streak or playing for the first time, there is a clean route through it.
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 #1914 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): Think of something settled, distributed, or handled.
Level 2 (The Category): A verb form describing something distributed, managed, or addressed in the past.
Level 3 (The Boundaries): Starts with D, ends with T.
Level 4 (The Structure): All five letters are different, and the vowels sit in positions 2 and 3.
Level 5 (The Giveaway): It describes what someone did with cards, a problem, or an agreement.
Quick-Reference Clues
First Letter: D
Last Letter: T
Vowels Present: E, A
Double Letters: No
Rhymes With: BELT, FELT, MELT
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 #1914 is: DEALT
Word DNA: Breaking Down Today's Answer
DEALT is the past tense and past participle of deal. It can describe distributing cards, handling a problem, trading in something, or giving someone a particular outcome.
You might say a dealer dealt the final hand, a team dealt with a setback, or a court dealt a severe penalty.
Origins: Deal comes from Old English dǣlan, meaning to divide, distribute, or share. The card-table sense preserves that old idea of portioning things out.
Word Family: deal, dealer, dealing, dealings
Fun Fact: The commercial and card-playing senses both grow from the idea of dividing or distributing shares. That broad history gives Wordle a familiar word whose inflected form is less likely to spring immediately to mind.
The Streak Saver Rating
Difficulty: 3 out of 5. The main trap is the EA pair producing the short vowel sound heard in BELT, followed by a compact LT ending.
All five letters are distinct, so every confirmed tile supplies fresh information, but the past-tense form can remain outside a solver's first sweep of base words.
A solver can recognize the opening vowel pair and pursue words with its more familiar long sound, missing the sharper pronunciation used here. Another trap is searching only nouns and present-tense verbs.
Once D and the final T are plausible, use a probe that tests L alongside unused consonants instead of recycling confirmed letters. That disciplined check exposes the past-tense construction quickly.
What This Puzzle Teaches
When a pattern feels familiar but no base word fits, expand the search to irregular verb forms. English past tenses often alter both spelling and pronunciation, making them excellent hiding places for Wordle answers.
Distinct-letter answers reward broad probing, so prioritize untested letters until the structure becomes clear. Save repeated-letter guesses for puzzles that provide evidence for them.
Tomorrow's Reset
Puzzle #1915 drops at midnight in your timezone, Tuesday handing the streak over to a fresh board.
DEALT is a tidy reminder that everyday verb forms can make stubborn puzzles. How did your solve go today?
See you at midnight for the next challenge.
