Today's NYT Wordle lands with puzzle #1941, and a familiar word wears a slightly unexpected shape. Whether you're protecting a streak or trying your first grid, there's room for a careful, satisfying solve.
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 #1941 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): Picture something exuberant echoing across a mountainside.
Level 2 (The Category): A verb for a distinctive style of singing.
Level 3 (The Boundaries): Starts with Y, ends with L.
Level 4 (The Structure): All five letters are different, and the vowels sit in positions 2 and 4.
Level 5 (The Giveaway): To sing by switching rapidly between a lower chest voice and a higher head voice or falsetto.
Quick-Reference Clues
First Letter: Y
Last Letter: L
Vowels Present: O, E
Double Letters: No
Rhymes With: MODAL, NODAL
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 #1941 is: YODEL
Word DNA: Breaking Down Today's Answer
YODEL means to sing with rapid changes between a lower chest register and a higher head register or falsetto. You can hear someone yodel during a musical performance, and the resulting song or call can itself be called a yodel.
Origins: English borrowed yodel from German jodeln, meaning to sing in this alternating-register style. The German word imitates the vocal syllables used in the singing.
Word Family: yodels, yodeled, yodeling, yodeler
Fun Fact: A yodel doesn't need lyrics, since singers can use vocal syllables to carry the melody. That makes today's word a neat vocabulary twist: it names a style of singing that can carry a melody without any words at all.
The Streak Saver Rating
I'd rate this 3 out of 5, with the opening Y as the main trap factor. The O and E give you useful footholds, and the absence of repeated letters keeps the rest of the structure straightforward.
An opener such as SLATE can uncover L and E while leaving the starting Y untested. A follow-up such as ROUND checks O and D, helping you build the word from evidence instead of repeatedly trying familiar initial consonants.
What This Puzzle Teaches
Keep Y available as a starting consonant, even when your first guesses leave it untouched. When several letters are known, use their position clues to rebuild the whole word instead of treating the opening slot as an afterthought.
Tomorrow's Reset
Puzzle #1942 drops at midnight in your timezone, Monday handing the streak over to a fresh board.
Did YODEL click once the vowels appeared, or did the opening consonant hold you up? Take that lesson into your next grid and start fresh.
See you at midnight for the next challenge.
