Wordle Answer for March 20, 2026

Why this word played the way it did

OASIS is unusually vowel-heavy with 3 vowels (O, A, I), so vowel-first openers paid off immediately. The letter S appears twice, and double letters are the single most common reason a streak dies — Wordle gives no special signal that a letter repeats.

The real danger came from near-neighbors: BASIS and NASIS differ by just one letter, and players who locked in four greens early often had to burn a guess — or two — separating them. The counter-move is to guess a word that tests the differing letters at once rather than trying each candidate in turn.

Community data puts puzzle #1735 at 5.0 guesses on average, which we rate hard. Anything under four guesses on this one was a strong result.