Puzzle #1928
Wordle Answer for September 29, 2026
SCUBA (noun) — (underwater diving) An apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding compressed, filtered air and a regulator which delivers the air to the diver at ambient pressure which can be used underwater.
Difficulty: Hard · players averaged 4.8 guesses
The day's hints, in case you're catching up
Hint 1Meaning
It means: (underwater diving) An apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding compressed, filtered air and a regulator which delivers the air to the diver at ambient pressure which can be used underwater.
Hint 2Vowels
It contains 2 vowels (U, A).
Hint 3Letters
All five letters are unique — no letter appears twice.
Hint 4First letter
It starts with the letter S.
Hint 5Last letter
It ends with the letter A.
Why this word played the way it did
SCUBA carries two vowels (U and A), a classic Wordle shape that most vowel-first openers surface quickly. All five letters are distinct, so no double-letter traps — every green and yellow you earned carried full information.
The real danger came from near-neighbors: SCUTA and SAUBA 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 #1928 at 4.8 guesses on average, which we rate hard. Anything under four guesses on this one was a strong result.
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