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  "description": "The five-letter word starts with W and means \"more knowledgeable.\"",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-28T10:06:22.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Wordle puzzle #1,740 landed on Wednesday, March 25, 2026, and the answer was a comparative adjective that most players encounter regularly in everyday speech. If you're still working through it or just want to confirm your result, here's everything you need.\n\n**Quick answer:** The Wordle answer for March 25, 2026 (puzzle #1,740) is **WISER**.\n\n* * *\n\n### Hints for Wordle #1,740\n\nIf you'd rather work toward the solution on your own before scrolling to the confirmed answer, these progressive clues should narrow things down without giving it away outright.\n\nHint| Detail\n---|---\nRepeated letters| None — all five letters are unique\nVowel count| Two vowels (I and E)\nFirst letter| W\nLast letter| R\nRare letters| No J, Q, X, or Z\nMeaning| Describes someone with more understanding or knowledge than another person\n\nBoth consonants that bookend the word — W and R — are relatively common in English, but W as a starting letter trips up a lot of players because it doesn't appear in most popular opener words like STARE, ADIEU, or TRAIN.\n\n* * *\n\n### Wordle #1,740 answer — WISER\n\nThe solution is **WISER** , the comparative form of \"wise.\" It traces back to Old English _wīs_ , meaning \"knowledgeable\" or \"prudent,\" which itself descends from Proto-Germanic _*wīsaz_ (\"knowing\"). The _-er_ suffix simply marks the comparative — \"more wise.\"\n\n💡\n\nA strong opening guess for this puzzle would have been any word rich in the letters I, S, E, and R. Words like RITES or RINSE would have lit up multiple yellow and green tiles on the first try.\n\n* * *\n\n### Recent Wordle answers (late March 2026)\n\nKnowing which words have already appeared helps you avoid wasting guesses. Here are the solutions from the days surrounding this puzzle.\n\nDate| Puzzle #| Answer\n---|---|---\nMarch 20| 1,735| OASIS\nMarch 21| 1,736| SLICK\nMarch 22| 1,737| BASIL\nMarch 23| 1,738| SERIF\nMarch 24| 1,739| BROOD\nMarch 25| 1,740| WISER\n\n* * *\n\n### Picking a strong starting word\n\nThe letters E, A, R, S, and T appear most frequently across English five-letter words, so any opener that packs several of those into one guess gives you the best statistical shot at early green and yellow tiles. Words like STARE, CRANE, and SLATE are perennial favorites. Trying to fit at least two different vowels into your first guess also helps eliminate large swaths of the word list quickly.\n\nFor a puzzle like WISER, the tricky part is that W rarely shows up in common starters. That's why a second guess matters just as much — once your opener reveals which common letters are in play, pivoting to less obvious starting consonants like W, F, or G on your second or third attempt can close the gap fast.\n\n* * *\n\nWordle resets daily at midnight in your local time zone, so a new five-letter puzzle is always waiting. If you didn't crack #1,740, don't sweat it — the streak resets, but the fun doesn't.",
  "title": "Wordle #1,740 Answer and Hints for March 25, 2026",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-28T10:06:23.745Z"
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