The answer to today’s Wordle (#1921) is STOKE.
Tuesday’s puzzle runs at medium difficulty. STOKE carries two vowels: O in position three and E in position five. No letters repeat, which gives solvers clean information from every guess. The K at position four is the trickiest element. It sits in an uncommon spot for that letter, and most standard opening words do not place K early enough to surface it.
If you want to find it yourself first, three hints without the answer:
Hint 1: Two vowels, at the third and fifth positions.
Hint 2: The word belongs to the world of fire and fuel, specifically the act of tending a furnace or keeping a flame going.
Hint 3: In everyday speech, the same word is used to intensify almost anything: a debate, a rivalry, a crowd’s energy.
Wordle #1921 Answer: September 22, 2026
The answer is STOKE: S-T-O-K-E.
STOKE means to tend or add fuel to a fire or furnace. The word traces back to Old English and has stayed largely intact across centuries. A stoker tends the boilers on a ship or locomotive. To stoke a fire is to encourage its spread by adding fuel and increasing airflow. The word moved into figurative use almost immediately: you stoke rivalry, stoke fears, stoke demand, stoke a crowd. The adjective form, “stoked,” meaning intensely excited or fired up, follows the same logic. It has the same root, just applied to a person running at full heat.
Difficulty: Medium. Openers that place S and T early (STARE, STORE, STONE) bring the first two consonants into position fast. The jump from STO to STOKE requires committing to K at position four, which is where most solvers burn an extra guess. Players who reach STO__ by guess three typically land STOKE on guess four.
Come back tomorrow for the Wordle answer for September 23, 2026.
