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Wordle #1821 Solved: SEPIA, Rare Triple-Vowel Answer

6/14/2026

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Wordle Answers SEPIA

The New York Times Wordle puzzle #1821 on Sunday, June 14, 2026, answered SEPIA.
Hints said the word starts with S, ends with A, has three vowels and no repeats.
Wordlebot logged an average of 0.0 guesses and gave both luck and skill scores of 0.0.
SEPIA, a warm reddish-brown pigment from cuttlefish ink, is a rare Wordle answer with three consecutive vowels (E-I-A).

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Spoilers Advise

The June 13 and June 14 spoiler posts warn they reveal the day’s Wordle answer.
Both guides advise starting with “CRANE,” which WordleBot flags as optimal.
They also list alternative starter words such as “ADIEU,” “STARE,” and “ROAST.”
The June 13 guide lists clues—two vowels, a repeated letter, and a “stopping something” hint—while the June 14 guide offers hints of three vowels, an ending with “one,” and a color cue.

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Wordle Tips

The article cites a 2025 study that identified the year’s ten most difficult Wordle words.
It offers a tip sheet ranking letters by frequency—highlighting E, A and R—and advises avoiding Z, J and Q in starter guesses because they appear least often.
The guide notes the June 14 answer starts with S, a rare initial letter, and recommends starter words such as ADIEU, TRAIN, CLOSE, STARE and NOISE.

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Wordle Q-Opening

Wordle #1820 used a rare Q-opening, a term beginning with Q that appears in 2 % of answers.
The word derives from Old English cwellan ‘to kill’ and later meant suppressing.
Its family includes quelled, quelling, quells and unquelled, showing productive morphology.
The puzzle received a 3 / 5 difficulty rating, a high trap factor, and 3.8 guesses.
Probing Q-words such as QUAFF, QUEST, QUICK, QUEEN or QUOTE tests the required QU cluster.

History

Historical Context

In October 2021 Josh Wardle released the five-letter puzzle Wordle, which went viral and attracted over 2 million daily players by early 2022. On January 31 2022 the New York Times bought the game for a low-seven-figure sum, fast-tracking its integration into the Times’ digital-puzzle suite—alongside Spelling Bee—to boost subscriber growth toward its 10-million-digital-subscriber goal. The deal beat a Washington Post offer and fueled a summer surge.

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Wordle Answers SEPIA

The New York Times Wordle puzzle #1821 on Sunday, June 14, 2026, answered SEPIA.
Hints said the word starts with S, ends with A, has three vowels and no repeats.
Wordlebot logged an average of 0.0 guesses and gave both luck and skill scores of 0.0.
SEPIA, a warm reddish-brown pigment from cuttlefish ink, is a rare Wordle answer with three consecutive vowels (E-I-A).

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