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Wordle #1,938

October 9, 2026

By Akash Wadhwani. Checked against two sources, updated 5:00 AM ET.

A military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel. No letter repeats. 2 vowels. It starts with M and ends with R.

Today's Wordle answer, #1,938

MAJOR

What major means

Major: a military rank between captain and lieutenant colonel.

Yesterday's Wordle

Wordle #1,937, October 8, 2026, was STREW.

Wordle is five letters. This one is five words.

One real news sentence a day, twenty to thirty words, something that actually happened. Keep the five words a headline would keep and let the rest go. Here is yesterday's, solved.

At Camden Lock, a 71-year-old woman, Beatrice Millar, took off her shoes, jumped in after a drowning man and saved him by holding his head above water.

Five tries. blue is the right word in the right place, orange is one of the five sitting somewhere else, grey is not one of them. The result beats the process, a name or a job beats a place, and the little words never count.

How you finish decides which sticker you keep.

Got it in oneClean copyFirst editionSo closeSince day one
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