Wordle #1,957 hints and answer for Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Today's Wordle is a milling word you may know best from an idiom about useful material. It has only one vowel and no repeated letters, which makes it slip past most opening guesses. Work down the hint ladder as far as you need, then check the answer box at the bottom.
Hints, in order
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Think of a mill: this is the grain that gets brought there to be ground into flour, and it lives on in the phrase for material that can be turned to good use.
There is only one vowel in the word: I. No letter repeats.
It is a noun: a quantity of grain for grinding at one time, and, by extension, anything that provides material to work with.
It starts with G.
It ends with T, the middle letter is I, the second letter is R and the fourth is S.
The answer
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GRIST: grain that is ground or ready for grinding at a mill - the word behind the phrase "grist for the mill," meaning material that can be put to good use.