Wordle Cuts to the Chase with Today’s Silent Starter

On Thursday, September 18, Wordle’s daily puzzle challenged solvers worldwide with a five-letter word beginning with a silent letter and featuring a hidden kitchen tool, “KNIFE.”

The New York Times’ 1,552nd Wordle tested players with just one vowel placement strategy and no repeated letters, driving global gamers to decode clues efficiently.

Key Hints:

• Begins with a silent “K.”
• Contains two vowels, I and E.
• Synonyms include “blade” and “stab.”

Across social feeds and forums, enthusiasts leveraged strategic openers like SLATE and TRAIL to narrow their options to under 200 possibilities before slicing through to the correct word. Many found the knife-sharp clue “sharp and choppy” especially telling.

As guesses stacked up, successful players landed on the answer-KNIFE-within four tries or fewer, while some veteran solvers claimed victory on the very first attempt.