Highest estimated difficulty
CLUCK appears less than once per million words in the corpus-based frequency data, so familiarity alone sets a Hard floor. Its letters add points too, but corpus frequency sets the minimum rating.
Past Answers
Wordle Answers: August 2021
Browse all 31 completed answers from August 2021, with a page for each puzzle's definition, difficulty and solver replay.
August 2021 in review
August 2021 is complete, with 31 puzzles and every date recorded. On the site's word-property scale it was an unusually gentle one. The highest estimated difficulty occurred on Aug 4, 2021 and the lowest on Aug 1, 2021; 14 answers doubled a letter and 5 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.
The hardest and easiest answers
Lowest estimated difficulty
REPAY has five distinct letters, 2 vowels and no uncommon letters. Common first guesses therefore test many of its letters.
The spread ran from 0 points on Aug 1, 2021 to 3.5 on Aug 4, 2021. Both numbers describe single words, not a sequence. A hard day and an easy one can occur in the same week, so the trend line below compares whole months rather than individual days.
The difficulty trend
An unusually gentle month by the estimate. August's 31 answers averaged 1.5 points against 1.9 across the trailing two months, 0.4 points below, outside the normal month-to-month spread of about ±0.3. Fewer answers with low corpus frequency, repeats, uncommon letters or few vowels appeared than usual. The scale combines general-English corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and missing vowels. It measures word properties, not player results.
Letters and patterns
14 of 31 answers doubled a letter, above the long-run archive rate of about 31%. That is the pattern that punishes never-repeat guessing: on a stalled board, testing a doubled letter should have come earlier than usual.
5 of 31 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W, below the long-run archive rate of about 28%. Standard openers test these letters less often, so the difficulty scale adds a penalty for each one.
No day reused an earlier answer: every puzzle this month was a first appearance in the site's recorded history. Repeats do happen, so a word having been a solution before is still no reason to drop it from your guesses.
Double-letter days: Aug 2 (#44) doubled I; Aug 4 (#46) doubled C; Aug 6 (#48) doubled I and M; Aug 8 (#50) doubled M; Aug 9 (#51) doubled N; Aug 12 (#54) doubled B and O; Aug 16 (#58) doubled L; Aug 18 (#60) doubled E; Aug 22 (#64) doubled B; Aug 23 (#65) doubled T; Aug 25 (#67) doubled S; Aug 27 (#69) doubled F; Aug 28 (#70) doubled E; Aug 29 (#71) doubled R.
Uncommon-letter days: Aug 4 (#46) used K; Aug 5 (#47) used K; Aug 8 (#50) used X; Aug 17 (#59) used V; Aug 30 (#72) used W.
How players fared
No day from this month has reached the Observatory's minimum public sample of 10 opt-in games, so no crowd numbers appear. The gate is deliberate: below it, a handful of results could stand in for a crowd and misrepresent a day.
Answer words are shown only for completed puzzles. Open a puzzle for its definition, difficulty and solver replay.
| Date | Day | Puzzle | Answer | Word difficulty |
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| Aug 31, 2021 | Tuesday | #73 → | ARGUE | Easy |
| Aug 30, 2021 | Monday | #72 → | SWIRL | Tricky |
| Aug 29, 2021 | Sunday | #71 → | ERROR | Tricky |
| Aug 28, 2021 | Saturday | #70 → | AGREE Used 2 times | Moderate |
| Aug 27, 2021 | Friday | #69 → | OFFAL | Tricky |
| Aug 26, 2021 | Thursday | #68 → | FLUME Used 2 times | Tricky |
| Aug 25, 2021 | Wednesday | #67 → | CRASS | Tricky |
| Aug 24, 2021 | Tuesday | #66 → | PANEL | Easy |
| Aug 23, 2021 | Monday | #65 → | STOUT Used 2 times | Moderate |
| Aug 22, 2021 | Sunday | #64 → | BRIBE | Moderate |
| Aug 21, 2021 | Saturday | #63 → | DRAIN | Easy |
| Aug 20, 2021 | Friday | #62 → | YEARN | Tricky |
| Aug 19, 2021 | Thursday | #61 → | Moderate | |
| Aug 18, 2021 | Wednesday | #60 → | SEEDY | Tricky |
| Aug 17, 2021 | Tuesday | #59 → | IVORY Used 2 times | Moderate |
| Aug 16, 2021 | Monday | #58 → | BELLY | Tricky |
| Aug 15, 2021 | Sunday | #57 → | STAND Used 2 times | Moderate |
| Aug 14, 2021 | Saturday | #56 → | FIRST | Moderate |
| Aug 13, 2021 | Friday | #55 → | FORTH | Moderate |
| Aug 12, 2021 | Thursday | #54 → | BOOBY | Tricky |
| Aug 11, 2021 | Wednesday | #53 → | FLESH | Moderate |
| Aug 10, 2021 | Tuesday | #52 → | UNMET | Tricky |
| Aug 9, 2021 | Monday | #51 → | LINEN Used 2 times | Moderate |
| Aug 8, 2021 | Sunday | #50 → | MAXIM | Tricky |
| Aug 7, 2021 | Saturday | #49 → | POUND | Easy |
| Aug 6, 2021 | Friday | #48 → | MIMIC | Tricky |
| Aug 5, 2021 | Thursday | #47 → | SPIKE | Moderate |
| Aug 4, 2021 | Wednesday | #46 → | CLUCK | Hard |
| Aug 3, 2021 | Tuesday | #45 → | CRATE | Easy |
| Aug 2, 2021 | Monday | #44 → | DIGIT | Moderate |
| Aug 1, 2021 | Sunday | #43 → | REPAY | Easy |
On this day in Wordle
Past answers published on September 8 in earlier years. Every puzzle listed here is complete, so this section does not spoil a live game.
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1 year ago
Corpus data records CHIRP less than once per million words of English, so familiar-looking letters can still hide an uncommon answer.
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2 years ago
There is just one vowel to find, which makes vowel-heavy openers less useful. The consonants do most of the narrowing.
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3 years ago
A trap-family answer: 4 answers fit the pattern _OUSE, so four green tiles can still leave several candidates.
The Easy-to-Brutal badge combines general-English corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and vowel count. It estimates word difficulty, not player results. Dates come from the site's recorded answer history.
Archive totals
Estimated word difficulty combines wordfreq corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and vowel count. It measures word properties, not player results. Compare solver difficulty →
- Easy 6
- Moderate 12
- Tricky 12
- Hard 1