Highest estimated difficulty
CAROM appears less than once per million words in the corpus-based frequency data, so familiarity alone sets a Brutal floor. Its five distinct letters include at least two vowels and none of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.
Past Answers
Wordle Answers: April 2026
Browse all 30 completed answers from April 2026, with a page for each puzzle's definition, difficulty and solver replay.
April 2026 in review
April 2026 is complete, with 30 puzzles and every date recorded. On the site's word-property scale it was an unusually demanding one. The highest estimated difficulty occurred on Apr 10, 2026 and the lowest on Apr 2, 2026; 11 answers doubled a letter and 9 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.
The hardest and easiest answers
Lowest estimated difficulty
SOBER 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 Apr 2, 2026 to 5 on Apr 10, 2026. 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 demanding month by the estimate. April's 30 answers averaged 2.2 points against 1.5 across the trailing six months, 0.7 points above, outside the normal month-to-month spread of about ±0.3. More 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
11 of 30 answers doubled a letter, in line with the long-run archive rate of about 31%. This matches the usual rate. Test a repeat when the board stalls.
9 of 30 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W, in line with 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.
2 days reused an earlier answer. Repeats are ordinary in the archive, so do not discard a guess only because it has already been a solution.
Double-letter days: Apr 1 (#1,747) doubled Z; Apr 7 (#1,753) doubled E; Apr 12 (#1,758) doubled L; Apr 14 (#1,760) doubled C; Apr 17 (#1,763) doubled E and L; Apr 20 (#1,766) doubled E; Apr 23 (#1,769) doubled E and T; Apr 26 (#1,772) doubled S; Apr 27 (#1,773) doubled E; Apr 29 (#1,775) doubled R; Apr 30 (#1,776) doubled C.
Uncommon-letter days: Apr 1 (#1,747) used Z; Apr 5 (#1,751) used V; Apr 6 (#1,752) used W; Apr 20 (#1,766) used V and W; Apr 23 (#1,769) used W; Apr 24 (#1,770) used K; Apr 25 (#1,771) used W; Apr 28 (#1,774) used K and Q; Apr 30 (#1,776) used K.
Repeat days: Apr 4 (#1,750) reused an answer first played in October 2024; Apr 19 (#1,765) reused an answer first played in August 2021.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 2026 | Thursday | #1,776 → | CROCK | Hard |
| Apr 29, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,775 → | RURAL | Moderate |
| Apr 28, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,774 → | QUACK | Tricky |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Monday | #1,773 → | EERIE | Tricky |
| Apr 26, 2026 | Sunday | #1,772 → | GLOSS | Tricky |
| Apr 25, 2026 | Saturday | #1,771 → | WOMEN | Moderate |
| Apr 24, 2026 | Friday | #1,770 → | DRUNK | Tricky |
| Apr 23, 2026 | Thursday | #1,769 → | TWEET | Hard |
| Apr 22, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,768 → | SNORE | Tricky |
| Apr 21, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,767 → | CLUMP | Tricky |
| Apr 20, 2026 | Monday | #1,766 → | WEAVE | Hard |
| Apr 19, 2026 | Sunday | #1,765 → | STAND Used 2 times | Moderate |
| Apr 18, 2026 | Saturday | #1,764 → | TOADY | Hard |
| Apr 17, 2026 | Friday | #1,763 → | BELLE | Tricky |
| Apr 16, 2026 | Thursday | #1,762 → | CUBIT | Hard |
| Apr 15, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,761 → | BEGUN | Easy |
| Apr 14, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,760 → | CYCLE | Tricky |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Monday | #1,759 → | ELFIN | Hard |
| Apr 12, 2026 | Sunday | #1,758 → | ALLEY | Moderate |
| Apr 11, 2026 | Saturday | #1,757 → | PRUDE | Tricky |
| Apr 10, 2026 | Friday | #1,756 → | CAROM | Brutal |
| Apr 9, 2026 | Thursday | #1,755 → | LADEN | Easy |
| Apr 8, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,754 → | INLET | Easy |
| Apr 7, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,753 → | DENSE | Moderate |
| Apr 6, 2026 | Monday | #1,752 → | SWORN | Tricky |
| Apr 5, 2026 | Sunday | #1,751 → | ENVOY | Moderate |
| Apr 4, 2026 | Saturday | #1,750 → | SANDY Used 2 times | Moderate |
| Apr 3, 2026 | Friday | #1,749 → | SINGE | Hard |
| Apr 2, 2026 | Thursday | #1,748 → | SOBER | Easy |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,747 → | FIZZY | Hard |
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 4
- Moderate 7
- Tricky 10
- Hard 8
- Brutal 1