Highest estimated difficulty
CAPON appears less than once per million words in the corpus-based frequency data, so familiarity alone sets a Hard 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: August 2026
Browse all 31 completed answers from August 2026, with a page for each puzzle's definition, difficulty and solver replay.
August 2026 in review
August 2026 is complete, with 31 puzzles and every date recorded. On the site's word-property scale it was an ordinary month. The highest estimated difficulty occurred on Aug 26, 2026 and the lowest on Aug 2, 2026; 10 answers doubled a letter and 7 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.
The hardest and easiest answers
Lowest estimated difficulty
PENAL 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 2, 2026 to 3.5 on Aug 26, 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 ordinary month. August's 31 answers averaged 1.7 points on the estimated word-difficulty scale against 1.8 across the trailing six months, and a gap of 0.1 points sits inside the normal month-to-month spread of about ±0.3. At roughly thirty answers a month that is sampling noise, not a change in how answers were chosen. The difference does not support changing openers or strategy. The scale combines general-English corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and missing vowels. It measures word properties, not player results.
Letters and patterns
10 of 31 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.
7 of 31 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.
4 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: Aug 1 (#1,869) doubled S; Aug 11 (#1,879) doubled E; Aug 14 (#1,882) doubled E; Aug 15 (#1,883) doubled O; Aug 19 (#1,887) doubled L; Aug 24 (#1,892) doubled N; Aug 25 (#1,893) doubled C; Aug 27 (#1,895) doubled U; Aug 28 (#1,896) doubled E; Aug 29 (#1,897) doubled O.
Uncommon-letter days: Aug 8 (#1,876) used V; Aug 9 (#1,877) used K; Aug 12 (#1,880) used W; Aug 20 (#1,888) used K; Aug 22 (#1,890) used W; Aug 25 (#1,893) used K; Aug 28 (#1,896) used W.
Repeat days: Aug 6 (#1,874) reused an answer first played in December 2021; Aug 7 (#1,875) reused an answer first played in July 2021; Aug 21 (#1,889) reused an answer first played in December 2021; Aug 25 (#1,893) reused an answer first played in October 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 |
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| Aug 31, 2026 | Monday | #1,899 → | MOUND | Easy |
| Aug 30, 2026 | Sunday | #1,898 → | INTEL | Easy |
| Aug 29, 2026 | Saturday | #1,897 → | BLOOD | Moderate |
| Aug 28, 2026 | Friday | #1,896 → | TWEEN | Tricky |
| Aug 27, 2026 | Thursday | #1,895 → | UNCUT | Moderate |
| Aug 26, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,894 → | CAPON | Hard |
| Aug 25, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,893 → | CLICK Used 2 times | Hard |
| Aug 24, 2026 | Monday | #1,892 → | RUNNY | Tricky |
| Aug 23, 2026 | Sunday | #1,891 → | OLDEN | Tricky |
| Aug 22, 2026 | Saturday | #1,890 → | PRAWN | Tricky |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Friday | #1,889 → | TRACE Used 2 times | Easy |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Thursday | #1,888 → | MURKY | Tricky |
| Aug 19, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,887 → | GRILL | Tricky |
| Aug 18, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,886 → | STRIP | Moderate |
| Aug 17, 2026 | Monday | #1,885 → | TRIBE | Easy |
| Aug 16, 2026 | Sunday | #1,884 → | ASPIC | Hard |
| Aug 15, 2026 | Saturday | #1,883 → | LOOSE | Moderate |
| Aug 14, 2026 | Friday | #1,882 → | GEODE | Hard |
| Aug 13, 2026 | Thursday | #1,881 → | CRASH | Moderate |
| Aug 12, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,880 → | WIMPY | Tricky |
| Aug 11, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,879 → | FENCE | Moderate |
| Aug 10, 2026 | Monday | #1,878 → | SNIPE | Easy |
| Aug 9, 2026 | Sunday | #1,877 → | CLUNK | Hard |
| Aug 8, 2026 | Saturday | #1,876 → | PRIVY | Tricky |
| Aug 7, 2026 | Friday | #1,875 → | FEIGN Used 2 times | Tricky |
| Aug 6, 2026 | Thursday | #1,874 → | GRIPE Used 2 times | Tricky |
| Aug 5, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,873 → | POSIT | Tricky |
| Aug 4, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,872 → | MOTIF | Easy |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Monday | #1,871 → | REPLY | Moderate |
| Aug 2, 2026 | Sunday | #1,870 → | PENAL | Easy |
| Aug 1, 2026 | Saturday | #1,869 → | SLUSH | Tricky |
On this day in Wordle
Past answers published on September 19 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
A trap-family answer: 5 answers fit the pattern _ATER, so four green tiles can still leave several candidates.
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2 years ago
The doubled S raises the difficulty. Once a letter shows up yellow or green, few players try it a second time unprompted.
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3 years ago
Nothing unusual appears in the letters: all five are distinct and familiar. Ordinary letter coverage works well on words like this.
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 7
- Moderate 7
- Tricky 12
- Hard 5