Highest estimated difficulty
PSHAW appears less than once per million words in the corpus-based frequency data, so familiarity alone sets a Brutal floor. Its letters add points too, but corpus frequency sets the minimum rating.
Past Answers
Wordle Answers: July 2026
Browse all 31 completed answers from July 2026, with a page for each puzzle's definition, difficulty and solver replay.
July 2026 in review
July 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 Jul 15, 2026 and the lowest on Jul 3, 2026; 14 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
BATON 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 Jul 3, 2026 to 5 on Jul 15, 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. July'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
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.
9 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.
3 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: Jul 4 (#1,841) doubled Z; Jul 6 (#1,843) doubled D; Jul 10 (#1,847) doubled A; Jul 11 (#1,848) doubled A; Jul 12 (#1,849) doubled C; Jul 13 (#1,850) doubled T; Jul 16 (#1,853) doubled T; Jul 17 (#1,854) doubled L; Jul 18 (#1,855) doubled O; Jul 21 (#1,858) doubled L; Jul 22 (#1,859) doubled R; Jul 24 (#1,861) doubled T; Jul 25 (#1,862) doubled A; Jul 29 (#1,866) doubled V.
Uncommon-letter days: Jul 2 (#1,839) used V; Jul 4 (#1,841) used Z; Jul 5 (#1,842) used W; Jul 11 (#1,848) used V; Jul 12 (#1,849) used K; Jul 14 (#1,851) used K; Jul 15 (#1,852) used W; Jul 20 (#1,857) used V; Jul 29 (#1,866) used V.
Repeat days: Jul 3 (#1,840) reused an answer first played in December 2021; Jul 13 (#1,850) reused an answer first played in August 2021; Jul 30 (#1,867) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2026 | Friday | #1,868 → | PURSE | Easy |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Thursday | #1,867 → | FLUME Used 2 times | Tricky |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,866 → | VALVE | Hard |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,865 → | SONAR | Easy |
| Jul 27, 2026 | Monday | #1,864 → | POSER | Tricky |
| Jul 26, 2026 | Sunday | #1,863 → | GRAPE | Easy |
| Jul 25, 2026 | Saturday | #1,862 → | ALOHA | Moderate |
| Jul 24, 2026 | Friday | #1,861 → | PUTTY | Tricky |
| Jul 23, 2026 | Thursday | #1,860 → | ORBIT | Easy |
| Jul 22, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,859 → | LORRY | Tricky |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,858 → | SHILL | Tricky |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Monday | #1,857 → | DIVER | Moderate |
| Jul 19, 2026 | Sunday | #1,856 → | CHURN | Moderate |
| Jul 18, 2026 | Saturday | #1,855 → | BOOTH | Moderate |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Friday | #1,854 → | LEGAL | Moderate |
| Jul 16, 2026 | Thursday | #1,853 → | BUTTE | Moderate |
| Jul 15, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,852 → | PSHAW | Brutal |
| Jul 14, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,851 → | STEAK | Moderate |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Monday | #1,850 → | STOUT Used 2 times | Moderate |
| Jul 12, 2026 | Sunday | #1,849 → | CLACK | Hard |
| Jul 11, 2026 | Saturday | #1,848 → | AVIAN | Tricky |
| Jul 10, 2026 | Friday | #1,847 → | CANAL | Moderate |
| Jul 9, 2026 | Thursday | #1,846 → | AMEND | Easy |
| Jul 8, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,845 → | DEMON | Easy |
| Jul 7, 2026 | Tuesday | #1,844 → | SLING | Moderate |
| Jul 6, 2026 | Monday | #1,843 → | TODDY | Tricky |
| Jul 5, 2026 | Sunday | #1,842 → | SWAMI | Moderate |
| Jul 4, 2026 | Saturday | #1,841 → | PIZZA | Hard |
| Jul 3, 2026 | Friday | #1,840 → | BATON Used 2 times | Easy |
| Jul 2, 2026 | Thursday | #1,839 → | MAVEN | Tricky |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Wednesday | #1,838 → | DEMUR | Brutal |
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 7
- Moderate 11
- Tricky 8
- Hard 3
- Brutal 2