June 2026 in review

June 2026 is complete, with 30 puzzles and every date recorded. On the site's word-property scale it was an ordinary month. The highest estimated difficulty occurred on Jun 30, 2026 and the lowest on Jun 10, 2026; 13 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

Highest estimated difficulty

PUPPY 4 pts · Jun 30, 2026 · #1,837

PUPPY repeats P. A no-repeat strategy is slow to test the second copy, and the scale weighs each duplicate more heavily than any other single feature.

Lowest estimated difficulty

ALIGN 0 pts · Jun 10, 2026 · #1,817

ALIGN 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 Jun 10, 2026 to 4 on Jun 30, 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. June's 30 answers averaged 1.6 points on the estimated word-difficulty scale against 1.7 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

13 of 30 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 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.

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: Jun 1 (#1,808) doubled I; Jun 2 (#1,809) doubled S; Jun 4 (#1,811) doubled L; Jun 8 (#1,815) doubled A; Jun 11 (#1,818) doubled T; Jun 13 (#1,820) doubled L; Jun 16 (#1,823) doubled A; Jun 21 (#1,828) doubled I; Jun 23 (#1,830) doubled R; Jun 24 (#1,831) doubled E; Jun 27 (#1,834) doubled O; Jun 28 (#1,835) doubled E; Jun 30 (#1,837) doubled P.

Uncommon-letter days: Jun 9 (#1,816) used W; Jun 12 (#1,819) used K; Jun 13 (#1,820) used Q; Jun 16 (#1,823) used Z; Jun 17 (#1,824) used K; Jun 19 (#1,826) used J; Jun 20 (#1,827) used K; Jun 22 (#1,829) used V; Jun 24 (#1,831) used Q.

Repeat days: Jun 7 (#1,814) reused an answer first played in October 2021; Jun 12 (#1,819) reused an answer first played in December 2021; Jun 26 (#1,833) reused an answer first played in December 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.

DateDayPuzzleAnswerWord difficulty
Jun 30, 2026 Tuesday #1,837 → PUPPY Hard
Jun 29, 2026 Monday #1,836 → CRUDE Easy
Jun 28, 2026 Sunday #1,835 → EMCEE Tricky
Jun 27, 2026 Saturday #1,834 → SCOOP Moderate
Jun 26, 2026 Friday #1,833 → ACUTE Used 2 times Easy
Jun 25, 2026 Thursday #1,832 → UNITY Easy
Jun 24, 2026 Wednesday #1,831 → QUEER Tricky
Jun 23, 2026 Tuesday #1,830 → CURRY Tricky
Jun 22, 2026 Monday #1,829 → OVATE Tricky
Jun 21, 2026 Sunday #1,828 → ALIBI Moderate
Jun 20, 2026 Saturday #1,827 → DRAKE Moderate
Jun 19, 2026 Friday #1,826 → EMOJI Moderate
Jun 18, 2026 Thursday #1,825 → ENTRY Moderate
Jun 17, 2026 Wednesday #1,824 → TOKEN Moderate
Jun 16, 2026 Tuesday #1,823 → AMAZE Tricky
Jun 15, 2026 Monday #1,822 → BROIL Hard
Jun 14, 2026 Sunday #1,821 → SEPIA Tricky
Jun 13, 2026 Saturday #1,820 → QUELL Tricky
Jun 12, 2026 Friday #1,819 → BREAK Used 2 times Moderate
Jun 11, 2026 Thursday #1,818 → TESTY Tricky
Jun 10, 2026 Wednesday #1,817 → ALIGN Easy
Jun 9, 2026 Tuesday #1,816 → WHARF Tricky
Jun 8, 2026 Monday #1,815 → MAFIA Moderate
Jun 7, 2026 Sunday #1,814 → THUMB Used 2 times Moderate
Jun 6, 2026 Saturday #1,813 → MORPH Moderate
Jun 5, 2026 Friday #1,812 → NOBLY Hard
Jun 4, 2026 Thursday #1,811 → ALLOY Moderate
Jun 3, 2026 Wednesday #1,810 → NOTCH Moderate
Jun 2, 2026 Tuesday #1,809 → BASIS Moderate
Jun 1, 2026 Monday #1,808 → CHILI Moderate

On this day in Wordle

Past answers published on September 7 in earlier years. Every puzzle listed here is complete, so this section does not spoil a live game.

  1. 1 year ago
    Easy

    Nothing unusual appears in the letters: all five are distinct and familiar. Ordinary letter coverage works well on words like this.

    Puzzle #1,541 → Word page →

  2. 2 years ago
    Moderate

    Nothing unusual appears in the letters: all five are distinct and familiar. Ordinary letter coverage works well on words like this.

    Puzzle #1,176 → Word page →

  3. 3 years ago
    Hard

    The doubled L raises the difficulty. Once a letter shows up yellow or green, few players try it a second time unprompted.

    Puzzle #810 → Word page →

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

30 Answers
A Most common start (5)
Y Most common end (7)
PUPPY Highest estimated difficulty

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 14
  • Tricky 9
  • Hard 3

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