Wordle #1,798 Answer
May 22, 2026 · Friday
The answer to Wordle #1,798 was
VOCAL: Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech.
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Why it may be difficult: uncommon letters.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #1,798 scores 82/100 for solver difficulty (tricky).
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #1,798, measured
This section compares VOCAL's solver-difficulty percentile, first-guess results for ten familiar openers, and opt-in player reports. Each number identifies its dataset.
Solver difficulty, as a percentile
This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, VOCAL measured harder for the solver than about 82% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. The example solver route takes four turns; CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave a large group.
Solver pressure ranks the answer within the pool; it does not measure player performance. The opener table compares first-guess results, and the contributed ratings report player results.
CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU benchmark
CRANE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 28 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, ADIEU left 289 candidates, about 10 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| CRANE | CRANE | 28 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 34 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 59 |
| SALET | SALET | 69 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 78 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 96 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 101 |
| STARE | STARE | 131 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 159 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 289 |
“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,374-word working answer pool whose feedback would match that opener exactly. This is pattern arithmetic, not a simulation. A smaller number means the opener left fewer possible answers after the first guess. It does not describe later turns.
Contributed player ratings
Not enough contributed games to publish player figures for this puzzle. Per-puzzle numbers appear only after at least 10 opt-in games arrive. See how the Observatory collects and publishes player data →
See the solver's route to VOCAL → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to VOCAL.
The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for May 22, 2026?
- The Wordle answer for May 22, 2026 (puzzle #1798) was VOCAL.
- What does VOCAL mean?
- VOCAL: Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech.
- Why was Wordle #1798 tricky?
- VOCAL is rated moderate for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon letters.