Wordle #1,802 hints & answer for May 26, 2026
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Hints for Wordle #1802
What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as a noun.
What it means
“An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Where the vowels sit
The vowels are the second and third letters.
The middle letter
The middle letter is U.
How it ends
Ends in H.
Reveal the answer and explanation
The answer to Wordle #1,802 was
COUCH: An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter.
The word rating describes familiarity and letter features. The solver score below measures how a fixed strategy handles the puzzle; an unusual word can still be easy for that strategy.
How difficult was it for the solver?
Solver pressure: 94/100 (hard for the solver). This is a percentile among past puzzles under the same strategy: 0 is easiest and 100 is hardest for the solver.
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #1,802, measured
This section compares COUCH'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, COUCH measured harder for the solver than about 94% of all 1,964 recorded answers to date. Its rating is hard for the solver. It repeats C; the example solver route takes four turns.
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 27 of the 2,389 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, TARSE left 236 candidates, about 9 times as many. ARISE, RAISE, SALET, SLATE, STARE and TARSE came back all gray. None of their letters appear in COUCH.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| CRANE | CRANE | 27 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 40 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 53 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 175 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 175 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 195 |
| SALET | SALET | 230 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 230 |
| STARE | STARE | 236 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 236 |
“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,389-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 COUCH → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to COUCH.
The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for May 26, 2026?
- The Wordle answer for May 26, 2026 (puzzle #1802) was COUCH.
- What does COUCH mean?
- COUCH: An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
- Why was Wordle #1802 tricky?
- COUCH is rated moderate for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter.