Wordle #1,826 hints & answer for June 19, 2026
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Hints for Wordle #1826
What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as a noun.
Vowels and repeats
Three vowels. No letters repeat.
How it starts
Begins with E.
Where the vowels sit
The vowels are the first, third and fifth letters.
How it ends
Ends in I.
Reveal the answer and explanation
The answer to Wordle #1,826 was
EMOJI: A digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a concept, object, person, animal or place, originally used in Japanese text messaging but since adopted internationally in other contexts such as social media. Or, by extension, any non-standard emoji-like image inserted inline in text, i.e. an image emoticon.
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: uncommon letters.
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: 42/100 (middle of the pack). 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 #1,826, measured
This section compares EMOJI'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, EMOJI measured harder for the solver than about 42% of all 1,952 recorded answers to date. Its rating is middle of the pack. 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
AUDIO left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 33 of the 2,384 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, SALET left 173 candidates, about 5 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 33 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 38 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 38 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 50 |
| STARE | STARE | 120 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 120 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 128 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 130 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 170 |
| SALET | SALET | 173 |
“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,384-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 EMOJI → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to EMOJI.
The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for June 19, 2026?
- The Wordle answer for June 19, 2026 (puzzle #1826) was EMOJI.
- What does EMOJI mean?
- EMOJI: A digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a concept, object, person, animal or place, originally used in Japanese text messaging but since adopted internationally in other contexts such as social media. Or, by extension, any non-standard emoji-like image inserted inline in text, i.e. an image emoticon.
- Why was Wordle #1826 tricky?
- EMOJI is rated moderate for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon letters.