Wordle #1,861 Answer
July 24, 2026 · Friday
The answer to Wordle #1,861 was
PUTTY: A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fixate panes of glass.
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Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English, a repeated letter, only one vowel.
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: 95/100 (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 #1,861, measured
This section compares PUTTY'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, PUTTY measured harder for the solver than about 95% of all 1,918 recorded answers to date. Its rating is hard for the solver. It repeats T; 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
SLATE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 38 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, CRANE left 273 candidates, about 7 times as many. ARISE, RAISE and CRANE came back all gray. None of their letters appear in PUTTY.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| SLATE | SLATE | 38 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 81 |
| SALET | SALET | 88 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 94 |
| STARE | STARE | 102 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 115 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 174 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 174 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 193 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 273 |
“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 PUTTY → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to PUTTY.
The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for July 24, 2026?
- The Wordle answer for July 24, 2026 (puzzle #1861) was PUTTY.
- What does PUTTY mean?
- PUTTY: A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fixate panes of glass.
- Why was Wordle #1861 tricky?
- PUTTY is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English, a repeated letter, only one vowel.