Wordle #1,880 hints & answer for August 12, 2026
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Hints for Wordle #1880
What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as an adjective.
How it ends
Ends in Y.
Where the vowels sit
The only vowel is the second letter.
How it starts
Begins with W.
The middle letter
The middle letter is M.
Reveal the answer and explanation
The answer to Wordle #1,880 was
WIMPY: Having the characteristics of a wimp; feeble, indecisive, cowardly.
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 in general English, uncommon letters, 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: 65/100 (tricky). 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 #1,880, measured
This section compares WIMPY'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, WIMPY measured harder for the solver than about 65% of all 1,964 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. 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
ARISE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 113 of the 2,389 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, AUDIO left 277 candidates, about 2 times as many. SALET, SLATE, STARE, TARSE, TRACE and CRANE came back all gray. None of their letters appear in WIMPY.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| ARISE | ARISE | 113 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 113 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 120 |
| SALET | SALET | 230 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 230 |
| STARE | STARE | 236 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 236 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 256 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 274 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 277 |
“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 WIMPY → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to WIMPY.
The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for August 12, 2026?
- The Wordle answer for August 12, 2026 (puzzle #1880) was WIMPY.
- What does WIMPY mean?
- WIMPY: Having the characteristics of a wimp; feeble, indecisive, cowardly.
- Why was Wordle #1880 tricky?
- WIMPY is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English, uncommon letters, only one vowel.