Wordle #1,887 Answer
August 19, 2026 · Wednesday
The answer to Wordle #1,887 was
GRILL: A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
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Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter, only one vowel.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #1,887 scores 76/100 for solver difficulty (tricky).
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Wordle #1,887, measured
This section compares GRILL'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, GRILL measured harder for the solver than about 76% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. It repeats L; 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
ARISE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 24 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, AUDIO left 274 candidates, about 11 times as many. The vowel-heavy probes ADIEU and AUDIO revealed comparatively little here. Vowel coverage helps only when the answer's vowels are still in doubt.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| ARISE | ARISE | 24 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 30 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 50 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 53 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 88 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 95 |
| SALET | SALET | 100 |
| STARE | STARE | 102 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 105 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 274 |
“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 GRILL → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to GRILL.
The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for August 19, 2026?
- The Wordle answer for August 19, 2026 (puzzle #1887) was GRILL.
- What does GRILL mean?
- GRILL: A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
- Why was Wordle #1887 tricky?
- GRILL is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter, only one vowel.