Happy 5th Year Birthday Wordle!
(and happy 🩴 Flip Flop Day.)
EMOJI 🎉 🤩 🥳 Record comments! Solo 2: Elaine Close. Much yellow today. Grid Art: Kim sees Paul’s Blooming saguaro, Kim flying kites. And: Wordle Tool Talk.
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#1826 FRI 06/19/2026
Spoilers OK here. For today’s puzzle, post your comments, replies, wins, rants, or any observation. Feel free to paste in your green + yellow box solution share, Scoredle, or WordleBot results.
86 responses to “#1826 FRI 06/19/2026”
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Late to the party…
Wordle 5-for-5 Challenge Complete 🎊
Wordle 1,826 3/6⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨 VOICE
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 ENOKI
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EMOJI
#1 VOICE – Just had a feeling about it… Good thing! I thought those letters gave me a good foundation. But then when I thought of which words I could get…🙄 I did use the filter but that was not much help. I was convinced that the word started with E but where to put the I and O? Every word I thought of didn’t work. EVOKE? V was eliminated. Does the word end in I?
#2 ENOKI – Look at that! Three green letters! I tried EMO?I in the filter. Zilch! Oh! But then I saw it –
#3 EMOJI – Good grief! I’m amazed I got it in three tries! -
It took me a long time…
Wordle 5-for-5 Challenge Complete 🎊
Wordle 1,826 3/6*⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩WordleBot
Skill 68/99
Luck 69/99
NYT AVG. 4.1I was happy to get the 5 for 5 badge.
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STILE
BIKER
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Well done!
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My 2nd guess was stupid. I immediately got swept up (yet again!) thinking Tracy did something cool for Juneteenth and I entered it before thinking it through or even checking if it was PU, which it was and I knew that! 🤦🏻♀️ Oh well. Still a good solve in my book.
Wordle 1,826 3/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 COUPE 55
🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ EBONY 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EMOJIWordleBot
Skill 77/99
Luck 80/99_/^__/^__/^__/^__/^__/^__/^__/^__/^__/^__/^
That’s me and my childhood boyfriend flying kites in our park.-
Nicely done.
I briefly considered EBONY for the same reason until I realized that I already played the “N”.
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Glad we finally got the add rather than a repeat.
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Agreed!
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100%!
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diggin’ the kite image! 🌬️🪁
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I remember making fabric kites out of old bedsheets, twigs and twine. Yes they flew in the Saskatchewan prevailing winds!
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How fun! Ours were bought from the local old town kite store. I loved that Pete had his attached to a fishing rod. I thought he was the coolest ever.
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Wordle 5-for-5 Challenge Complete 🎊
Wordle 1,826 5/6*⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ TREAD
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨 SHONE
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ EPOXY
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ EBOOK
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EMOJI[Asleep in the Crow’s Nest]
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In regards to ADD’s.
I figured out from Wordle Tools, that there will be about 4 new ADD’s in the next 30 days.
Let’s hope these are used instead of REPEATS (but probably not).
So, that’s one ADD every 7 or 8 days.
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If Tracy was going for an overall rate of 1 ADD per 10 days (like it was originally), she’s currently 5 words behind.She’s got some catching up to do!
The REPEAT rate is one REPEAT every 9 days currently, but she’s about 4 days off of the pace of 1 REPEAT every 10 days (like that was originally) since the last REPEAT was “BREAK” on 6/12/26.
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Thanks, JD. Love these kinds of updates.
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You’re welcome.
More to come as it evolves.
I made some more discoveries today regarding green scores on starting words. I’ll explain more next week.
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🙃 it’s the frosting on the cake of wordle!
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Happy Birthday to Wordle!
Wordle 5-for-5 Challenge Complete 🎊
Wordle 1,826 2/6⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 Close
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EmojiThis was a “gift” from Ms. Bennett to all those who started with Close today, which left only Emoji as a possible answer not on PUL. 🙂
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Awesome!
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Could you have played EBOOK? I think you could have.
I had to choose between EMOJI and EBOOK both were in the ADD category.
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Hi JD,
I did not realize until I saw the other posts that EMOJI was an ADD!
EMOJI showed up on the Wordle Solver – Answer Helper Tool at tryhardguides.com, but EBOOK did not.This afternoon I did a search for the expanded Wordle answer list. This took me to WORDSRATED at https://wordsrated.com/solvers/wordle-words/ ncludes EMOJI but not EBOOK.
The expanded list seems to be somewhat secretive, so do we know where to see the definitive Expanded Wordle Answer List?
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Lucky for you EBOOK wasn’t on your list. So, you didn’t consider it anyway.
When I analyzed it for frequent use, I found EBOOK to be more commonly used.
That actually surprised me since people use EMOJIs all the time.
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Nice solve Elaine!
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Sweet!
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🎉🎉
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Wordle 5-for-5 Challenge Complete 🎊
Wordle 1,826 4/6⬛⬛🟦⬛⬛
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🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧STEAL, ROUND left 7 possible, but only EMOJI, EVOKE unused. EVOKE left 3 possible but only EMOJI unused. I believe emoji was an add?
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You are correct, sir. EMOJI is an ADD.
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Wordle 5-for-5 Challenge Complete 🎊
Wordle 1,826 4/6⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ASTER
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 FUDGE
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ WENCH
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EMOJILooking to place the E and eliminated 12 popular letters, KVELL was still possible but, I then wanted a word with more vowels
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The Tale of the Traveling E: An Ephemeral Errand
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Wordle 1,826 4/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ Saner
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ Light
🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨 Jumbo
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EmojiAfter Light, the two remaining unused common words were Emoji and Juvie. The chance of reuse was medium (thanks to FF), so I decided to try 5 more new letters.
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Wordle 5-for-5 Challenge Complete 🎊
Wordle 1,826 3/6⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ PLUMY
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨 AMINO
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EMOJI-
Welcome to the After Party RT!
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Nice solve!
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PLUMY is a new one. I like it.
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WordleBot 1826 5/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ cigar* #0 #1689 175wl
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ fifth* #1427 79
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 spike 7
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ equid 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 emoji*Too quick on my two prediction guesses and didn’t notice the yellow i. Doh!
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You are brave.
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Too risky for my liking, but you do you, Maverick! 😉
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Wordle 5-for-5 Challenge Complete 🎊
Wordle 1,826 6/6*⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ party on a whim
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ could
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨 shove
⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ gooey
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ ebook
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 emoji phew for sure-
I almost played EBOOK myself.
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Blooming saguaro 🌵
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I did not detect a sweet, melon-like fragrance.
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Wordle 5-for-5 Challenge Complete 🎊
Wordle 1,826 4/6⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ROATE
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ OLDEN
🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ EPOCH (170)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EMOJI (ADD)So, I guess since this is the Wordle anniversary, she decided this is the perfect day for the ADD.
ROATE narrows it down to OLDEN, DEMON and FELON.
Any of the 3 would have led to the other 2.
The tiebreaker is the L in OLDEN which is a tier 2 letter. This gives me L, N, D off the board.
After OLDEN, I eliminated all 3 unplayed 2315 words.
So, it’s a REPEAT, right? (wrong)
The only REPEATS that work are
EPOCH (170)
EPOXY (280)
GECKO (325.2)Guessing EPOCH is the earliest REPEAT and certainly would have led to the other 2.
Now, C, H, P are off the board and the REPEATS have been eliminated.
Now, it has to be an ADD!
The only ones that work were.
EBOOK and EMOJI
EBOOK COCA score is 2389
EMOJI COCA score is 382If we recall LORIS, another ADD. It’s COCA score is only 137.
How much does Tracy care about word frequency.
Finally, I had a hunch about EMOJI. I was correct.
This puzzle was the most challenging in a while. I am not disappointed in a 4 score at all.
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Wordle Factory making new words for the answer list!-
New word factory. Fitting!
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Sometimes playing your hunch pays off! 🙂
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Those stacks are smoking’!
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Can someone send me the link they use to see the Wordle original list (the one you reference to know if they’ve ADDED a word?
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I replied to yesterday’s post so you don’t accidentally scroll down and see the answer (in case you’re still playing)
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Comments with two or more links go into moderation. That’s fine. It just helps avoid spam.
Lists here:
https://www.fiveforks.com/wordle/daily/1825-thu-06-18-2026/comment-page-1/#comment-5026 -
I consolidated that list by removing all the PUs and organized it for quick scanning. It made it much easier for me to spot potential guesses.
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I did the same thing. Every day I enter in the Wordle game number for the played word and then resort the list. That way I keep track of all the played words which allows me to track the ADD’s and REPEAT’s while simultaneously maintaining the list of unplayed words from the original 2315 list.
As a result, I don’t even refer to the FF list anymore, because it’s baked into my list.
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My my, some serious Wordler’s here!
JD, what is a COCA score?-
English Corpora website allows you to scan any word vs all written materials (books, newspapers etc. ) to see how many times per billion words a particular word is used.
This allows you to see how common a word is.
When you have to make a guess between 2 words, quite often, the more common word is the answer (but not always!)
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I tied the Bot today…
Wordle 5-for-5 Challenge Complete 🎊
Wordle 1,826 4/6⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ CRASH
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ BOUND
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ PIVOT
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😎 i’ll take that three
and fini
my coffee!Wordle 5-for-5 Challenge Complete 🎊
Wordle 1,826 3/6*⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ creek
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 abode
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 emoji-
I think today (considering the ADD), 3 is a 2.
Nicely done!
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Happy 5th Birthday Wordle 🎂
Wordle 1,826 3/6⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ CLOUT
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨 AROSE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EMOJINew add word today!
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Well done!
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When will AROSE have its day???
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ARISE #1603 11/08/25 was very late to the game. So maybe AROSE is also sleeping in?
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Funny thing was, I hade AROSE on my list of starts before even noticing that ARISE hadn’t yet been used. When it came up I was surprised. Sometimes I can be slow that way.
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I am finding that ARISE, AROSE might be better start words than ROATE and ORATE based on the unplayed words left on the 2315 list.
I haven’t finished my analysis yet but the whole letter frequency chart is going to change.
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Wordle 5-for-5 Challenge Complete 🎊
Wordle 1,826 4/6*⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ STEAL
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ PRIED
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 WINCE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EMOJII had to get over the “hurdle” to find the answer.
Congrats to e drunken whi earned their two (or more) badges today.
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OK, you played after all. I wasn’t sure that you scrolled down.
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Ooh. PRIED is a good one!
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Wordle 5-for-5 Challenge Complete 🎊
Wordle 1,826 3/6⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ adieu
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ piece
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 emoji-
Great!
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Questionably placed Rhode Island Z Tetris PIECE.
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Wordle 5-for-5 Challenge Complete 🎊
Wordle 1,826 5/6⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ KUDOS (for the game……)
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 BINGO (well, one day…..)
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ OPTIC (where oh where do the O + I go ??!!)
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ VOILA (knew this was wrong but just could not get a consonant!)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 none of these from me today !!made hard work of this
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lots of mustard on that dog
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I never quite had one like this. Sea of yellow comprising only E’s and O’s. “There was a farmer…EOEOE???”
Scoredle 4/6*
14,855
⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ FELON (689)
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 COUPE (60)
🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ OVERT (6)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EMOJI-
Same !
IOIOIOI (computer code ?)-
hi ho hi ho
it’s off to work we gosnow white and the seven dwarfs
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ohh eee ohh
eee ohh ohhwizard of oz
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If you only you had played the “I” in “EIEIO”. LOL.
Shout out to farmer McDonald!
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⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ CHOIR
⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ VIOLA
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EMOJIAfter not seeing anything in the past list for I?O?? or ??O?I, I just started sounding out stuff. I kept drifting to the word “emote” here despite knowing there was an I, then when I hit backspace twice it hit me. Fun word today.
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Welcome to the After Party Lyla!
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Lyla,
We were thinking alike : my first word was ANNUM, just giving a floating M. EMOTE came to me right away, it was not PU, and it complied with EAROT LISNC. Finally I decided to try it, even though I doubted it would be a solution. EMO** just did not make sense, until I had a head-slapping moment. New word(s) added recently…what might be a new word? Fun word for sure!-
Wordle 1,826 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ANNUM 141 wl
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ EMOTE 1 wl
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EMOJIWordleBot
Skill 91/99
Luck 79/99
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sUmmer of U-words from Professor Mike – jUne 19; ANNUM: Wordle’s Birthday!I usually like to get S out of the way on the second guess, but SMOTE just did not feel right. EMO** seemed to be going nowhere, until I remembered there was a new word added. Happy Fifth to Wordle and those players who have been there from Jump Street!
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Great result for a bad starter word (which I know you didn’t pick)!
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Well, no…It’s the theme word from Prof. Mike’s group in honor of Wordle’s fifth birthday. One alternative word suggested was QUINT, so I decided to go with ANNUM.
There is a good article about Wordle in today’s NYT :
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/upshot/wordle-hard-mode.html
If you can’t access it, reply to my comment. I’m pretty sure my subscription lets me send links to others.
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I tried to access the article, but since I’m cheap, I don’t have a subscription to the NYT (or the games).
I must apologize, I thought your group was all starting from the same word.
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We usually do, the extra guess word came from another Wordler who often plays with our group word.
Try this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/upshot/wordle-hard-mode.html?smid=url-share
Try this link
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Same problem for me as before. I can’t read anything from nytimes.com unless I cough up money.
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I find this extremely annoying since NYT is always pestering me about using my benefits as a subscriber, blah, blah….
I will contact their Customer Service (probably on Monday because they seem to have a skeleton staff of newbies on weekends, let alone holiday weekends!)
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I have a login which I once used but forgot the password. Now, I can’t reset my password without having to give them money.
I’m probably better off, because if I had a games subscription, I would obsess over all the games especially Spelling Bee where I can’t set it down until I get Queen Bee.
I don’t have time for that given all the other games I already obsess over.
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Nice job!
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