Wordle July 27, 2026: Hints & Answer (#1,864)
Recap
The answer to Wordle #1864 is POSER. Solvers had a chance to figure out a common noun. The puzzle was solved with a good mix of guessing and deduction.
Wordle hints, one rung at a time
Five rungs, softest first. The recap above already named the word, so this ladder is here for anyone replaying the puzzle fresh rather than as a spoiler shield.
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Hint 1: The shape of the word
No letters of the answer are spelled out.
The word has a mix of common letters, with one letter appearing twice. It ends in a fairly common sequence.
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Hint 2: How the vowels sat
There are two vowels in the word, and they appear in the middle and towards the end.
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Hint 3: Word facts
Counted off the answer.
- Length
- 5 letters
- Different letters
- 5 of 5
- Repeats
- None — all five are different
- Vowels (A E I O U)
- 2
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Hint 4: What the word means
A definition, without the word in it.
A person who poses or pretends to be something they are not, often in a way that is insincere or artificial.
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Hint 5: The first letter
The answer to that puzzle
Spoiler below. It stays folded until you open it.
Wordle #1,864 · 5 letters
POSER
A person who poses or pretends to be something they are not, often in a way that is insincere or artificial.
This puzzle by the numbers
- Puzzle
- #1,864 · Monday, July 27, 2026
- Length
- 5 letters
- Different letters
- 5
- Vowels
- 2
- Guesses allowed
- 6
About Wordle #1,864
The number above is the count of days since Wordle launched on 19 June 2021, which is what the share grid prints — not the internal id the puzzle data carries. TodayHint reads it off the stored row for Monday, July 27, 2026 rather than adding one to the previous page, so a date we never fetched can never shift every number that follows it.
Everyone who played this puzzle saw the same word, wherever they were: the board rolls over at local midnight, so a solver in Auckland met it well before one in Los Angeles, but never a different answer. Six guesses, no timer, and the only feedback is the colours — green for a letter in the right place, yellow for a letter in the wrong one, grey for a letter that is not there at all. The rungs above rebuild that information in order, so this page can still be played as a puzzle rather than read as a result.
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