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Wordle July 28, 2026: Hints & Answer (#1,865)

edited by Tracy Bennett.

Recap

The answer was SONAR. July 28th's puzzle was solved with ease by many, as the word is quite specific and not commonly used in everyday conversation, but familiar to those in relevant fields.

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.

  1. The shape of the word

    No letters of the answer are spelled out.

    The word has a distinct sequence with a single repeated letter, and ends in a way that's commonly seen in English words.

  2. How the vowels sat

    There are two vowels in the answer, and they appear in the middle and towards the end.

  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
  4. What the word means

    A definition, without the word in it.

    A system using sound waves to detect and locate objects underwater, often used in navigation and research.

  5. The first letter

    The recap above already named the word; this rung is for a replay.

    Starts with
    S
    Jump to the answer

The answer to that puzzle

Spoiler below. It stays folded until you open it.

  • Wordle #1,865 · 5 letters

    SONAR

    A system using sound waves to detect and locate objects underwater, often used in navigation and research.

This puzzle by the numbers

Puzzle
#1,865 · Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Length
5 letters
Different letters
5
Vowels
2
Guesses allowed
6

About Wordle #1,865

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 Tuesday, July 28, 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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