Puzzle #1850
Wordle Answer for July 13, 2026
STOUT (noun) — A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain.
Difficulty: Challenging · players averaged 4.7 guesses
The day's hints, in case you're catching up
Hint 1Meaning
It means: A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain.
Hint 2Vowels
It contains 2 vowels (O, U).
Hint 3Letters
It has a repeated letter — the same letter appears at least twice.
Hint 4First letter
It starts with the letter S.
Hint 5Last letter
It ends with the letter T.
Why this word played the way it did
STOUT carries two vowels (O and U), a classic Wordle shape that most vowel-first openers surface quickly. The letter T appears twice, and double letters are the single most common reason a streak dies — Wordle gives no special signal that a letter repeats.
The real danger came from near-neighbors: SPOUT and SNOUT differ by just one letter, and players who locked in four greens early often had to burn a guess — or two — separating them. The counter-move is to guess a word that tests the differing letters at once rather than trying each candidate in turn.
Community data puts puzzle #1850 at 4.7 guesses on average, which we rate challenging. Anything under four guesses on this one was a strong result.
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