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Very hard Difficulty: very hard, because it is not an everyday word and it uses some less common letters.
Hint 1: Vowels and repeated letters
The word has 1 vowel (A, E, I, O or U). No letter repeats.
Hint 2: What kind of word it is
It is usually used as a noun or a verb.
Hint 3: What it means
A dictionary meaning, with the word hidden: A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
Bonus hint: A riddle
Tiny armored dancer from the sea, often served chilled beside lemon.
Hint 4: First letter
The word starts with P.
Hint 5: Second letter
The second letter is R.
Hint 6: Last letter
The word ends with N.
Hint 7: Letter pattern
P _ A _ N
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The answer to Wordle #1890 is PRAWN.
About this puzzle
- Puzzle number: 1890
- Edited by Tracy Bennett
- This is the first time this word has been the answer.
Yesterday's answer (August 21, 2026)
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Wordle deep dive
More about today's puzzle. Everything in this section can include the answer.
Word profile: PRAWN
- Part of speech: noun, verb
- Syllables: 1
- How common: about 0.28 uses per million words of English, so it is an uncommon word.
Meanings
- A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
- (Commonwealth) A crustacean, sometimes confused with shrimp.
- (intransitive) To fish for prawns.
- (Australia, slang) A fool, an idiot.
- (Australia, colloquial, derogatory) Synonym of butterface: A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.
Similar words: shrimp
Rhymes: paragon, liaison, automaton, fawn, lexicon, phenomenon, drawn, denouement
How would your starting word have done?
Here is the first-row result today's answer would give for some popular opening words.
How much each hint narrows it down
Using the list of past Wordle answers as the word list, this is how many words would still fit after each hint.
- All 1868 past answers
- 277 have the same vowels and repeat pattern (hint 1)
- 18 also start with P (hint 4)
- 0 also end with N (hint 5)
- 0 also match the letter pattern (hint 6)
Past answers that look like today's
Earlier answers that share at least three letters in the same spots, or four of the same letters.
- PLAIN (June 27, 2025)
- PRANK (June 17, 2025)
- PREEN (June 2, 2025)
- GROWN (May 17, 2025)
- CRAWL (January 10, 2025)
- GRAIN (December 27, 2024)
- BRAWN (December 22, 2024)
- BROWN (November 25, 2024)
- FROWN (October 25, 2024)
- BRAIN (September 28, 2024)
How common these letters are in Wordle
- P appears in 14% of past answers
- R appears in 36% of past answers
- A appears in 40% of past answers
- W appears in 8% of past answers
- N appears in 24% of past answers
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