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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 2 vowels (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: An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
Bonus hint: A riddle
I rise without growing, built by many hands to stand guard on the land.
Hint 4: First letter
The word starts with M.
Hint 5: Second letter
The second letter is O.
Hint 6: Last letter
The word ends with D.
Hint 7: Letter pattern
M _ U _ D
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The answer to Wordle #1899 is MOUND.
About this puzzle
- Puzzle number: 1899
- Edited by Tracy Bennett
- This is the first time this word has been the answer.
Yesterday's answer (August 30, 2026)
INTEL. Yesterday's hints
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Wordle deep dive
More about today's puzzle. Everything in this section can include the answer.
Word profile: MOUND
- Part of speech: noun, verb
- Syllables: 1
- How common: about 4.35 uses per million words of English, so it is an uncommon word.
Meanings
- An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
- A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
- (baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
- a large amount of something.
- (US, vulgar, slang) The mons veneris.
Similar words: pile, heap, pitcher, hill, hummock, hammock, hillock, knoll
Rhymes: profound, expound, resound, renowned, sound, confound, ground, rebound
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 1876 past answers
- 731 have the same vowels and repeat pattern (hint 1)
- 38 also start with M (hint 4)
- 0 also end with D (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.
- DEMON (July 8, 2026)
- WOUND (October 12, 2025)
- MOUTH (September 23, 2025)
- NOMAD (August 12, 2025)
- WOULD (December 14, 2023)
- YOUNG (December 5, 2023)
- DONUT (July 7, 2023)
- MOUSE (May 29, 2023)
- HOUND (April 18, 2023)
- SOUND (February 14, 2023)
How common these letters are in Wordle
- M appears in 13% of past answers
- O appears in 30% of past answers
- U appears in 20% of past answers
- N appears in 24% of past answers
- D appears in 16% of past answers
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