The answer to Wordle #1850 (Monday, July 13, 2026) is STOUT.
Three hints for anyone still working through it.
Hint 1: The word can describe a person of sturdy, heavy build or something that is thick and strong.
Hint 2: It is also the name of a category of dark, full-bodied beer – the kind most associated with Ireland.
Hint 3: S-T-O-U-T. Starts with ST, ends with UT, and has the vowel O in the middle position.
Today’s Wordle answer:
STOUT
STOUT is a word with three distinct registers. As an adjective, it means physically solid and strong – a stout stick, a stout wall, a stout defence. Applied to a person, it carries the older sense of sturdy build, though in contemporary usage it is often read as a polite synonym for heavyset. In its noun form, stout names a category of dark beer brewed with roasted malt or barley, the style most famously identified with Guinness. The third register, now largely literary, is the sense of courage: a stout heart, stout resistance. All three meanings trace back through Middle English to the Old French estout, meaning bold or proud.
The difficulty in today’s puzzle comes from the -OUT ending. Solvers who confirm O-U-T early will find themselves cycling through a longer list of candidates than usual: CLOUT, SHOUT, TROUT, GROUT, SNOUT, SPOUT, TROUT. The ST- opening narrows the field efficiently once confirmed – STOUT is the only common ST- word ending in -UT – but players who open with openers that do not surface the S and T in the first two turns may spend additional guesses in the broader -OUT family before landing here.
No repeated letters and a clean five-letter structure make this a fairer puzzle than Sunday’s CLACK, which hid a repeated C in positions one and four. STOUT rewards methodical elimination. Players who use vowel-forward openers will confirm O and U early and then need to close in on the ST- consonant pair from the front. Most solvers should land on it in three or four guesses.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer was CLACK (puzzle #1849, July 12, 2026). Also published yesterday: the NYT Spelling Bee answers for July 12, 2026, which featured three pangrams – AWAKENING, WEAKENING, and WAKENING.
