The Contexto answer for Tuesday, July 14, 2026 (game #1395) is EVIDENCE.
Three hints before the answer for players still working through the word list.
Hint 1: The word is closely associated with courtrooms and legal proceedings.
Hint 2: Detectives gather it before naming a suspect.
Hint 3: It can be physical, circumstantial, or anecdotal – and it appears in both legal and scientific contexts.
Today’s Contexto answer:
EVIDENCE
EVIDENCE sits at the intersection of law, science, and argument – three semantic fields that each use the word in slightly different ways but converge on the same core meaning: information that supports or refutes a claim. In Contexto’s model, words are ranked by their semantic proximity to the target in a large language model’s embedding space, which means that the words appearing closest to EVIDENCE in the rankings will be drawn from across all three fields simultaneously.
In legal contexts, the words circling closest are likely to include PROOF, TESTIMONY, WITNESS, and EXHIBIT – the courtroom vocabulary that sits immediately adjacent to EVIDENCE in trained language models. CLUE and TRACE belong to the investigative register: words that precede evidence, the raw material before it is formalised. VERDICT and CONVICTION will appear further out – downstream of evidence in the legal process rather than synonymous with it.
In the scientific register, DATA and FINDINGS pull toward EVIDENCE without quite overlapping it. A data point is not evidence until it is interpreted in the context of a hypothesis; EVIDENCE implies that the interpretive step has already been taken. Players who approached today’s game from a scientific angle may have stalled in the DATA-FINDINGS cluster before the legal frame pulled the target into focus.
EVIDENCE itself is an eight-letter word with no repeated letters, a Latin root (evidentia, from videre, to see), and one of the highest frequency scores of any abstract noun in English. Its ubiquity across domains is precisely what makes it a strong Contexto target: the semantic neighbourhood is crowded and multi-directional, which generates a wide spread of ranked guesses before the centre resolves.
Yesterday’s Contexto answer was LARD (game #1394). Today’s Wordle #1851 answer is STEAK. Contexto resets at midnight ET.
