The Wordle answer today, Monday, August 3, 2026, is REPLY. That is puzzle number 1871.
Today’s Wordle is a five-letter word with no repeated letters. Three hints appear below for anyone still working through the grid, followed by the full answer and a breakdown of the word.
Wordle Hints for Today – August 3, 2026
Hint 1: The word starts with the letters R and E. It opens with one of the most common two-letter prefixes in the English language.
Hint 2: The word ends in Y. There are no repeated letters anywhere in the five-letter sequence.
Hint 3: You do this when you answer a message, an email, or a question. It is a very common everyday verb.
Wordle Answer Today – #1871
Today’s Wordle answer is REPLY.
REPLY means to say or write something in response to a statement, question, or message. As a noun, it names the response itself. The word entered English in the late 14th century from Old French replier, meaning to fold back or turn back, from Latin replicare – re- (back) plus plicare (to fold). The original Latin sense was physical: folding a document back to respond to it, the papyrus-age equivalent of hitting reply on an email thread. By the 15th century, the figurative sense of responding to speech or writing had displaced the literal folding meaning entirely in English.
In letter structure, R-E-P-L-Y is clean and well-distributed: five distinct letters across two consonant pairs (R-P and P-L) separated by the vowel E, closing on Y. No repeated letters means every confirmed green or yellow tile is immediately useful on a different board. The RE- opening is one of the most frequent two-letter combinations in five-letter guessing pools, which means most solvers will confirm both R and E within the first two guesses. The trap in today’s puzzle is what comes after: solvers who lock in RE- and scan naturally for REACT, REALM, REBUS, REPAY, or REPEL will burn guesses on plausible RE- words before the P-L-Y ending sequence becomes apparent.
REPAY and REPEL are the two likeliest wrong turns. REPAY (R-E-P-A-Y) shares four letters with REPLY – R, E, P, and Y – and differs only in position four, where A (REPAY) gives way to L (REPLY). A solver who plays REPAY and gets green-green-green-yellow-green is very close but needs one more elimination round. RELAY (R-E-L-A-Y) is a similar near-miss with a different pivot in position three. Both are common enough words to appear early in a guessing sequence, making REPLY a puzzle that rewards methodical letter placement over vocabulary recognition.
Strong opening words for today would have been any five-letter word placing R and E in positions one and two while also hitting common consonants P, L, and Y elsewhere. No single common opener covers all five, but CRANE, TRACE, or AROSE would confirm the R and E positions quickly, narrowing the field to the RE- cluster. From there, a second guess targeting P, L, and Y – words like PLOYS, PLYTH is not a word, PULPY – resolves the structure with a guess to spare.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer was PENAL for August 2, 2026 (#1870). The answer before that was SLUSH for August 1, 2026 (#1869).
