The answer to today’s Contexto #1416 (August 4, 2026) is ROW.
Contexto is a daily word puzzle that challenges players to find a secret word using semantic similarity. Every guess you type returns a rank showing how close your word is in meaning to the answer – rank 1 is the target itself, and ranks in the hundreds mean you are far off. The game resets at midnight, with puzzle #1417 launching tonight for August 5.
Contexto #1416 Hints for August 4, 2026
Here are four hints if you want to solve today’s puzzle before seeing the answer.
Hint 1: The word has just three letters.
Hint 2: It can describe an orderly line of things – seats in a cinema, crops in a field, or houses along a street.
Hint 3: In British English, it also means a noisy argument or disturbance – the kind that keeps the neighbours awake.
Hint 4: You might do this with a boat, pulling oars through the water in long, rhythmic strokes.
Contexto Answer for August 4, 2026 – #1416
Today’s Contexto answer is ROW.
ROW is one of those compact English words that earns its place in a semantic puzzle precisely because it pulls in so many different directions at once. As a noun, a row is an orderly arrangement – neat rows of corn in a summer field, rows of spectators filling a stadium before kickoff, the front row of a classroom. The tidiness implied is almost architectural: parallel, repetitive, structured. Players who circled the concept of linear arrangement – guessing line, column, aisle, or rank – would have closed in from one side.
But ROW carries a second, louder life entirely. In British English, a row is a blazing argument – the kind that rattles windows and sends voices through the walls. Politicians have rows over budgets. Couples have rows that end with slammed doors. It is the same three letters, same spelling, different pronunciation (rhymes with “cow,” not “low”), and an entirely different semantic neighbourhood. That ambiguity is exactly the kind of trap Contexto sets: players chasing “fight” or “dispute” might stumble toward the answer from an angle they did not expect.
ROW also works as a verb – to row a boat, working oars in rhythmic strokes against the current. The Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, one of sport’s oldest annual contests, turns entirely on rowing. That third meaning pulls the word into another cluster of semantically close terms: oar, stroke, scull, crew, regatta. Contexto #1416 sits at the crossroads of all three, which is what makes the puzzle satisfying in retrospect. The answer is simple, common, and hiding in plain sight across three distinct contexts at once.
Yesterday’s Contexto #1415 answer was OFFICER, and puzzle #1414 on August 2 brought STY as the answer. Contexto #1417 resets at midnight tonight.
