The Wordle answer today, Saturday, August 22, 2026, is PRAWN, and puzzle #1890 is the kind that can leave you four tiles green and still guessing.
If you would rather solve it yourself, the hints come first and the answer follows below.
Wordle Hints Today, August 22, 2026 (Puzzle #1890)
- Five letters, one vowel, no repeats.
- It starts with P and ends with N.
- One of the letters is among the least used in English, and it sits fourth.
- Change only the first letter and you get two other perfectly ordinary words.
- It is a shellfish, larger than a shrimp in most kitchens that bother to distinguish them.
What Is the Wordle Answer Today? NYT Wordle #1890 for August 22
The Wordle answer today for puzzle #1890 is PRAWN.
Why Four Green Tiles Are Not Enough Today
The cruelty of this puzzle is at the front, not the back.
Get to the pattern that ends in RAWN and you have four letters locked. You also have three real English words still standing: DRAWN, BRAWN and PRAWN. Two of them are commoner than the answer. DRAWN turns up constantly, as a past participle and as a description of a tired face. BRAWN is ordinary enough. PRAWN is the one a solver reaches for last, and if the remaining guess count is one, this is a coin flip with three sides.
That is worth checking against the tile feedback, because it is easy to arrive there without noticing. Guess DRAWN and you get four greens and a single grey. Guess BRAWN and you get exactly the same, four greens and a grey. The board looks like triumph and delivers nothing except the news that the first letter is something else.
The opening word matters again, as it has all week, but this time in the reverse direction. CRANE returns two greens and a yellow here, locking R in second place and A in third and confirming an N somewhere else, which is an unusually productive start. SLATE gives one green and four greys. ADIEU and AUDIO each surrender a single yellow A and nothing more.
W is the letter doing the hiding. It is one of the least frequent consonants in English, and it almost never appears in the fourth position, so solvers running through consonant candidates after the vowel is settled tend to try T, S, R and L long before they try W. SPAWN gets you close, three greens and a yellow, and still leaves the same first-letter problem.
Three days, three different ways for a habit to fail. MURKY on Thursday gave the standard openers almost nothing back. Friday’s TRACE gave them everything and arranged none of it. Today the openers work, carry you most of the way, and abandon you one letter short.
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