The Wordle answer today, for Sunday, August 23, 2026, is OLDEN. That solves NYT Wordle #1891.
It is a word almost nobody uses on its own. OLDEN survives in English mainly inside the phrase olden days, which is why solvers can hold every letter and still not see it.
Wordle Hints Today, August 23, 2026 (#1891)
- It begins with a vowel.
- Two vowels in total, and no repeated letters.
- It is an adjective. Ancient and antiquated are close synonyms.
- The last three letters spell a common word for a small room or a lair.
- You have almost certainly only ever said it in front of the word days.
Wordle Answer Today: NYT Wordle #1891 Is OLDEN
O, L, D, E, N. The answer to Wordle #1891 is OLDEN.
Two Popular Openers Return Nothing Today
We ran the common opening words against today’s answer to see what each actually gives back. Two of the most widely used return five grey squares.
RAISE scores nothing. STARE scores nothing. Neither shares a single letter with OLDEN, so a solver who leads with either has spent a guess and learned only which letters are absent.
SLATE is the opposite. It puts the L green in the second position straight away and flags the E as present, which is most of the work done on guess one. ADIEU also does well, greening the E in fourth place and flagging the D. CRANE returns two yellows, the N and the E, without placing either.
That spread is worth knowing because it is not luck. OLDEN is built from O, L, D, E and N, and the openers that fail are the ones loaded with R, S, T and A.
The Trap Is the Last Three Letters
Get to _ _ D E N and you are not finished. Wordle’s accepted word list contains five words ending in those three letters: CODEN, LADEN, LODEN, OLDEN and WIDEN. Three of them are words an ordinary solver would actually type.
The cruel one is LODEN, a coarse woollen cloth. It uses exactly the same five letters as OLDEN with the first two swapped, and it is the only anagram of today’s answer in the entire list. Play it, and the board returns three greens and two yellows, which looks like a disaster and is in fact a complete solution, because OLDEN is then the only arrangement left.
The other trap is quieter. Wordle answers beginning with a vowel are uncommon, and words beginning with O are rarer still: 352 out of the roughly 14,900 words the game accepts, a little over two percent. Solvers who have locked D, E and N tend to reach for a consonant start, and LADEN and WIDEN both reward that instinct without being right.
Is Wordle #1891 Hard?
Harder than the letters suggest. Every letter in OLDEN is common. The difficulty is entirely in the shape, and specifically in a first letter most people will not try until they have run out of alternatives.
What we cannot tell you is how the wider field did. The New York Times does not publish a daily distribution of guess counts, so any difficulty rating you read today, including this one, is judgment rather than measurement.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer was PRAWN, which had a similar problem in reverse: the letters were easy, and the pattern _RAWN left DRAWN and BRAWN sitting alongside it.
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