NEW YORK – The answer to Wordle #1899 for Monday, August 31, 2026 is MOUND.
If you are still working through it and want hints before the reveal, they are numbered below. The answer appears after them.
Hint 1: The word starts with the letter M.
Hint 2: There are exactly two vowels in the word, and they appear side by side.
Hint 3: One context for this word is a baseball diamond. Another is a graveyard.
Hint 4: Groundskeepers at major-league stadiums spend a lot of time maintaining this feature.
Hint 5: It can also describe a large pile of earth, dirt, or debris.
The answer is
MOUND.
In baseball, the pitcher’s mound is the raised section of dirt at the centre of the diamond, set 60 feet and 6 inches from home plate. Outside the stadium, the word has been in use since at least the early 17th century. Etymologists trace it through Middle Dutch or Low German roots meaning a hedge or boundary, though the exact origin is disputed. By the 18th century it had settled into its modern meaning: a rounded heap of earth or a burial site raised above the surrounding ground. The New York Times has published a new Wordle puzzle every day since acquiring the game from creator Josh Wardle in January 2022.
The grid difficulty for #1899 is moderate-to-hard. The O-U vowel pair in positions 2 and 3 is the main obstacle. Players who open with vowel-light starters like CRANE or BRICK may use two full guesses before they locate both vowels, leaving limited margin for the consonants M, N, and D. The most efficient path: open with a word containing OU (CLOUD, FOUND, SHOUT, or COULD all work), which places the vowel cluster in one move and leaves positions 1, 4, and 5 open for consonant discovery.
Players who opened with MOUSE or MOUNT were within one letter of the answer and likely solved it in three or four guesses. MOULD was a near-trap – same opening, same vowels, one letter off – so players who tried it first had to realise the D was wrong before landing on MOUND.
Today’s puzzle rewards solvers who think in vowel clusters rather than individual letters. Adjacent vowels (OU, OA, AI, EA) appear in roughly one in eight Wordle answers, making them a high-value target for second-guess strategy when the opener doesn’t immediately clarify the vowel structure. Yesterday’s Wordle #1898 answer was INTEL, which also carried an uncommon vowel arrangement and caught many players off-guard.
Wordle #1900 resets at midnight Eastern Time on Tuesday, September 1, 2026.
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