How to Solve Wordle #1808 (June 1, 2026) — Step-by-Step Walkthrough

Most Wordle “answer” pages dump three hints and the solution, which is fine if you only want the word. This page is for the other half of the audience: players who want to see how a solver actually gets there. Below is a complete reasoning trace for puzzle #1808 (June 1, 2026) — every guess, every tile color, and the choice that produced the next move. By the time you reach the answer, you’ll also have a small toolkit you can apply to tomorrow’s board.

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Guess 1 — SLATE: setting the board

I almost always open with SLATE. It tests two of the most common consonants in English (S, T) plus two of the three “free” vowels (A, E) and the very common L. Five high-frequency letters in one shot — even a board full of gray tiles tells you a lot, because each gray rules out one common letter.

For #1808, SLATE produces:

S  L  A  T  E
⬜  🟨  ⬜  ⬜  ⬜

Four grays and a single yellow. Don’t read that as a bad result — it’s actually a dense one:

S, A, T, E are out. Two very common vowels (A, E) just disappeared, which dramatically narrows what the word can look like. If A and E aren’t here, the live vowels are almost certainly I, O, or U (Y appears in only a handful of five-letter words). That alone collapses thousands of candidates.
L is in the word, but not in position 2. L is now confirmed present. It can live at position 1, 3, 4, or 5.

That’s the first lesson worth taking with you: a heavy-gray board is information, not failure. Four grays from a good opener is usually better than two yellows from a guess you “hoped” might be right.

Guess 2 — CHIRP: avoid the trap of re-testing what you know

Beginners often re-place the L from SLATE on the next guess. Tempting — but inefficient. We already know L exists; what we don’t know is which of A, E’s vowel replacements is live, and which of the remaining consonants are in play. A second guess should test new letters.

I pick CHIRP for guess 2. It shares zero letters with SLATE, and it tests:

C and H — two of the most common consonants left.
I — the highest-probability remaining vowel.
R and P — both high-frequency.

CHIRP against #1808:

C  H  I  R  P
🟩  🟩  🟩  ⬜  ⬜

Three greens in a row. The word starts with CHI–, and R/P are out. This is where the puzzle suddenly collapses.

We now know:

The pattern is C H I _ _
The remaining slots (4 and 5) must include L (from SLATE’s yellow), since L wasn’t placed yet.
A, E, R, P, S, T are all excluded.

How many real five-letter words match C H I _ _ with an L in slot 4 or 5? It’s a short list:

CHILD — possible (D is still live).
CHILE — eliminated (E is gray).
CHILL — possible (double L, both at the end).
CHILI — possible (L at slot 4, I repeats at slot 5).

Three real candidates: CHILD, CHILL, CHILI. The “contains a repeated letter” cue (a soft hint many trackers surface for #1808) tilts the field toward CHILL or CHILI over CHILD.

Guess 3 — picking between CHILD, CHILL, and CHILI

This is the moment where the reasoning matters more than the vocabulary. With three candidates left and three guesses remaining, you have margin — but the order you try them in still matters, because two of the three share four letters with each other.

CHILD differs by one letter (D vs L/I in slot 5 and L vs L in slot 4) — wait, CHILD is C H I L D, CHILL is C H I L L, CHILI is C H I L I. All three share C-H-I-L in slots 1–4. They only differ at slot 5: D, L, or I.

So my third guess only needs to resolve slot 5. I have three candidates for that one position. I’ll pick the one whose slot-5 letter I most want to test, and let the feedback decide the rest:

If I guess CHILI and it’s right → 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩, solved.
If CHILI is wrong, slot 5 returns ⬜ for I. That means the answer ends in L (CHILL) or D (CHILD). One more guess resolves it.

Why I lean CHILI for the third guess: the repeated-letter hint above pushes against CHILD (no repeat) and slightly toward CHILI (repeat of I at slots 3 and 5) or CHILL (repeat of L at slots 4 and 5). Between CHILI and CHILL, CHILI puts the more common vowel I in the final slot, and the I-then-I pattern (vowel cap on both ends) shows up in legitimate Wordle answers more often than ending in a doubled consonant L.

I play CHILI.

C  H  I  L  I
🟩  🟩  🟩  🟩  🟩

Solved in 3 guesses.

Today’s Wordle Answer

The answer to Wordle #1808 for June 1, 2026 is:

CHILI

What this board teaches you for tomorrow

Three transferable lessons from puzzle #1808 that work on any future board:

Heavy-gray openers are information dense. SLATE gave us four grays and one yellow, and that single yellow plus the four eliminations was enough to collapse the vowel field on its own. Don’t restart with a “safer” word — let the grays do work.
Don’t re-test letters you’ve already confirmed. Once L is yellow, your next guess shouldn’t pivot around L — it should expand into letters you haven’t seen yet. CHIRP introduced five fresh letters, which is what turned the second guess into three greens.
When the candidates collapse to a small set that only differs in one slot, pick the guess that resolves that slot. With CHILD / CHILL / CHILI all sharing C-H-I-L, the third guess was really about choosing what letter to test at slot 5. Playing any of the three would have either won or eliminated two candidates at once — a perfect endgame move.

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