How to Solve Wordle #1813 (June 6, 2026): Step-by-Step

Most “Wordle answer” pages just hand you the letters. This one walks through how a careful solver actually gets there. The answer is at the bottom — but the more useful thing is the reasoning, because tomorrow’s puzzle will need the same moves.

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Setup: what a good solver does on guess #1

The mistake most players make is picking a word on guess #1 that they hope is the answer. With 5,757 possible Wordle solutions, the odds are bad. The right move is to pick a word that maximizes information, even if you know it cannot be the answer.

A canonical opener: SLATE. It tests S, L, A, T, E — the five most common letters in English. You learn a lot in one move.

Guess 1: SLATE → ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜

Every tile comes back gray. That feels bad — no greens, no yellows. But this is one of the most informative outcomes possible. In one guess we have ruled out five high-frequency letters: S, L, A, T, E. The answer contains none of them.

That eliminates a huge chunk of the dictionary in one stroke. Words like CRANE, SLATE, RAISE, ARISE, STARE, LEAST — all dead. Any candidate left has to be built entirely from the less common letters.

Method 1 — open for information, not for a win. A blank board is exactly when 5 grays is acceptable. You traded one guess for the right to ignore a third of the dictionary.

Guess 2: choosing a word that doesn’t waste any tile

The temptation now is to keep testing one letter at a time. Bad move. With five tiles per guess, the right approach is to find a word that:

Reuses none of S, L, A, T, E (no tile spent on a known dead letter).
Tests five new high-frequency letters that survive elimination.
Avoids double letters (so every tile teaches you something).

Good candidates: CHIRP, MOUND, BRICK. I’ll commit to CHIRP — it tests C, H, I, R, P, all unrelated to the grays, and includes the consonant cluster that often appears in five-letter Wordle answers.

Guess 2: CHIRP → ⬜ 🟨 ⬜ 🟨 🟨

This is the kind of feedback solvers dream about. Three yellows in one move:

H is in the word, but not at position 2.
R is in the word, but not at position 4.
P is in the word, but not at position 5.
C and I are gone.

Combined with what we already knew, the answer:

contains H, R, P
contains none of S, L, A, T, E, C, I
has 2 unknown slots from the remaining letters (mostly B, D, F, G, K, M, N, O, U, W, Y)
has H somewhere other than slot 2, R somewhere other than slot 4, P somewhere other than slot 5

Method 2 — when you get multiple yellows, don’t panic about position yet. Yellows tell you which letters before they tell you where. The positional puzzle is almost always solvable once you know the letter set.

Guess 3: a tiny candidate set

Now think about which English five-letter words contain H, R, and P and none of the seven eliminated letters. Run through it mentally:

HARPS, HARPY, SHARP — all contain A. Dead.
THORP, FORTH — contain T. Dead.
HORDE, PHONE — contain E. Dead.
PHONY — has H at slot 2, which we ruled out.

The shortlist collapses fast. The candidate that survives is one where M and O fill the remaining two slots:

MORPH — M-O-R-P-H. Check the constraints: H at slot 5 (not slot 2 ✓), R at slot 3 (not slot 4 ✓), P at slot 4 (not slot 5 ✓). Every requirement is satisfied. It fits.

Method 3 — when the candidate set collapses to one, commit. A player who hesitates here and spends guess #3 on a “safer” elimination word is throwing away a free win. If the constraints fit exactly one word, guess that word.

Today’s Wordle Answer (June 6, 2026)

The answer to Wordle #1813 for June 6, 2026 is:

MORPH

Solved in three guesses: SLATE → CHIRP → MORPH.

What today’s puzzle teaches you

Three moves you can carry into tomorrow’s Wordle:

An all-gray guess is not a wasted guess. SLATE returning five grays eliminated five high-frequency letters at once — that’s data, not failure.
Pick guess #2 to share zero letters with guess #1’s grays. Most beginners reuse letters out of habit. A disciplined second word turns a blank first guess into a three-yellow second guess.
Trust the constraint count. When you have 3 confirmed letters and 7 eliminated letters, the surviving candidate set is usually 1–3 words. Commit to the most plausible — don’t burn guess #3 disambiguating between near-impossible alternatives.

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