Wordle Hint June 28, 2026: Today's Answer Is EMCEE

Wordle No. 1,835, published by the New York Times on Sunday, June 28, 2026, has the answer EMCEE, a five-letter noun and verb meaning a master of ceremonies or event host. WordleBot, the official NYT Wordle game's built-in analysis tool, was reportedly experiencing an outage around publication time, so a confirmed average-guess figure wasn't available from NYT sources at the time of writing. One veteran Wordle columnist who tracks WordleBot daily estimated the puzzle was likely playing in the "4.4-range" based on his own solve and the difficulty of similar triple-letter words, in his TechRadar Wordle column for June 28.

If you are still working through the puzzle, the section below starts with broad clues and ends with the full answer. Jump to whichever stage you need.

Hints for Wordle No. 1,835, June 28, 2026

Hint 1, Meaning: The answer describes a person who hosts, introduces acts, and keeps a show or ceremony moving. Think of a stage, an awards night, or a live event.

Hint 2, Part of speech: The word works as both a noun and a verb. You can call someone an EMCEE, and you can say someone will EMCEE an event.

Hint 3, First letter: The answer begins with E.

Hint 4, Last letter: The answer ends with E.

Hint 5, Repeated letters: One letter appears three times in a single five-letter word. If your guesses keep turning green and yellow on the same tile, that is the reason.

Hint 6, Vowels: The answer has three vowel positions, but every one of them is the same vowel. There is only one distinct vowel across the whole word.

Hint 7, Full answer: The answer is EMCEE.

What Does EMCEE Mean?

EMCEE is the phonetic spelling of the initials M.C., which stand for "master of ceremonies." Merriam-Webster records it as both a noun, someone who hosts a formal event, and a transitive verb, as in hosting or running a show. The Online Etymology Dictionary traces the noun to early 20th-century American English, when the spoken letters M and C became the written word emcee.

The word also carries a secondary meaning in hip-hop culture, referring to a rapper or performer. That is a verified sense in Merriam-Webster, but it is not the primary clue in the June 28 puzzle context.

The letter breakdown for EMCEE is: E at position 1, M at position 2, C at position 3, E at position 4, and E at position 5. Two distinct consonants, M and C, appear once each. The vowel E appears three times, one of only a small number of Wordle answers where a single letter repeats three times in five letters.

How Difficult Was Puzzle No. 1,835?

This was a tricky Sunday puzzle by most accounts. Several outlets independently flagged the triple-E pattern as the main trap: a standard opener that includes one or two E's can produce green and yellow tiles pointing to E without revealing that it repeats a third time. Players who assumed a single or double E, rather than testing for a third occurrence, likely needed extra guesses to nail down the correct placement.

Saturday's answer, Wordle No. 1,834 on June 27, was SCOOP. Friday's answer, No. 1,833 on June 26, was ACUTE. Prior to that, the sequence ran UNITY (June 25), with QUEER (June 24) and CURRY (June 23), according to the TechRadar past Wordle answers archive.

For a deeper look at how another puzzle with an unusual letter pattern played out recently, see our hint guide for Wordle puzzle No. 1,823, where the answer was AMAZE.

How NYT Wordle Works

The official NYT Wordle gives every player a single five-letter target word and six attempts to identify it. After each guess, tiles change colour: green for a correct letter in the correct position, yellow for a correct letter in the wrong position, and grey for a letter not in the answer.

The same answer is used by every player on the same calendar day. The official Discord Wordle FAQ confirms that the Discord version of Wordle, licensed from the NYT, shares the same daily answer as the main NYT site and app.

The New York Times acquired Wordle from its creator, software engineer Josh Wardle, on January 31, 2022, for an undisclosed price described as being in the low seven figures, as Reuters reported. Wardle had originally built the game for his partner, Palak Shah, before a public release in 2021 made it a global daily habit, as TIME documented in a direct interview with Wardle.

NYT Games launched an official subscriber puzzle archive in May 2024, starting with more than 1,000 past Wordle entries, according to TechCrunch. The current NYT Games app listing describes access to more than 10,000 past puzzles, a figure that spans several games in the NYT Games portfolio, including Connections, Strands, and Spelling Bee, rather than Wordle entries alone.

The next Wordle, No. 1,836, will be available Monday, June 29, 2026, at midnight local time.