New Delhi, Aug. 25 -- The Contexto answer today, for Tuesday, August 25, 2026, is APE. That solves Contexto #1437.

Contexto scores a guess on meaning rather than spelling. Every word you play is placed by how near it sits to the answer in a language model's map of usage, which is why a three-letter word can take fifty guesses and a seven-letter one can fall on the second.

Contexto Hints Today, August 25, 2026 (#1437)

It is a noun and a verb, and the verb came from the noun.

As a noun it is an animal. As a verb it is what you do when you copy someone else's manner.

Three letters. Contexto rarely goes this short.

The family includes gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans and gibbons, and it includes you.

It excludes one very similar anima...