Today's NYT Wordle lands with puzzle #1852, and it brings an uncommon, compact challenge that rewards flexibility more than routine pattern matching. Whether you are protecting a streak or trying your first grid, welcome in.
The Basics (For New Players)
Wordle gives you six attempts to crack a five-letter word. After each guess, tiles change color: green means right letter, right spot; yellow signals right letter, wrong position; gray indicates the letter isn't in the word at all. One puzzle per day, shared by millions worldwide. That's the beauty of it.
Created by Josh Wardle in 2021 and now part of The New York Times Games family, Wordle has become a daily ritual for word lovers everywhere. Today's puzzle #1852 awaits.
The Letter Rundown
Today's puzzle breaks down like this:
Vowel Count: 1 vowel(s)
Consonant Count: 4 consonant(s)
Repeated Letters: No repeats today
Letter Rarity: Mostly common letters, with P the least frequent of the set
The Elimination Game (Progressive Hints)
We've designed these hints to reveal just enough at each level. Stop when you've got it figured out.
Level 1 (The Vibe): Think of a brisk reaction that brushes something aside.
Level 2 (The Category): It is an interjection used to express impatience, disbelief, or contempt.
Level 3 (The Boundaries): Starts with P, ends with W.
Level 4 (The Structure): All five letters are different, and the vowel sits in position 4.
Level 5 (The Giveaway): It is the dismissive sound you make when an idea seems too absurd to deserve serious consideration.
Quick-Reference Clues
First Letter: P
Last Letter: W
Vowels Present: A
Double Letters: No
Rhymes With: MACAW, FORESAW, WITHDRAW
Today's Wordle Answer
Final warning: The answer is directly below. Scroll only if you're ready.
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The answer to Wordle #1852 is: PSHAW
Word DNA: Breaking Down Today's Answer
PSHAW is an interjection expressing contempt, impatience, or disbelief. Someone might use it to reject a flimsy excuse or wave away an exaggerated worry.
Origins: PSHAW is an imitative English exclamation documented from the seventeenth century, shaped to sound like a sharp burst of dismissal rather than borrowed from a word with a literal root meaning.
Word Family: pshaws, pshawed, pshawing
Fun Fact: PSHAW can also function as a verb, so a person can pshaw at an idea. Its unusual opening sound makes the word expressive in speech and exceptionally easy to overlook in Wordle.
The Streak Saver Rating
This earns a 4.5 out of 5 for difficulty, with unfamiliar word shape as the main trap factor. The P-S-H opening, lone vowel in fourth position, and final W resist the patterns solvers test most readily.
A solver can identify the A and still burn guesses trying to build a familiar noun or verb around it. Once ordinary constructions fail, a broad probe covering P, S, H, and W is stronger than rearranging the same comfortable consonants.
What This Puzzle Teaches
When the grid refuses to form a familiar word, widen your search to interjections and other less common parts of speech. A probe guess that tests several untouched consonants can reveal an odd structure faster than another plausible-looking near match.
Tomorrow's Reset
Puzzle #1853 drops at midnight in your timezone, Wednesday handing the streak over to a fresh board.
PSHAW was a sharp test of vocabulary and pattern flexibility. How did your solve go, and which clue finally broke it open?
See you at midnight for the next challenge.
