Today's NYT Wordle lands with puzzle #1861, and asks for careful letter accounting inside an otherwise familiar-looking word. The doubled sound is easy to hear but less obvious to place on the grid.
Streak protectors and first-time solvers alike are welcome to work through the clues at their own pace.
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 #1861 awaits.
The Letter Rundown
Today's puzzle breaks down like this:
Vowel Count: 1 vowel(s)
Consonant Count: 4 consonant(s)
Repeated Letters: Yes - the letter T appears twice
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 something practical, pliable, and useful for small repairs.
Level 2 (The Category): This noun names a soft material that can be pressed into gaps or shaped by hand.
Level 3 (The Boundaries): Starts with P, ends with Y.
Level 4 (The Structure): One letter appears twice, once in position 3 and again in position 4.
Level 5 (The Giveaway): It is the soft, claylike substance commonly used to fill holes, seal glass, or smooth a surface before finishing.
Quick-Reference Clues
First Letter: P
Last Letter: Y
Vowels Present: U
Double Letters: Yes - T
Rhymes With: NUTTY, RUTTY
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 #1861 is: PUTTY
Word DNA: Breaking Down Today's Answer
PUTTY is a soft, moldable material used to fill gaps, seal joints, or repair surface flaws. You might press it around a windowpane or work it into a small hole before painting.
Origins: The word entered English in the seventeenth century from French potée, a term associated with a prepared polishing substance and ultimately related to pot.
Word Family: putties, puttied, puttying
Fun Fact: Its family shows the familiar y-to-i change in putties and puttied, while puttying keeps the y before the suffix. That recognizable spelling family can make the base word feel obvious even while its doubled consonant complicates the Wordle grid.
The Streak Saver Rating
This earns a 3 out of 5 for difficulty, with a double-letter trap as the main obstacle.
The adjacent Ts occupy the third and fourth positions, while the lone vowel sits second and Y closes the word. That compact pattern leaves little room for error once the ending begins to take shape.
A solver can uncover U, T, and Y, assume the single T is fully accounted for, and spend a turn testing a different fourth letter. The answer instead requires that T to appear twice in succession.
When the pattern narrows toward _UTTY, a probe such as PRONG tests several plausible opening consonants at once. That disciplined check separates P from alternatives such as N, R, and G without wasting multiple guesses.
What This Puzzle Teaches
Treat every confirmed letter as reusable until the grid proves otherwise. When a familiar pattern stalls, testing a duplicate can be more valuable than introducing another new consonant.
A broad probe guess is strongest when it distinguishes several live candidates in one turn. Carry that habit into tomorrow's puzzle whenever one unresolved position supports a cluster of plausible words.
Tomorrow's Reset
Puzzle #1862 drops at midnight in your timezone, Friday handing the streak over to a fresh board.
PUTTY rewards the solver who respects repeated letters and keeps the candidate list under control. How did your solve go, clean finish or late double-letter surprise?
See you at midnight for the next challenge.
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