Today's NYT Wordle lands with puzzle #1915, and offers a delicate-looking challenge with a sharp little trap. Whether you are protecting a streak or opening your first grid, welcome to today's puzzle.
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 #1915 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 light, thin, and barely substantial.
Level 2 (The Category): An adjective for something delicate, slender, or formed from fine strands.
Level 3 (The Boundaries): Starts with W, ends with Y.
Level 4 (The Structure): All five letters are different, and the vowel sits in position 2.
Level 5 (The Giveaway): Describes something so thin, feathery, and insubstantial that it seems ready to drift away.
Quick-Reference Clues
First Letter: W
Last Letter: Y
Vowels Present: I
Double Letters: No
Rhymes With: CRISPY, LISPY
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 #1915 is: WISPY
Word DNA: Breaking Down Today's Answer
WISPY means thin, delicate, or made up of fine strands. Smoke above a candle can look wispy, as can feathery clouds or loose strands of hair.
Origins: WISPY combines wisp with the adjective-forming suffix -y. Wisp entered English in the late Middle Ages for a small bundle or tuft, but its deeper origin is uncertain, with possible Scandinavian connections.
Word Family: wisp, wispily, wispiness
Fun Fact: The suffix -y turns the concrete noun wisp into an adjective that can describe smoke, clouds, hair, and other fine formations. Its four consonants give the spelling a compact, slightly deceptive shape that plays neatly in Wordle.
The Streak Saver Rating
Difficulty: 4 out of 5. The trap factor is the consonant-heavy W-I-S-P-Y pattern, with just one conventional vowel and no repeated letters to provide an easy structural clue.
A solver who uncovers W-I early and Y at the end can drift toward familiar alternatives while overlooking the tight S-P pairing. A disciplined probe that tests S and P together separates WISPY from nearby patterns without spending another turn on confirmed characters.
What This Puzzle Teaches
When a grid has only one conventional vowel, treat adjacent consonants as a unit and test plausible clusters instead of swapping one character at a time. That approach reduces candidate overlap and carries cleanly into tomorrow's game.
Tomorrow's Reset
Puzzle #1916 drops at midnight in your timezone, Wednesday handing the streak over to a fresh board.
WISPY was light in meaning but sturdy as a trap. How did your solve go?
See you at midnight for the next challenge.
