Today's NYT Wordle lands with puzzle #1917, and brings a crisp challenge whose familiar meaning is easier to recognize than its spelling pattern. Whether you are protecting a streak or opening Wordle for the first time, welcome to today’s solve.
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 #1917 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: All common letters
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 quiet scene transformed by winter weather.
Level 2 (The Category): An adjective describing something covered in frozen precipitation or marked by wintry conditions.
Level 3 (The Boundaries): Starts with S, ends with Y.
Level 4 (The Structure): All five letters are different, and the vowel sits in position 3.
Level 5 (The Giveaway): The word describes a landscape blanketed in white flakes after a winter storm.
Quick-Reference Clues
First Letter: S
Last Letter: Y
Vowels Present: O
Double Letters: No
Rhymes With: SHOWY, DOUGHY
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 #1917 is: SNOWY
Word DNA: Breaking Down Today's Answer
SNOWY means covered with snow, full of snow, or resembling snow in color. A mountain road can be snowy, while white hair can be described as snowy without any winter weather involved.
Origins: SNOWY comes from snow plus the adjective-forming suffix -y, with roots reaching back to the Old English word snāwig.
Word Family: snow, snowier, snowiest, snowily, snowiness
Fun Fact: The suffix turns a familiar weather noun into a descriptive adjective, but the resulting consonant-heavy spelling gives Wordle more bite than the everyday meaning suggests.
The Streak Saver Rating
I rate this puzzle 3 out of 5 for difficulty, with an unusual ending as the main trap factor.
The grid contains four consonants, one conventional vowel in the center, and no repeated letters, producing a tight pattern that can be slow to assemble from partial information.
A solver can identify the central vowel and still struggle to connect the opening consonant pair with the final two-character sequence. A probe that tests N, W, and Y together can expose the structure before another narrow candidate consumes a guess.
What This Puzzle Teaches
When a grid shows only one conventional vowel, treat Y as a structural possibility and test several unresolved consonants together. That discipline prevents familiar-looking fragments from dictating the next guess.
Tomorrow's Reset
Puzzle #1918 drops at midnight in your timezone, Friday handing the streak over to a fresh board.
How did SNOWY treat your grid, a clean winter stroll or a slippery finish? Reset the board, keep the consonant lesson, and return ready for the next puzzle.
See you at midnight for the next challenge.
