Today's NYT Wordle lands with puzzle #1947, and a familiar word rewards a fresh look when your first arrangement refuses to fit. Streak protectors and newcomers alike, welcome to another chance to turn good clues into a clean finish.
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 #1947 awaits.
The Letter Rundown
Today's puzzle breaks down like this:
Vowel Count: 2 vowel(s)
Consonant Count: 3 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 the finishing touch that makes something feel ready for a special occasion.
Level 2 (The Category): A verb for making something more attractive through decoration.
Level 3 (The Boundaries): Starts with A, ends with N.
Level 4 (The Structure): All five letters are different, and the vowels sit in positions 1 and 3.
Level 5 (The Giveaway): To beautify something by adding flowers, jewels, or other decorative touches.
Quick-Reference Clues
First Letter: A
Last Letter: N
Vowels Present: A, O
Double Letters: No
Rhymes With: BORN, CORN, HORN
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 #1947 is: ADORN
Word DNA: Breaking Down Today's Answer
ADORN means to decorate or add beauty to something. You can adorn a doorway with a wreath, or say that bright paintings adorn the walls.
Origins: Adorn traces back through French to Latin adornare, meaning to equip or embellish. Its Latin base, ornare, also lies behind ornament.
Word Family: adorned, adorning, adornment, unadorned
Fun Fact: Unadorned can describe plain language as well as an undecorated object. That familiar relative offers a useful route back to the shorter verb when the Wordle grid leaves you searching.
The Streak Saver Rating
I'd rate this 3 out of 5, with arrangement as the trap factor. A and O occupy the first and third slots, while D, R, and N complete a pattern with no repeated letters.
The trap is treating a yellow A as an interior vowel and repeatedly building consonant-first guesses around it. If your clues permit it, deliberately test an A-first arrangement and check every yellow letter against its excluded positions before submitting.
What This Puzzle Teaches
Separate finding letters from placing them. When a promising set refuses to form a word, rebuild from the position constraints and give a vowel-led arrangement a deliberate look.
Tomorrow's Reset
Puzzle #1948 drops at midnight in your timezone, Sunday handing the streak over to a fresh board.
Did ADORN fall into place quickly, or did that opening vowel keep you rearranging? Carry the useful clue forward and give tomorrow's grid a fresh start.
See you at midnight for the next challenge.