Today’s NYT Wordle for Friday, September 18, 2026, is puzzle #1917. Today’s answer is a five-letter adjective closely connected with winter weather. The word uses five different letters, but the final Y may make the solution slightly less obvious if your early guesses focus mainly on standard vowels.
If you are stuck, use the four progressive Wordle hints below one at a time before revealing today’s answer.
Today’s Wordle hints for September 18
- Hint 1: Today’s answer has no repeated letters.
- Hint 2: The word contains one standard vowel, with Y appearing at the end.
- Hint 3: It is an adjective commonly used to describe winter weather or a landscape.
- Hint 4: Think of conditions after plenty of frozen white precipitation has fallen.
Check your Wordle guess: Enter any five-letter word below. Green means the letter is correct and in the right position, yellow means it appears elsewhere, and grey means it is not in today’s answer.
Today’s Wordle answer for September 18
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Today’s Wordle answer is SNOWY.
Snowy is an adjective used to describe weather with snow or a place covered by snow.
The answer begins with S, ends with Y and contains no repeated letters. The only standard vowel is O, while Y functions as a vowel-like sound at the end of the word.
Players can attempt the official daily puzzle and review their statistics on the New York Times Wordle page.













