September 16, 2026
The solution to today's Wordle is WISPY.
The Wordle answer today is WISPY.
Done. One more puzzle, sixty seconds ›Wordle #1,915 for September 16, 2026: the answer is WISPY.
Wordle #1,916, September 17, 2026, was THETA.
One real news sentence. Tap the five words a headline would keep. Same colours, five tries, one minute.
One real news sentence. Tap five of its words, in order, the five a headline would keep, then guess. Blue means right word, right spot. Orange means it is in the headline, somewhere else. Grey means it is not in it. Five tries. The result beats the process, the name or the job beats the place, and little words like a, the and of never count.
Yesterday: Karl Wenner turned 70 acres of his barley farm near Klamath Falls into a wetland, home now to 140 bird species and twenty thousand ducks. The five: Wenner turned farm into wetland.
Of the usual opening words, RAISE gets 2 in the wrong place. TRACE finds nothing at all. CRANE, TRACE all come up blank, so a grey first row today does not mean a bad word.
The vowel sits in the second position. P is the letter to worry about: it is one of the ten least common letters in English, and most opening words never test it. Five different letters, so no double-letter trap today.
If you are on guess four with two greens and a blank middle, list every common letter that fits the gap before you type. The words that end streaks are the ones with an uncommon letter in a common frame, and today's is a 1-vowel word, which is the harder kind.
| Date | # | Answer | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 17, 2026 | 1,916 | THETA | |
| September 15, 2026 | 1,914 | DEALT | |
| September 14, 2026 | 1,913 | RINSE | |
| September 13, 2026 | 1,912 | FOCUS | to concentrate one's attention |
| September 12, 2026 | 1,911 | NIFTY | |
| September 11, 2026 | 1,910 | ASTER | |
| September 10, 2026 | 1,909 | DRYLY | |
| September 9, 2026 | 1,908 | BURST | to break from internal pressure |
| September 8, 2026 | 1,907 | LIVEN | |
| September 7, 2026 | 1,906 | BLIND | unable to see |
You know Wordle. This is the same idea with words instead of letters. Every day there is one real news sentence, twenty to thirty words, something that actually happened. Your job is to tap the five words a headline would keep. Wordle colours score you: blue means the word is in the answer and in the right place, orange means it is in the answer but in a different place, grey means it is not in the headline. Five tries.
The answer follows the rules a newspaper desk uses. The result beats the process, so a pond that became a wildlife habitat beats the digging. A name you can picture beats a count. The glue words, a, the, of, and, never count. When you finish, the game shows every word in the sentence and why it lived or why it died, and then tells you the true story behind the sentence.
It is free, no account, and your streak lives on this device. There is a Hard mode for people who want a second, longer sentence with three tries.
For September 16, 2026, puzzle #1,915, tap the tiles at the top, or read it under the heading above.
#1,916 was THETA.
#1,915.
Within a few hours of midnight Eastern, once the day's word is confirmed by two sources. Today: 1:35 AM ET.
No. Official Wordle is on the New York Times. This page is unofficial hints and the answer, then Long Story Short, a different game.
