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Wordle July 17, 2026: Hints & Answer (#1,854)

edited by Tracy Bennett.

Recap

The answer to Wordle #1854 was LEGAL. Solvers had a straightforward challenge on July 17, 2026, with a word that fit neatly into a common category.

Wordle hints, one rung at a time

Five rungs, softest first. The recap above already named the word, so this ladder is here for anyone replaying the puzzle fresh rather than as a spoiler shield.

  1. The shape of the word

    No letters of the answer are spelled out.

    The word has a mix of common consonants and vowels, with no repeated letters. It ends in a fairly common sequence.

  2. How the vowels sat

    There are two vowels in the answer, one near the start and one towards the end.

  3. Word facts

    Counted off the answer.

    Length
    5 letters
    Different letters
    4 of 5
    Repeats
    1 letter appears twice
    Vowels (A E I O U)
    2
  4. What the word means

    A definition, without the word in it.

    Pertaining to the law or relating to a lawyer's work, often in a formal or official sense.

  5. The first letter

    The recap above already named the word; this rung is for a replay.

    Starts with
    L
    Jump to the answer

The answer to that puzzle

Spoiler below. It stays folded until you open it.

  • Wordle #1,854 · 5 letters

    LEGAL

    Pertaining to the law or relating to a lawyer's work, often in a formal or official sense.

This puzzle by the numbers

Puzzle
#1,854 · Friday, July 17, 2026
Length
5 letters
Different letters
4
Vowels
2
Guesses allowed
6

About Wordle #1,854

The number above is the count of days since Wordle launched on 19 June 2021, which is what the share grid prints — not the internal id the puzzle data carries. TodayHint reads it off the stored row for Friday, July 17, 2026 rather than adding one to the previous page, so a date we never fetched can never shift every number that follows it.

Everyone who played this puzzle saw the same word, wherever they were: the board rolls over at local midnight, so a solver in Auckland met it well before one in Los Angeles, but never a different answer. Six guesses, no timer, and the only feedback is the colours — green for a letter in the right place, yellow for a letter in the wrong one, grey for a letter that is not there at all. The rungs above rebuild that information in order, so this page can still be played as a puzzle rather than read as a result.

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