Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer? Wordle is an addictive yet challenging test of word knowledge. Luckily, you’ve come to the right place for some help.

Wordle confronts its legions of players with a deviously simple dilemma every day: Can you guess the correct five-letter word in just six guesses? All you have to figure out the Wordle answer are the contextual clues you get from each guess—but often that’s not enough. Wordle can be tricky, you see, and it’s not uncommon to seek a little help if you want to maintain your year-long winning streak.

In this guide, we offer a selection of Wordle tips to help you solve the puzzle for Tuesday, September 17th. Scroll down a little further and we’ll also reveal the Wordle answer for 17/9 as well as a definition of the word if you need it.

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Wordle hints: Clues for today’s Wordle on 17/9

Every day we offer a number of Wordle hints that you can use to find the solution. So read our hints below and see if you can figure it out before moving on to the answer:

What’s today’s Wordle tip?

An informal term used to describe something attractive.

What letter does today’s Wordle start with?

Today’s Wordle word starts with a B.

What letter does today’s Wordle end with?

Today’s Wordle word ends with a T.

How many vowels does today’s Wordle contain?

Today’s Wordle word contains 3 vowels.

Are there any duplicate letters in today’s Wordle?

There are 5 unique letters in today’s Wordle word.

What’s a good opening word for today’s Wordle?

When you type the opening word ‘abuse’, four letters turn yellow.

Still struggling to find today’s Wordle solution? To continue your winning streak, scroll down to see today’s Wordle answer, and a description of what the word means.

What is the Wordle answer for today, September 17?

It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle from 9/17. The word is…

NICE.

Congratulations if you guessed the Wordle answer correctly today!

What does today’s Wordle answer mean?

Beaut is short for beautiful, and is used not only to describe a beautiful person, but also a beautiful idea or event. For example: “The view from the cliffs was a real beauty.”

How to Share Your Wordle Results Without Spoilers

Wordle has a built-in method to share your results in a spoiler-free way. The people you send your results to will not see today’s Wordle word, only the colors in your grid to show how well you performed.

To share your Wordle results, complete (or lose) today’s Wordle and wait a moment for the statistics panel to appear on your screen. Then tap the “SHARE” button.

On PC, this simply copies the text to your clipboard, so you can paste it anywhere you want, whether it’s a private message or a social media status update. On iPhone or Android, when you tap the “SHARE” button, you’ll have the option to copy the text to your clipboard or share the results directly to another app on your phone (like WhatsApp or Twitter).

Using Wordle’s built-in sharing feature is a much more fun way to share your results than giving away the answer to those who haven’t had a chance to play Wordle today themselves. So we highly recommend that you use it!

How to Play Wordle

Wordle is wonderfully simple. The goal is to guess the correct five-letter word within six guesses. After each guess, the letters of your chosen word are highlighted in green if they are in the right place, yellow if they are in the wrong place, or gray if they are not in the word at all.

These clues will help you find the right word. Visit the Wordle site to try it yourself!

How did Wordle come into being?

Wordle started out as a small family game created by software developer Josh Wardle. He created the game so he and his partner could have a fun word game together during the pandemic, and they quickly realized that there was something special about this simple guessing game. So after a bit of refining, Wardle released it to the public on his website, Power Language.

The game was released in October 2021, and by the end of the year, it had two million daily players. It became a viral hit, largely due to the ease with which players could share their results spoiler-free on Twitter and other social media sites. In January 2022, Wardle accepted an offer from the New York Times to acquire Wordle for a seven-figure sum. Well done, Mr. Wardle. Well done indeed.

Are there any Wordle words that are not allowed?

You can type in virtually any five-letter word in the English language and Wordle will accept it as a guess. However, the answer is chosen each day from a much smaller list of more common five-letter words. Of course, there are still thousands of possible answers, but it means that the answer will never be a word as obscure as, say, “THIOL”, or “CAIRD”, or “MALIC” (yes, those are all real words).

There are very occasionally words that The New York Times chooses not to publish as the Wordle answer of the day, perhaps for reasons related to recent news or politics. For example, shortly after news broke that Roe v Wade would be overturned in the United States, the NYT decided to change the March 30 word from “FETUS” to “SHINE,” because it felt that the word “fetus” was too politically charged in the context of recent events.

The New York Times has also been careful never to allow what it considers rude words to be the answer to a Wordle puzzle. But of course, there’s nothing stopping you from using even the dirtiest words as a guess, as long as they’re accepted words in the dictionary and as long as you realize that they’ll never be the answer.

Is Wordle getting too easy for you?

If Wordle is starting to get too easy, there are a few ways to make the game more challenging for yourself. The first choice is to turn on Hard Mode. You can do this on the Wordle site by clicking on the gear icon at the top right of the screen. Hard Mode means that all highlighted letters must will be used in all future guesses. This prevents you from using the common tactic of choosing two words like “OUNCE” and “PAINS” to test all five vowels early on.

You can take it up a notch by playing what we call “Ultra-Hard” rules. This means that every bet you make must could possibly be the answer. If you were just playing on Hard mode and you typed “MOIST” and the “O” appeared in yellow, there would be nothing stopping you from making “POLAR” as your next word, even though that couldn’t possibly be the answer because you already know the “O” is in the wrong place. If you’re playing by the “Ultra-Hard” rules, that’s not allowed. You have to stick to every clue and make every word you type possibly the answer.

If Wordle still seems too easy for you after all that hassle, you can always try one of the many other Wordle-inspired games online that have appeared in the past year. One of our favorites is Worldle, in which you have to guess a country in the world based on its shape. There’s also Waffle, which has you swap letters in an entire grid to complete all the words; Moviedle, which shows you an entire movie in a short amount of time and challenges you to guess the movie within six guesses; and Quordle, which has you solve four Wordles at once with the same guess.

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If you need help with future Wordles, be sure to check out our list of the best Wordle starter words for the greatest chance of success. You can also check out our archive of past Wordle answers to see which words have been chosen before.