Wordle #1709, for Sunday, February 22, 2026, is GUAVA. If you want to solve it yourself first, start with the hints below and stop before the spoiler.
Hints for Wordle #1709
- The answer has three vowels.
- It starts with a consonant.
- One letter appears twice.
- It is a sweet, slightly tangy tropical fruit.
A further clue: guava is associated with Cuban pastries and can have pink flesh. WordFinder’s indexed guide includes those descriptions, although its full page was unavailable for review.
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Wordle #1709 answer
Spoiler: the answer is GUAVA.
What does “guava” mean?
FiveLetterWords relays a Wiktionary-derived definition of guava as “A tropical tree or shrub of the myrtle family, Psidium guajava.” The answer fits the fruit clue, while the word also names the plant.
How difficult was Wordle #1709?
FiveLetterWords labeled GUAVA “Tricky” because it is uncommon in general English and includes a repeated letter and uncommon letters. Its solver-pressure score was 13/100 in 2026. That figure is a percentile from the site’s fixed solver comparison, not a measure of how real players performed; the site said it did not have enough contributed games to publish player figures for this puzzle.
In the same site’s working answer-pool comparison, the tested openers left 50 possible answers after CRANE, 49 after SLATE, and 39 after ADIEU. Those are solver-pool counts, not results from players’ games.
Quick Recap
Rank #2
Sources
- Parade’s February 22, 2026 Wordle guide for the dated answer and hints.
- FiveLetterWords’ February 22, 2026 puzzle page for the answer, definition attribution, and qualified difficulty context.
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