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Wordle hints for January 17, 2026
Try these clues in order, stopping when you have enough to make a guess.
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The word has five different letters: two vowels and three consonants.
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Its pattern is consonant-vowel-vowel-consonant-consonant.
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The vowels are I and E.
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It starts with F and ends with a consonant.
Possible opening guesses suggested by Xfire include CRANE, TRACE, and SOARE. Erik Kain’s January 16 Forbes guide offered “Passionate” as a hint and listed the answer among the possibilities remaining in his solve; that is his account, not a claim that one strategy works best for everyone.
Today’s Wordle answer
Spoiler: the answer is FIERY.
Answer archives from Xfire, NYT Game Solver, and Forbes identify FIERY as the answer for Saturday, January 17, 2026, puzzle #1673. These are secondary sources; an official NYT archive record was not available to confirm the entry directly.
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