Puzzle #1847 went live at midnight on July 10, 2026. If you haven’t solved it yet and prefer to work through it yourself first, three hints are below. The full solution and a note on today’s difficulty follow.
Hint 1: The word contains two vowels, and they are the same letter repeated.
Hint 2: It is a noun. Think of water moving through a human-made passage, whether for shipping or irrigation.
Hint 3: The word starts with C and ends with L. One of its consonants appears in the middle of the word.
Wordle #1847 Answer:
CANAL
CANAL is a noun denoting an artificial waterway built to allow passage of boats or to convey water for irrigation. The word descends from Latin “canalis,” meaning channel or groove, a root that also produced the English word “channel.” Famous canals have reshaped global commerce: the Panama Canal, opened in 1914, cut weeks off shipping routes between the Atlantic and Pacific; the Suez Canal, completed in 1869, remains one of the world’s busiest waterways. In anatomy, the ear canal is another common use of the term.
Today’s puzzle runs moderate in difficulty. The double-A pattern narrows the vowel field quickly for players who open with vowel-rich guesses. The N in the third position is the trickiest placement to land on. Solvers who test common consonant combinations early should converge on CANAL within four to five attempts.
Wordle resets at midnight Eastern every day. For more NYT word game solutions, yesterday’s Wordle #1846 answer for July 9, 2026 is on Eastern Herald, along with the NYT Spelling Bee answers for July 9 and the Quordle solution for July 9, 2026.
