The answer to today’s Wordle (#1923) is MESSY.
Three hints follow for players still working it out.
Hint 1: The word is a common adjective.
Hint 2: It contains a double consonant.
Hint 3: It describes something untidy or disorganised.
Today’s Wordle answer is:
MESSY
five-letter adjective meaning dirty, untidy, or complicated. The word comes from “mess,” rooted in the Old French “mes,” originally referring to a portion of food before evolving into its modern sense of disorder or confusion. “Messy” found its footing in everyday English by the mid-1800s and has since become one of the language’s most versatile descriptors – equally at home in a cluttered kitchen, an acrimonious breakup, or a wet weather forecast.
Puzzle #1923 challenged solvers with its double-S construction, a pattern that frequently trips up players who assume a word contains only one of each consonant. Opening with vowel-heavy starters like CRANE or RAISE would surface the E in position two and reveal the S quickly, narrowing the field considerably. The full five-letter answer, M-E-S-S-Y, rewards methodical elimination over lucky guesses.
Wordle resets every night at midnight Eastern Time. If you are keeping pace with the full NYT Connections answers from September 23, those are already posted, as are the NYT Strands hints and answers for September 23. For those who missed yesterday’s five-letter challenge, the Wordle answer for September 23 was FORTH. The NYT Mini Crossword answers for September 23 are also available for reference.
Today’s puzzle sits in a comfortable middle range of difficulty. Harder than a common three-letter root might suggest, easier than a word with rare consonant clusters. Most regular players should solve #1923 within four guesses.
