Sunday is here, and Forbes published its Today’s Wordle #1793 Hints And Answer For Sunday, May 17, with the day’s main puzzle guide and a bonus custom Wordle. The bonus puzzle is 7 letters long, and the clue says it begins and ends with consonants. The answer given in the guide is bylaw.
Wordle remains the same daily word puzzle that asks players to guess a hidden five-letter word in six tries or fewer, but the bonus custom challenge gives the guide a second hook for readers hunting a wordle hint before they commit to a guess. That extra puzzle is part of the routine Forbes has built into its daily coverage, and it helps explain why the Sunday edition lands with a little more weight than a standard daily recap.
The answer, bylaw, has older roots than the game itself. It comes from Old Norse bȳlǫg, a term that meant town law or local law, and in English it came to describe a subordinate or local rule made by a town, corporation, or organization. That kind of language is exactly the sort of thing that can trip up players who are expecting a cleaner, more everyday word.
This is where the puzzle and the clue split apart. The game’s central challenge is still a five-letter answer in six tries or fewer, but Forbes’ bonus custom Wordle asks readers to think beyond the usual structure. A seven-letter word that starts and ends with consonants narrows the field, but not enough to make the answer obvious. For readers who remember the repeated-letter trap in Wordle Hint Today: Wordle #1,780 Trips Players With a Repeated Letter, or the tougher Today Wordle Hints: Wordle #1786 Proved Tough With Repeated Vowel, the appeal is familiar: the clue sounds simple until the letters begin to move.
For today’s players, the important point is not just that bylaw is the answer. It is that the guide shows how Wordle coverage now works as a daily companion piece, mixing the regular five-letter game with a bonus challenge that can be harder than it first appears. Sunday’s guide gives readers the answer, the etymology, and the extra custom clue in one place, and that is usually enough to send them back to the grid with a better starting point than they had a minute before.
