NYT Connections hints today: Meanings for each word for Sept. 9, 2026

Today, NYT Connections offers meanings for each word, providing a spoiler-free explanation of the clues in today's puzzle. The service, familiar for providing hints and answers for other word games like Wordle, Strands, and more, is dedicated to helping players understand the meanings behind the words, as they may have unrelated meanings themselves.

Several words covered today include "beware" (extremely confusing), "esoteric" (super niche), "incomprehensible" (impossible to comprehend), "opaue" (blocking of radiant or hard to explain), "microbrewery" (boutique brewery making craft beer), "minivan" (small passenger van), "nanotechnology" (materials assembled at atomic or molecular level), "picosecond" (one trillionth of a second), "arachnophobia" (fear of spiders), "Halloween" (October 31, also a well-known slasher movie franchise), and "IT" (pronoun for lifeless things or a Stephen King novel).

Additional tech and digital culture terms include "saw" (power tool with toothed blades) and "brute" (describing physical strength), along with the symbol "g" for gravitational force. Lastly, the word "task" refers to work or an assignment needing completion.