Word Chain Level 217 Answers
The full answer is WHITE → DWARF → PLANET → EARTH → …, with a definition for every word. This chain is about the game average of 6.8 words.
Level 217 — 7 Words
Read it left to right: every neighbouring pair makes a compound or a phrase. More chains are in levels 201–250.
Why Each Word Follows the Last
Each pair below is the compound or phrase that joins two neighbours. Spotting one usually gives you the next.
What Each Word Means
Useful when a link looks wrong: a word in a chain is often being used in its second or third sense rather than the obvious one.
Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
A creature from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having supernatural powers and being skilled in metalworking. Sometimes pluralized dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature.
A large body which directly orbits any star (or star cluster) but which has not attained nuclear fusion.
Our planet, third out from the Sun; see main entry Earth.
A trembling or shaking.
Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles).
The action of defending or protecting from attack, danger, or injury. Other Levels Jump to a few of the next or previous levels in Word Chain. Previous Levels Level 214 Level 215 Level 216 Next Levels Level 218 Level 219 Level 220 We want to provide as many answers and guides as possible to help you beat puzzle games. This page is specifically for Word Chain, but you can check out the other games
Other Levels in 201-250
How to Break Level 217 Open
Start from the ends, not the middle
The first and last words have only one neighbour each, so they carry the least ambiguity. Here that is WHITE and DEFENSE. The same trick works on every chain in levels 201-250.
A word can join in either direction
Chains use compounds both ways round — white dwarf reads forwards, but many links only work if you try the reverse. If a word refuses to fit, flip the pair.
Check the second meaning
7 of the words here carry a definition above. Chains lean on secondary senses far more than the obvious one, which is why a link can look wrong until you read what the word actually means.
How to Solve a Word Chain Level
Ends first, then work inwards.
Read the chain as a sequence
It is not a word list. Each answer must join the one before it, so the order is part of the puzzle — see the full level list for how they grow.
Anchor at both ends
The outer words have a single neighbour each, so they are the least ambiguous place to start.
Try the pair both ways
Compounds work in one direction only. When a candidate stalls, reverse it before discarding it.
Verified Answers, Not Guesses
How we verify every chain for all 569 levels, with definitions for the words
Levels are taken from the published answers and cross-checked against a second source, which agreed on all 520 levels it covers. The game itself ends at level 569: the source answers HTTP 200 for any higher number and serves one repeated puzzle, so those are deliberately not published. The routine is in our methodology and the standards in our editorial policy.
Reviewed by Priya Raghunathan, Word Games Editor at Puzzle Solved. The full checking routine is in the methodology, and the standards every page is held to are in the editorial policy.
Last checked — Aug 24, 2026