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Wordle Answers: November 2021

Browse all 30 completed answers from November 2021, with a page for each puzzle's definition, difficulty and solver replay.

November 2021 in review

November 2021 is complete, with 30 puzzles and every date recorded. On the site's word-property scale it was an ordinary month. The highest estimated difficulty occurred on Nov 27, 2021 and the lowest on Nov 2, 2021; 6 answers doubled a letter and 5 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.

The hardest and easiest answers

Highest estimated difficulty

TILDE 3.5 pts · Nov 27, 2021 · #161

TILDE appears less than once per million words in the corpus-based frequency data, so familiarity alone sets a Hard floor. Its five distinct letters include at least two vowels and none of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.

Lowest estimated difficulty

GREAT 0 pts · Nov 2, 2021 · #136

GREAT has five distinct letters, 2 vowels and no uncommon letters. Common first guesses therefore test many of its letters.

The spread ran from 0 points on Nov 2, 2021 to 3.5 on Nov 27, 2021. Both numbers describe single words, not a sequence. A hard day and an easy one can occur in the same week, so the trend line below compares whole months rather than individual days.

The difficulty trend

An ordinary month. November's 30 answers averaged 1.4 points on the estimated word-difficulty scale against 1.7 across the trailing five months, and a gap of 0.3 points sits inside the normal month-to-month spread of about ±0.3. At roughly thirty answers a month that is sampling noise, not a change in how answers were chosen. The difference does not support changing openers or strategy. The scale combines general-English corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and missing vowels. It measures word properties, not player results.

Letters and patterns

6 of 30 answers doubled a letter, below the long-run archive rate of about 31%. Fewer than usual, so plain no-repeat guessing went largely unpunished.

5 of 30 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W, below the long-run archive rate of about 28%. Standard openers test these letters less often, so the difficulty scale adds a penalty for each one.

No day reused an earlier answer: every puzzle this month was a first appearance in the site's recorded history. Repeats do happen, so a word having been a solution before is still no reason to drop it from your guesses.

Double-letter days: Nov 1 (#135) doubled R; Nov 3 (#137) doubled A; Nov 4 (#138) doubled P; Nov 16 (#150) doubled L; Nov 20 (#154) doubled R; Nov 26 (#160) doubled C.

Uncommon-letter days: Nov 9 (#143) used X; Nov 18 (#152) used K and V; Nov 25 (#159) used W; Nov 26 (#160) used K; Nov 29 (#163) used V.

How players fared

No day from this month has reached the Observatory's minimum public sample of 10 opt-in games, so no crowd numbers appear. The gate is deliberate: below it, a handful of results could stand in for a crowd and misrepresent a day.

Answer words are shown only for completed puzzles. Open a puzzle for its definition, difficulty and solver replay.

DateDayPuzzleAnswerWord difficulty
Nov 30, 2021 Tuesday #164 → BRING Used 2 times Moderate
Nov 29, 2021 Monday #163 → PROVE Moderate
Nov 28, 2021 Sunday #162 → STORE Easy
Nov 27, 2021 Saturday #161 → TILDE Hard
Nov 26, 2021 Friday #160 → CLOCK Used 2 times Hard
Nov 25, 2021 Thursday #159 → WROTE Moderate
Nov 24, 2021 Wednesday #158 → RETCH Hard
Nov 23, 2021 Tuesday #157 → PERCH Moderate
Nov 22, 2021 Monday #156 → ROUGE Easy
Nov 21, 2021 Sunday #155 → RADIO Easy
Nov 20, 2021 Saturday #154 → SURER Hard
Nov 19, 2021 Friday #153 → FINER Easy
Nov 18, 2021 Thursday #152 → VODKA Tricky
Nov 17, 2021 Wednesday #151 → HERON Easy
Nov 16, 2021 Tuesday #150 → CHILL Tricky
Nov 15, 2021 Monday #149 → GAUDY Tricky
Nov 14, 2021 Sunday #148 → PITHY Tricky
Nov 13, 2021 Saturday #147 → SMART Moderate
Nov 12, 2021 Friday #146 → BADLY Moderate
Nov 11, 2021 Thursday #145 → ROGUE Easy
Nov 10, 2021 Wednesday #144 → GROUP Easy
Nov 9, 2021 Tuesday #143 → FIXER Moderate
Nov 8, 2021 Monday #142 → GROIN Easy
Nov 7, 2021 Sunday #141 → DUCHY Moderate
Nov 6, 2021 Saturday #140 → COAST Easy
Nov 5, 2021 Friday #139 → BLURT Hard
Nov 4, 2021 Thursday #138 → PULPY Hard
Nov 3, 2021 Wednesday #137 → ALTAR Moderate
Nov 2, 2021 Tuesday #136 → GREAT Easy
Nov 1, 2021 Monday #135 → BRIAR Tricky

On this day in Wordle

Past answers published on September 7 in earlier years. Every puzzle listed here is complete, so this section does not spoil a live game.

  1. 1 year ago
    Easy

    Nothing unusual appears in the letters: all five are distinct and familiar. Ordinary letter coverage works well on words like this.

    Puzzle #1,541 → Word page →

  2. 2 years ago
    Moderate

    Nothing unusual appears in the letters: all five are distinct and familiar. Ordinary letter coverage works well on words like this.

    Puzzle #1,176 → Word page →

  3. 3 years ago
    Hard

    The doubled L raises the difficulty. Once a letter shows up yellow or green, few players try it a second time unprompted.

    Puzzle #810 → Word page →

The Easy-to-Brutal badge combines general-English corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and vowel count. It estimates word difficulty, not player results. Dates come from the site's recorded answer history.

Archive totals

30 Answers
B Most common start (4)
E Most common end (6)
TILDE Highest estimated difficulty

Estimated word difficulty combines wordfreq corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and vowel count. It measures word properties, not player results. Compare solver difficulty →

  • Easy 10
  • Moderate 9
  • Tricky 5
  • Hard 6

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