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Wordle Answers: November 2022

Browse all 30 completed answers from November 2022, with a page for each puzzle's definition, difficulty and solver replay.

November 2022 in review

November 2022 is complete, with 30 puzzles and every date recorded. On the site's word-property scale it was an unusually gentle one. The highest estimated difficulty occurred on Nov 1, 2022 and the lowest on Nov 2, 2022; 6 answers doubled a letter and 6 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.

The hardest and easiest answers

Highest estimated difficulty

PINEY 3.5 pts · Nov 1, 2022 · #500

PINEY 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

INEPT 0 pts · Nov 2, 2022 · #501

INEPT 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, 2022 to 3.5 on Nov 1, 2022. 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 unusually gentle month by the estimate. November's 30 answers averaged 1.0 points against 1.5 across the trailing six months, 0.5 points below, outside the normal month-to-month spread of about ±0.3. Fewer answers with low corpus frequency, repeats, uncommon letters or few vowels appeared than usual. 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.

6 of 30 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W, in line with 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 4 (#503) doubled O; Nov 8 (#507) doubled L; Nov 13 (#512) doubled N; Nov 17 (#516) doubled E; Nov 27 (#526) doubled P; Nov 29 (#528) doubled U.

Uncommon-letter days: Nov 12 (#511) used V; Nov 16 (#515) used K; Nov 19 (#518) used V; Nov 20 (#519) used V; Nov 21 (#520) used X; Nov 23 (#522) 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, 2022 Wednesday #529 → STUDY Moderate
Nov 29, 2022 Tuesday #528 → UNDUE Moderate
Nov 28, 2022 Monday #527 → TEPID Tricky
Nov 27, 2022 Sunday #526 → HAPPY Tricky
Nov 26, 2022 Saturday #525 → CLEAN Easy
Nov 25, 2022 Friday #524 → ITCHY Moderate
Nov 24, 2022 Thursday #523 → FEAST Easy
Nov 23, 2022 Wednesday #522 → DRIVE Moderate
Nov 22, 2022 Tuesday #521 → PRIME Easy
Nov 21, 2022 Monday #520 → AXIOM Moderate
Nov 20, 2022 Sunday #519 → BRAVE Moderate
Nov 19, 2022 Saturday #518 → AVERT Moderate
Nov 18, 2022 Friday #517 → GLYPH Tricky
Nov 17, 2022 Thursday #516 → THERE Moderate
Nov 16, 2022 Wednesday #515 → BAKER Moderate
Nov 15, 2022 Tuesday #514 → SNARL Tricky
Nov 14, 2022 Monday #513 → MAPLE Easy
Nov 13, 2022 Sunday #512 → INANE Tricky
Nov 12, 2022 Saturday #511 → VALET Moderate
Nov 11, 2022 Friday #510 → MEDAL Easy
Nov 10, 2022 Thursday #509 → UNITE Easy
Nov 9, 2022 Wednesday #508 → RAINY Easy
Nov 8, 2022 Tuesday #507 → SPELL Tricky
Nov 7, 2022 Monday #506 → BEGIN Easy
Nov 6, 2022 Sunday #505 → STALE Easy
Nov 5, 2022 Saturday #504 → DREAM Easy
Nov 4, 2022 Friday #503 → PHOTO Moderate
Nov 3, 2022 Thursday #502 → ALOUD Easy
Nov 2, 2022 Wednesday #501 → INEPT Easy
Nov 1, 2022 Tuesday #500 → PINEY Hard

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
S Most common start (4)
E Most common end (9)
PINEY 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 12
  • Moderate 11
  • Tricky 6
  • Hard 1

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