Highest estimated difficulty
QUEUE combines the scale's two heaviest penalties: it repeats E and U and contains uncommon Q, which ordinary opening guesses rarely test.
Past Answers
Wordle Answers: November 2023
Browse all 30 completed answers from November 2023, with a page for each puzzle's definition, difficulty and solver replay.
November 2023 in review
November 2023 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 19, 2023 and the lowest on Nov 1, 2023; 10 answers doubled a letter and 8 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.
The hardest and easiest answers
Lowest estimated difficulty
NOISE has five distinct letters, 3 vowels and no uncommon letters. Common first guesses therefore test many of its letters.
The spread ran from 0 points on Nov 1, 2023 to 4 on Nov 19, 2023. 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 1.2 points on the estimated word-difficulty scale against 1.4 across the trailing six months, and a gap of 0.2 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
10 of 30 answers doubled a letter, in line with the long-run archive rate of about 31%. This matches the usual rate. Test a repeat when the board stalls.
8 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 3 (#867) doubled R; Nov 4 (#868) doubled A; Nov 7 (#871) doubled I; Nov 8 (#872) doubled N; Nov 13 (#877) doubled E; Nov 14 (#878) doubled S; Nov 16 (#880) doubled T; Nov 19 (#883) doubled E and U; Nov 23 (#887) doubled E; Nov 29 (#893) doubled S.
Uncommon-letter days: Nov 8 (#872) used J; Nov 9 (#873) used Z; Nov 18 (#882) used K; Nov 19 (#883) used Q; Nov 22 (#886) used X; Nov 23 (#887) used Q; Nov 24 (#888) used W; Nov 27 (#891) used W.
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.
| Date | Day | Puzzle | Answer | Word difficulty |
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| Nov 30, 2023 | Thursday | #894 → | RESIN | Easy |
| Nov 29, 2023 | Wednesday | #893 → | SUSHI | Moderate |
| Nov 28, 2023 | Tuesday | #892 → | SCOPE | Easy |
| Nov 27, 2023 | Monday | #891 → | TAWNY | Tricky |
| Nov 26, 2023 | Sunday | #890 → | SOLID | Easy |
| Nov 25, 2023 | Saturday | #889 → | GUIDE | Easy |
| Nov 24, 2023 | Friday | #888 → | THROW | Tricky |
| Nov 23, 2023 | Thursday | #887 → | QUEEN | Tricky |
| Nov 22, 2023 | Wednesday | #886 → | PIXEL | Moderate |
| Nov 21, 2023 | Tuesday | #885 → | PIANO | Easy |
| Nov 20, 2023 | Monday | #884 → | CANDY | Moderate |
| Nov 19, 2023 | Sunday | #883 → | QUEUE | Hard |
| Nov 18, 2023 | Saturday | #882 → | THINK | Tricky |
| Nov 17, 2023 | Friday | #881 → | TARDY | Tricky |
| Nov 16, 2023 | Thursday | #880 → | TRUST | Tricky |
| Nov 15, 2023 | Wednesday | #879 → | SIGHT | Moderate |
| Nov 14, 2023 | Tuesday | #878 → | SASSY | Hard |
| Nov 13, 2023 | Monday | #877 → | GREEN | Moderate |
| Nov 12, 2023 | Sunday | #876 → | MEANT | Easy |
| Nov 11, 2023 | Saturday | #875 → | ACTOR | Easy |
| Nov 10, 2023 | Friday | #874 → | LEASH | Easy |
| Nov 9, 2023 | Thursday | #873 → | GLAZE | Moderate |
| Nov 8, 2023 | Wednesday | #872 → | NINJA | Tricky |
| Nov 7, 2023 | Tuesday | #871 → | LIMIT | Moderate |
| Nov 6, 2023 | Monday | #870 → | TRADE | Easy |
| Nov 5, 2023 | Sunday | #869 → | FLARE | Easy |
| Nov 4, 2023 | Saturday | #868 → | MANIA | Moderate |
| Nov 3, 2023 | Friday | #867 → | ARDOR | Hard |
| Nov 2, 2023 | Thursday | #866 → | UNTIL | Easy |
| Nov 1, 2023 | Wednesday | #865 → | NOISE | Easy |
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.
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1 year ago
Nothing unusual appears in the letters: all five are distinct and familiar. Ordinary letter coverage works well on words like this.
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2 years ago
Nothing unusual appears in the letters: all five are distinct and familiar. Ordinary letter coverage works well on words like this.
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3 years ago
The doubled L raises the difficulty. Once a letter shows up yellow or green, few players try it a second time unprompted.
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
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 8
- Tricky 7
- Hard 3