Highest estimated difficulty
UVULA appears less than once per million words in the corpus-based frequency data, so familiarity alone sets a Brutal floor. Its letters add points too, but corpus frequency sets the minimum rating.
Past Answers
Wordle Answers: November 2024
Browse all 30 completed answers from November 2024, with a page for each puzzle's definition, difficulty and solver replay.
November 2024 in review
November 2024 is complete, with 30 puzzles and every date recorded. On the site's word-property scale it was an unusually demanding one. The highest estimated difficulty occurred on Nov 14, 2024 and the lowest on Nov 8, 2024; 13 answers doubled a letter and 14 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.
The hardest and easiest answers
Lowest estimated difficulty
READY 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 8, 2024 to 5 on Nov 14, 2024. 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 demanding month by the estimate. November's 30 answers averaged 1.9 points against 1.3 across the trailing six months, 0.5 points above, outside the normal month-to-month spread of about ±0.3. More 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
13 of 30 answers doubled a letter, above the long-run archive rate of about 31%. That is the pattern that punishes never-repeat guessing: on a stalled board, testing a doubled letter should have come earlier than usual.
14 of 30 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W, above 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 2 (#1,232) doubled O; Nov 5 (#1,235) doubled T; Nov 7 (#1,237) doubled E; Nov 9 (#1,239) doubled L; Nov 10 (#1,240) doubled N; Nov 13 (#1,243) doubled P; Nov 14 (#1,244) doubled U; Nov 17 (#1,247) doubled L; Nov 19 (#1,249) doubled G; Nov 23 (#1,253) doubled L; Nov 24 (#1,254) doubled T; Nov 28 (#1,258) doubled C; Nov 29 (#1,259) doubled P.
Uncommon-letter days: Nov 1 (#1,231) used X; Nov 3 (#1,233) used Z; Nov 4 (#1,234) used V; Nov 7 (#1,237) used V; Nov 9 (#1,239) used W; Nov 12 (#1,242) used W; Nov 14 (#1,244) used V; Nov 15 (#1,245) used K; Nov 16 (#1,246) used V; Nov 23 (#1,253) used J; Nov 24 (#1,254) used W; Nov 25 (#1,255) used W; Nov 26 (#1,256) used W; Nov 28 (#1,258) used K.
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, 2024 | Saturday | #1,260 → | DOGMA | Easy |
| Nov 29, 2024 | Friday | #1,259 → | HIPPO | Moderate |
| Nov 28, 2024 | Thursday | #1,258 → | CHOCK | Hard |
| Nov 27, 2024 | Wednesday | #1,257 → | SLANG | Moderate |
| Nov 26, 2024 | Tuesday | #1,256 → | WITCH | Tricky |
| Nov 25, 2024 | Monday | #1,255 → | BROWN | Tricky |
| Nov 24, 2024 | Sunday | #1,254 → | TWIST | Hard |
| Nov 23, 2024 | Saturday | #1,253 → | JELLY | Hard |
| Nov 22, 2024 | Friday | #1,252 → | PEARL | Easy |
| Nov 21, 2024 | Thursday | #1,251 → | SPINE | Easy |
| Nov 20, 2024 | Wednesday | #1,250 → | NICHE | Easy |
| Nov 19, 2024 | Tuesday | #1,249 → | GOING | Moderate |
| Nov 18, 2024 | Monday | #1,248 → | FRAIL | Easy |
| Nov 17, 2024 | Sunday | #1,247 → | TALLY | Tricky |
| Nov 16, 2024 | Saturday | #1,246 → | VISOR | Tricky |
| Nov 15, 2024 | Friday | #1,245 → | TACKY | Tricky |
| Nov 14, 2024 | Thursday | #1,244 → | UVULA | Brutal |
| Nov 13, 2024 | Wednesday | #1,243 → | PRIMP | Brutal |
| Nov 12, 2024 | Tuesday | #1,242 → | FLOWN | Tricky |
| Nov 11, 2024 | Monday | #1,241 → | STOIC | Easy |
| Nov 10, 2024 | Sunday | #1,240 → | INNER | Moderate |
| Nov 9, 2024 | Saturday | #1,239 → | SWELL | Hard |
| Nov 8, 2024 | Friday | #1,238 → | READY | Easy |
| Nov 7, 2024 | Thursday | #1,237 → | EVENT | Tricky |
| Nov 6, 2024 | Wednesday | #1,236 → | TRULY | Moderate |
| Nov 5, 2024 | Tuesday | #1,235 → | OCTET | Hard |
| Nov 4, 2024 | Monday | #1,234 → | VINYL | Tricky |
| Nov 3, 2024 | Sunday | #1,233 → | BLAZE | Moderate |
| Nov 2, 2024 | Saturday | #1,232 → | SNOOP | Moderate |
| Nov 1, 2024 | Friday | #1,231 → | SIXTH | 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.
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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 7
- Moderate 7
- Tricky 9
- Hard 5
- Brutal 2