November 2025 in review

November 2025 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 26, 2025 and the lowest on Nov 1, 2025; 8 answers doubled a letter and 9 answers used at least one of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.

The hardest and easiest answers

Highest estimated difficulty

HOVEL 3.5 pts · Nov 26, 2025 · #1,621

HOVEL appears less than once per million words in the corpus-based frequency data, so familiarity alone sets a Hard floor. Its letters add points too, but corpus frequency sets the minimum rating.

Lowest estimated difficulty

MOTEL 0 pts · Nov 1, 2025 · #1,596

MOTEL 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 1, 2025 to 3.5 on Nov 26, 2025. 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 1.5 points on the estimated word-difficulty scale against 1.7 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

8 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.

9 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 (#1,599) doubled E; Nov 9 (#1,604) doubled U; Nov 10 (#1,605) doubled B; Nov 12 (#1,607) doubled E; Nov 23 (#1,618) doubled N; Nov 28 (#1,623) doubled C; Nov 29 (#1,624) doubled F; Nov 30 (#1,625) doubled G.

Uncommon-letter days: Nov 3 (#1,598) used K and W; Nov 4 (#1,599) used V; Nov 11 (#1,606) used Z; Nov 16 (#1,611) used W; Nov 19 (#1,614) used K; Nov 20 (#1,615) used V; Nov 21 (#1,616) used V and W; Nov 22 (#1,617) used K; Nov 26 (#1,621) 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, 2025 Sunday #1,625 → MUGGY Tricky
Nov 29, 2025 Saturday #1,624 → GRUFF Tricky
Nov 28, 2025 Friday #1,623 → COLIC Tricky
Nov 27, 2025 Thursday #1,622 → REMIT Easy
Nov 26, 2025 Wednesday #1,621 → HOVEL Hard
Nov 25, 2025 Tuesday #1,620 → PLEAD Easy
Nov 24, 2025 Monday #1,619 → DOUGH Easy
Nov 23, 2025 Sunday #1,618 → BUNNY Tricky
Nov 22, 2025 Saturday #1,617 → THICK Tricky
Nov 21, 2025 Friday #1,616 → VOWEL Tricky
Nov 20, 2025 Thursday #1,615 → GRAVE Moderate
Nov 19, 2025 Wednesday #1,614 → MAKER Moderate
Nov 18, 2025 Tuesday #1,613 → OPINE Hard
Nov 17, 2025 Monday #1,612 → CLAMP Moderate
Nov 16, 2025 Sunday #1,611 → WIELD Moderate
Nov 15, 2025 Saturday #1,610 → CLUNG Tricky
Nov 14, 2025 Friday #1,609 → LURID Tricky
Nov 13, 2025 Thursday #1,608 → TINGE Tricky
Nov 12, 2025 Wednesday #1,607 → DEUCE Tricky
Nov 11, 2025 Tuesday #1,606 → GIZMO Tricky
Nov 10, 2025 Monday #1,605 → TABBY Tricky
Nov 9, 2025 Sunday #1,604 → FUGUE Tricky
Nov 8, 2025 Saturday #1,603 → ARISE Easy
Nov 7, 2025 Friday #1,602 → PERIL Easy
Nov 6, 2025 Thursday #1,601 → GUISE Easy
Nov 5, 2025 Wednesday #1,600 → SHORT Moderate
Nov 4, 2025 Tuesday #1,599 → VENUE Tricky
Nov 3, 2025 Monday #1,598 → AWOKE Tricky
Nov 2, 2025 Sunday #1,597 → RABID Easy
Nov 1, 2025 Saturday #1,596 → MOTEL 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.

  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
G Most common start (4)
E Most common end (9)
HOVEL 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 8
  • Moderate 5
  • Tricky 15
  • Hard 2

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