Wordle #1,241 Answer
November 11, 2024 · Monday
The answer to Wordle #1,241 was
STOIC: Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering.
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Why it may be easier: five different letters, at least two vowels and none of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #1,241 scores 20/100 for solver difficulty (easier for the solver).
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #1,241, measured
This section compares STOIC's solver-difficulty percentile, first-guess results for ten familiar openers, and opt-in player reports. Each number identifies its dataset.
Solver difficulty, as a percentile
This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, STOIC measured harder for the solver than about 20% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is easier for the solver. CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave about 71.3 possible answers.
Solver pressure ranks the answer within the pool; it does not measure player performance. The opener table compares first-guess results, and the contributed ratings report player results.
CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU benchmark
TRACE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 9 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, ADIEU left 119 candidates, about 13 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| TRACE | TRACE | 9 |
| STARE | STARE | 22 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 23 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 23 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 24 |
| SALET | SALET | 26 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 39 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 47 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 56 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 119 |
“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,374-word working answer pool whose feedback would match that opener exactly. This is pattern arithmetic, not a simulation. A smaller number means the opener left fewer possible answers after the first guess. It does not describe later turns.
Contributed player ratings
Not enough contributed games to publish player figures for this puzzle. Per-puzzle numbers appear only after at least 10 opt-in games arrive. See how the Observatory collects and publishes player data →
See the solver's route to STOIC → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to STOIC.
The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for November 11, 2024?
- The Wordle answer for November 11, 2024 (puzzle #1241) was STOIC.
- What does STOIC mean?
- STOIC: Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering.
- Why was Wordle #1241 tricky?
- STOIC is rated easy for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be easier: five different letters, at least two vowels and none of Q, Z, X, J, K, V or W.