Wordle #1,244 hints & answer for November 14, 2024
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Hints for Wordle #1244
What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as a noun.
Vowels and repeats
Three vowels. One letter appears twice.
How it ends
Ends in A.
Where the vowels sit
The vowels are the first, third and fifth letters.
How it starts
Begins with U.
Reveal the answer and explanation
The answer to Wordle #1,244 was
UVULA: Ellipsis of palatine uvula, the fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the soft palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing.
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Why it may be difficult: extremely rare in general English, a repeated letter, uncommon letters.
The word rating describes familiarity and letter features. The solver score below measures how a fixed strategy handles the puzzle; an unusual word can still be easy for that strategy.
How difficult was it for the solver?
Solver pressure: 70/100 (tricky). This is a percentile among past puzzles under the same strategy: 0 is easiest and 100 is hardest for the solver.
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #1,244, measured
This section compares UVULA'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, UVULA measured harder for the solver than about 70% of all 1,952 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. It repeats U; the example solver route takes four turns.
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
AUDIO left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 37 of the 2,384 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, ARISE left 160 candidates, about 4 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 37 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 40 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 59 |
| SALET | SALET | 69 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 97 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 102 |
| STARE | STARE | 132 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 133 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 141 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 160 |
“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,384-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 UVULA → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to UVULA.
The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for November 14, 2024?
- The Wordle answer for November 14, 2024 (puzzle #1244) was UVULA.
- What does UVULA mean?
- UVULA: Ellipsis of palatine uvula, the fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the soft palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing.
- Why was Wordle #1244 tricky?
- UVULA is rated brutal for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: extremely rare in general English, a repeated letter, uncommon letters.