Wordle #1,604 Answer
November 9, 2025 · Sunday
The answer to Wordle #1,604 was
FUGUE: A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
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Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English, a repeated letter.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #1,604 scores 74/100 for solver difficulty (tricky).
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Wordle #1,604, measured
This section compares FUGUE'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, FUGUE measured harder for the solver than about 74% of all 1,907 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
ADIEU left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 59 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, SALET left 172 candidates, about 3 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 59 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 62 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 62 |
| STARE | STARE | 90 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 90 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 94 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 105 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 108 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 110 |
| SALET | SALET | 172 |
“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 FUGUE → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to FUGUE.
The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for November 9, 2025?
- The Wordle answer for November 9, 2025 (puzzle #1604) was FUGUE.
- What does FUGUE mean?
- FUGUE: A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
- Why was Wordle #1604 tricky?
- FUGUE is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English, a repeated letter.