Wordle #1,960 hints & answer for October 31, 2026
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Hints for Wordle #1960
What kind of word
Wiktionary lists it as a noun, and also as an interjection.
What it means
“A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.
Where the vowels sit
The vowels are the second, fourth and fifth letters.
The middle letter
The middle letter is H.
How it starts
Begins with Y.
Reveal the answer and explanation
The answer to Wordle #1,960 was
YAHOO: A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.
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: a repeated letter.
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 #1,960, measured
This section compares YAHOO'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, YAHOO measured harder for the solver than about 70% of all 1,964 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. It repeats O; CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave a large group.
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 15 of the 2,389 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, ADIEU left 290 candidates, about 19 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 15 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 69 |
| SALET | SALET | 86 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 94 |
| STARE | STARE | 133 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 134 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 142 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 142 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 161 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 290 |
“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,389-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
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Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for October 31, 2026?
- The Wordle answer for October 31, 2026 (puzzle #1960) was YAHOO.
- What does YAHOO mean?
- YAHOO: A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.
- Why was Wordle #1960 tricky?
- YAHOO is rated moderate for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter.