Wordle #887 Answer
November 23, 2023 · Thursday
The answer to Wordle #887 was
QUEEN: The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
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, uncommon letters.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #887 scores 72/100 for solver difficulty (tricky).
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #887, measured
This section compares QUEEN'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, QUEEN measured harder for the solver than about 72% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is tricky. It repeats E; 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 23 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, SLATE left 170 candidates, about 7 times as many.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 23 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 62 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 94 |
| SALET | SALET | 108 |
| STARE | STARE | 119 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 119 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 123 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 123 |
| TRACE | TRACE | 126 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 170 |
“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 QUEEN → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to QUEEN.
The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for November 23, 2023?
- The Wordle answer for November 23, 2023 (puzzle #887) was QUEEN.
- What does QUEEN mean?
- QUEEN: The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
- Why was Wordle #887 tricky?
- QUEEN is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: a repeated letter, uncommon letters.