Good morning, and welcome to Saturday's Wordle. Puzzle #1,974 is live, and as always we work up to the answer gently: a few hints first, a spoiler-shielded reveal at the end.
Our read: a fair, middle-of-the-week kind of puzzle. Nothing unfair, but only one true vowel could cost you a row.
Hints for today's Wordle
Read one at a time and stop as soon as something clicks. The hints get more revealing as you go down.
- 1Part of speechToday's word is an adjective.
- 2VowelsIt has just one vowel, plus a Y doing some of the work.
- 3Repeated lettersNo letter repeats, so every tile is a new letter.
- 4Opening wordsIf you open with SLATE you get 0 green and 1 yellow; with CRANE, 0 green and 3 yellow.
- 5First letterIt starts with R.
- 6Last letterIt ends with Y.
- 7MeaningDictionary clue: Sexually aroused; full of lust.
Today's Wordle answer
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RANDY
The answer to Wordle #1,974 for Saturday, November 14, 2026 is RANDY.
Randy (adjective): Sexually aroused; full of lust.
In a sentence: “If you're feeling randy, give me a call and I'll come round and give you some hot lovin'.”
Yesterday's Wordle
Missed it? The answer to Wordle #1,973 on Friday, November 13 was MOXIE. Our hints and write-up for yesterday's puzzle are still up if you want to replay it.
Recent Wordle answers
Wordle never repeats a past answer, so the last week of solutions is a small but real edge: anything below is off the table.
Fri, Nov 13 · #1,973MOXIE
Thu, Nov 12 · #1,972KARAT
Wed, Nov 11 · #1,971BLESS
Tue, Nov 10 · #1,970TRUCE
Mon, Nov 9 · #1,969LOAMY
Sun, Nov 8 · #1,968FIRST
Sat, Nov 7 · #1,967PRATE
How Wordle works
You have six guesses to find a five-letter word. After each guess the tiles turn green for a right letter in the right place, yellow for a right letter in the wrong place and grey for a letter that is not in the word. One puzzle is published a day, and it changes at midnight in your local time zone; today's was edited by Tracy Bennett at The New York Times.
A good opener uses common letters and at least two vowels: SLATE, CRANE, AUDIO and ADIEU are popular for a reason. Treat your second guess as a second probe rather than an attempt to win, and remember that letters can repeat.
Wordle resets at midnight in your local time zone, so a new puzzle is never far away. We will be back tomorrow with hints for #1,975.