Wordle today: hints and answer for Sunday, November 1, 2026 (#1,961)

It's Sunday, which means a fresh five-letter puzzle and, for some of us, a streak on the line. Wordle #1,961 is now live for November 1, 2026.

Our read: a gentler one. Common letters, no traps, and a word most players will see once two or three letters are in place.

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.

1. 1Part of speechToday's word is a noun.
2. 2VowelsIt has two different vowels.
3. 3Repeated lettersNo letter repeats, so every tile is a new letter.
4. 4Opening wordsIf you open with SLATE you get 0 green and 1 yellow; with CRANE, 0 green and 2 yellow.
5. 5First letterIt starts with V.
6. 6Last letterIt ends with R.
7. 7MeaningDictionary clue: A venomous snake in the family Viperidae.

Today's Wordle answer

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Yesterday's Wordle

Missed it? The answer to Wordle #1,960 on Saturday, October 31 was YAHOO. 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.

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.

Come back tomorrow for Wordle #1,962. Until then, the rest of the Puzzles desk is one click away in the section menu.