The Thursday Wordle is up. We have played puzzle #1,965, checked the dictionary and lined up the hints below so you can take as much or as little help as you need.
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 a verb.
- 2VowelsIt has just one vowel.
- 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 P.
- 6Last letterIt ends with H.
- 7MeaningDictionary clue: To burn the surface of, to scorch.
Today's Wordle answer
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PARCH
The answer to Wordle #1,965 for Thursday, November 5, 2026 is PARCH.
Parch (verb): To burn the surface of, to scorch.
In a sentence: “The sun today could parch cement.”
Yesterday's Wordle
Missed it? The answer to Wordle #1,964 on Wednesday, November 4 was NUTTY. 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.
Wed, Nov 4 · #1,964NUTTY
Tue, Nov 3 · #1,963POUCH
Mon, Nov 2 · #1,962SCOOT
Sun, Nov 1 · #1,961VIPER
Sat, Oct 31 · #1,960YAHOO
Fri, Oct 30 · #1,959SLIDE
Thu, Oct 29 · #1,958MOTOR
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 #1,966.