Wordle Answer 15 November 2026 (Solved in 4 Guesses)

The Wordle answer for November 15, 2026 is SNARK. Four rows — and two of those rows are the same guess with a single letter swapped.

Below is the complete record for the wordle answer 15 nov 2026: every guess, what each tile ruled out, and how the field fell from 2,316 possible words to one. Each row comes from running the puzzle's own two-pass scoring against the official answer list, so the tiles are reproducible rather than reconstructed after the fact.

Today's Answer and the Final Board

The answer was SNARK, solved in 4 guesses out of the 6 the puzzle allows.

SLATE  🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛
SHARK  🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩
SPARK  🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩
SNARK  🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Puzzle No. 1,975, a Sunday board. Snark is a mocking, sarcastic remark — the dry jab that lands and then sits there.

SNARK postdates the 2022 snapshot of 2,315 answers, so the field opened at 2,316 candidates rather than 2,315.

Rows two and three are the interesting part. SHARK and SPARK differ in one cell — position 2 — and agree everywhere else: S green at the front, A green in the middle, R and K green at the back. H died in the first of them, P in the second. Two near-identical rows, two dead letters, one seat still open.

The Full Guessing Chain, Step by Step

Guess 1: SLATE — 2,316 down to 24

SLATE came back 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛.

• S green at position 1. The first letter was right on the first row.
• A green at position 3. The inner vowel was right too.
• L, T and E grey. No unclaimed copies of any of the three.

Two greens and three kills, and the pool fell from 2,316 to 24 — a loss of about ninety-nine words in every hundred. Worth pausing on: only two of the five tiles said anything about position. The other three simply removed letters, and removing L, T and E does more work than placing one vowel, because those three sit inside so many five-letter words that whole families of candidates go with them.

What the row could not say was anything about positions 2, 4 and 5.

Guess 2: SHARK — 24 down to 2

SHARK returned 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩.

• S and A holding at positions 1 and 3.
• R green at position 4.
• K green at position 5.
• H grey at position 2.

Four greens in one row, and the board went from 24 words to 2. One seat was left unproven, and the letter offered at it — H — came back grey, so nothing with an H in that seat survived. What remained was a pair of words of the shape S _ A R K.

Guess 3: SPARK — 2 down to 1

SPARK came back 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩.

• S A R K holding at 1, 3, 4 and 5.
• P grey at position 2.

This is the row worth studying, because it was not strictly necessary. With two candidates left, one of them — SNARK — already ranked highest, and typing it would have ended the puzzle a row earlier if it had been right. Instead the row was spent on SPARK: same shape, same four locked letters, one different consonant in the open seat.

The motive is information, not caution. Even a wrong row divides the shortlist, and SPARK was the query that split this one most cleanly. P died. The survivor was not SPARK.

Guess 4: SNARK — the last row

One candidate standing, and the board came back all green.

The letter that finished the word, N, had not been played once before that final row. Position 2 had been tested with H and then with P, and both were eliminated. It took a third letter to fill the only open cell on the board.

How the Candidate Pool Collapsed

Three things stand out.

First, the opener carried almost all of the raw volume. 2,316 to 24 in a single row, with only two letters placed — the rest of that collapse was three letters dying.

Second, the board was effectively solved on row two. Four greens on SHARK left exactly one open seat and a shortlist of two words. Everything after that was bookkeeping.

Third, the bookkeeping was done with a probe rather than a shot at the answer. SPARK bought the elimination of P, and SNARK then had nothing left to prove.

The Rule That Makes Wordle Filtering Work

Rows two and three are a controlled experiment: SHARK and SPARK, identical everywhere except position 2. H and P both came back grey. Neither letter is in the answer.

That part is simple. The subtler part is what a grey tile is actually claiming, and it matters on any board where a guess repeats a letter. A tile's colour is computed against the answer's inventory of that letter, and greens spend that inventory first. The bookkeeping runs in two passes:

1. Mark every position that matches the answer as green, and remove those letters from the answer's inventory.
2. For every position still unmarked, mark yellow if the guess letter still has inventory left, otherwise grey.

So a grey tile is not a statement that the answer lacks the letter. It says the answer has zero unclaimed copies of it at the moment that tile is scored. Guess a word with two copies of a letter the answer holds once, and one copy can come back green while the other comes back grey — in the same row. Both tiles are telling the truth; they are reading from a shelf an earlier tile already emptied.

The rest of the engine follows from the same count. A green locks a position. A yellow sets a minimum: any surviving candidate must contain at least as many copies of that letter as have been declared. A grey sets a maximum: no more copies than have already been declared. Every tile is one of those three constraints, which is why even a row of pure greys is a row that did real work.

What You Can Take Away

A row of greys is not a wasted row. SLATE placed two letters and killed three, and the kills took the field from 2,316 to 24. When an opener dies on common letters, read that as volume, not failure.

Four greens is not a solved board. SHARK left 2 candidates, not 1. The last open seat can hold several words, and the only way to find out which is to test it.

Spending a row on purpose is a real move. SPARK was never going to be the answer; it was a question about one letter. When the shortlist is tiny and the remaining seat is ambiguous, a probe that splits it is often better than a guess that might simply be wrong.

Watch repeated letters on your own board. If one copy of a letter comes back green and another comes back grey in the same row, that is the inventory rule at work, not a glitch.

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