Wordle Answer 29 November 2026 (Solved in 5 Guesses)

The Wordle answer for November 29, 2026 is PEONY. Five rows — and the board has a signature you will not see often: the E came back yellow in four different seats across four different rows before it finally went green in the only seat it had never failed.

Below is the complete record for the wordle answer 29 nov 2026: every guess, what each tile established, and how the field fell from 2,316 possible words to one. The chain was produced by running the puzzle's own two-pass scoring engine against the official answer list, so every tile here is reproducible rather than remembered.

Today's Answer and the Final Board

The answer was PEONY, solved in 5 guesses out of the 6 the puzzle allows.

SLATE  ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
DINER  ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
HONEY  ⬛🟨🟨🟨🟩
EBONY  🟨⬛🟩🟩🟩
PEONY  🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Puzzle No. 1,989, a Sunday board. Peony — the garden flower with blooms the size of a fist, and a word that opens with one of the rarer starting letters in the answer list. The solve treated it accordingly: no single row cracked the word open, but four rows in a row each closed exactly the wrong doors, and the last guess walked in through the one nobody had tried.

PEONY is a newer word than the official 2,315-word answer snapshot, so the field opened at 2,316 candidates — the full list plus the answer itself.

The board's signature is the E's grand tour: yellow in the fifth seat, then the fourth, then the third, then the first — four rows, four rejections — with the second seat the only one the E was never turned away from. The final row placed it there, supplied the missing P, and the board went green.

The Full Guessing Chain, Step by Step

Five rows, each one the highest-value row available when it was played.

Guess 1: SLATE — 2,316 down to 273

SLATE came back ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨.

• S, L, A, T grey. Four removals.
• E yellow at position 5. The word holds an E; the fifth seat is not its home.

One yellow and four greys: a measured opening. The field fell from 2,316 to 273, and the E — the letter that would define this whole solve — started its tour of the wrong seats at the very end of the word.

Guess 2: DINER — 273 down to 28

DINER returned ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛.

• D, I, R grey. Three more removals.
• N yellow at position 3. The word holds an N, not in the third seat.
• E yellow at position 4. The E rejected from a second seat.

Two yellows moved the map forward: the E had now been refused from seats five and four, and the N had entered the picture with a refusal of its own. The field dropped from 273 to 28.

Guess 3: HONEY — 28 down to 6

HONEY came back ⬛🟨🟨🟨🟩, and this row drew the word's outline.

• H grey. Removed.
• O yellow at position 2. The word holds an O, not in the second seat.
• N yellow at position 3. The N refused from a second seat.
• E yellow at position 4. The E refused from a third seat.
• Y green at position 5. The word ends in Y — the first locked seat.

Look at what HONEY returned: three misplaced letters and a green ending, every one of them a letter the answer truly holds. The word was now a rearrangement problem — O, N and E needed new seats, Y owned the last one — and only 6 candidates in the list fit that shape.

Guess 4: EBONY — 6 down to 1

EBONY returned 🟨⬛🟩🟩🟩, and it placed three letters at once.

• E yellow at position 1. The E refused from a fourth seat.
• B grey. Removed.
• O green at position 3. The O's home, found.
• N green at position 4. The N's home, found.
• Y green at position 5. Holding.

After four rows the E had been rejected from seats five, four, three and one — every seat except the second. With O, N and Y locked into the back half, the only arrangement left was E in the second seat and an unseen letter in the first. Exactly one candidate in the list fits: PEONY. Six became one.

Guess 5: PEONY — the last row

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

The P — the only letter of the answer that no earlier row had ever contained — took the first seat, the E settled into the one seat it had never failed, and four rows of rejections paid off in a single line.

How the Candidate Pool Collapsed

Three things stand out.

First, the E's tour. A yellow tile is a two-sided fact: the letter is real, the seat is wrong. Collected across rows, the E's four yellows became a map of four closed doors — and when the field is small enough, one open door is as good as a green.

Second, HONEY's near-miss was the real breakthrough. Three misplaced letters plus a locked ending sounds like a frustrating row; in fact it converted the puzzle into a rearrangement exercise. The engine followed it with EBONY, which carries the same four letters O, N, E and Y in rearranged order — placing O and N green, holding Y green, and retesting the E at the front — and the combination resolved everything.

Third, the letter that never showed. Across four rows the board never once displayed a P, and never needed to: with four letters placed and one seat closed by elimination, the P was simply the word the official list had waiting.

Why Four Yellow Seats Can Trap or Free You

A yellow on the same letter in several seats is one of the most information-dense patterns the board produces. Each rejection is permanent — the E can never live in seat five again, nor four, nor three, nor one — so a wandering letter is really a shrinking map. Four rows in, the map had exactly one door left, and placing the letter there required no luck at all.

It helps that the wanderer was E, among the most common letters in English: early rows drag it along whether you plan for it or not. The discipline is in the bookkeeping — noting every seat it has failed, so the final placement is a deduction rather than a hope.

The practical read for your own games: keep a running line of the seats each flagged letter has been rejected from. When a letter has failed everywhere but one seat, stop building guesses around it — the seat is already decided, and your next guess should spend its uncertainty elsewhere, exactly as the P did here.

What You Can Take Away

Track wandering letters seat by seat. The E failed in seats five, four, three and one before going green in seat two — four rows of yellows that ended as a deduction.

A row of misplaced letters is a rearrangement problem. HONEY's three yellows and one green meant the word was built from O, N, E, Y plus one unknown; only 6 candidates survived it.

Test the open seat, keep the locked ones. EBONY held the newly locked O-N-Y and moved the E to the front; the yellow there finished the elimination.

Rare openers arrive by elimination. The P never appeared until the final row — it did not have to.

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