Wordle Answer 30 November 2026 (Solved in 5 Guesses)

The Wordle answer for November 30, 2026 is WORTH. Five rows, and for the last three of them the board was making the same point over and over: four green tiles in the same four seats, with only the first letter changing hands.

Below is the complete record for the wordle answer 30 nov 2026: every guess, what each tile established, and how the field fell from 2,315 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 WORTH, solved in 5 guesses out of the 6 the puzzle allows.

SLATE  ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
BIRTH  ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
FORTH  ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
NORTH  ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
WORTH  🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Puzzle No. 1,990, a Monday board and the last one November gets. Worth — what a thing is worth, and the older sense of value measured in something other than money. The solve is a lesson in endgames: WORTH belongs to a family of words that share their last four letters, and this board walked straight into that family and then back out of it, one member at a time.

WORTH sits inside the official 2,315-word answer snapshot, so the field opened at exactly 2,315 candidates.

Look at the shape of the board before reading the chain. Row 1 puts one green on the fourth seat, and it is still green in row 2, row 3, row 4 and row 5 — the T never moved, not once, in five rows. And rows 3 and 4 are the same row twice: ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 for FORTH, then ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 for NORTH. Five tiles each, identical in every position. When a board serves you the same five tiles twice, the puzzle has stopped being about letters and started being about counting.

The Full Guessing Chain, Step by Step

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

Guess 1: SLATE — 2,315 down to 37

SLATE came back ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛.

• S, L, A, E grey. Four letters with no copies left.
• T green at position 4. The single lock of the opening row.

One green and four greys, and the field fell from 2,315 to 37. That is the whole argument for a strong opener in a single number: the T alone, a common letter in a less common seat, was worth more than ninety-eight percent of the field. From here the word had one fixed tile and four empty ones, and everything else was bookkeeping.

Guess 2: BIRTH — 37 down to 3

BIRTH returned ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩, and it built the back half of the word in one move.

• B, I grey. Two more removals.
• R green at position 3. New lock.
• T green at position 4. Holding.
• H green at position 5. New lock, and the last seat of the word.

Three greens in a row gave a tail of _ R T H, and the field collapsed from 37 to 3. Note what BIRTH did not try to do: apart from B and I it never tested the front of the word at all. The row was there to finish a shape, and it finished it.

Guess 3: FORTH — 3 down to 2

FORTH returned ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩.

• F grey. The first seat is not F.
• O green at position 2. The last blank in the word, filled.
• R, T, H green. The tail, unchanged.

Three candidates were standing, and all three were the same word wearing a different first letter: FORTH, NORTH, WORTH. FORTH was one of them, so guessing it could only do one of two things — win, or eliminate itself. It eliminated itself and left 2.

Guess 4: NORTH — 2 down to 1

NORTH returned ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 — the same five tiles as the row above it.

• N grey. The first seat is not N either.
• O, R, T, H green. Still exactly where they were.

Two rows, two greys in seat 1, one candidate fewer each time. NORTH was the second member of the family. It took its own exit and left one word standing.

Guess 5: WORTH — the last row

One candidate left, and the board turned entirely green.

The W was the last letter of the answer to appear anywhere on the board — four rows went by without it, and it never needed to be guessed. Two eliminations had reduced the first seat to a single option, and the official list supplied the word that starts with it.

How the Candidate Pool Collapsed

Three things stand out.

First, the price of one green. Almost all of the work in this solve happened in row 1: 2,315 to 37 on the strength of a single letter in a single seat. Openers earn their reputation on rows like this, and they earn it through position rather than through vowels — both of SLATE's vowels came back dead, and the only consonant that landed, the T in the fourth seat, is the one that did the work.

Second, BIRTH's triple green. Going from a lone T to a locked _ R T H tail is the move that turned a wide board into a short list. Three greens from one row meant the remaining uncertainty lived entirely in the first two seats, and it never crept back out.

Third, the family. After row 2 the three survivors were FORTH, NORTH and WORTH — one word with three different first letters. Rows 3 and 4 each spent a guess on one member and each came back with the same four greens and one grey. Nothing new was learned about seats 2 to 5, because there was nothing left to learn there. The only information available was "not F", and then "not N".

Why Single-Letter Variants Cost a Row Each

This is the most common endgame in Wordle and the one most often misread. When the survivor list is a set of words that differ by exactly one letter, every candidate you guess can only ever eliminate itself. There is no arrangement to discover, no seat to test and no clever rearrangement to find — F, N and W are three unrelated words that happen to share a tail.

The arithmetic is blunt. With three candidates and five rows still available, grinding is fine: this board finished in five with a row to spare. With six candidates it stops being fine — six candidates and six rows means you must be right on every single guess, which is not a plan, it is a hope. With seven it cannot be done by guessing members of the family at all.

The fix is to stop guessing members and start guessing strangers. A row built from letters that are not in the family can split the set several ways at once: one grey tile can rule out three candidates, where guessing one of them rules out one. The tell is easy to spot — if every candidate on your list differs from every other by a single letter, your next row should contain none of those letters.

For this board it never came to that. Three candidates, five rows, finished. But recognising which endgame you are in is exactly what decides whether the last two rows of a game are a formality or a disaster.

What You Can Take Away

One green can be worth most of the field. SLATE's lone T at position 4 cut 2,315 candidates down to 37.

Build tails before middles. BIRTH locked R, T and H into seats 3, 4 and 5 in a single row and left only the front of the word open.

Name the family early. After row 2 the survivors were FORTH, NORTH and WORTH — not a list of words but a set of single-letter variants, which changes how you should guess at them.

Count candidates against rows. Three candidates with five rows in hand is comfortable. Six candidates with six rows is a coin toss dressed up as a strategy.

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