Wordle Answer 7 November 2026 (Solved in 5 Guesses)

The Wordle answer for November 7, 2026 is PRATE. It took five guesses, and the board has an odd trait worth pausing on: not a single yellow tile appeared all day. Every tile that was not green was grey, which means every letter was settled in one verdict — either it sat where it belonged, or the word held zero copies of it.

Below is the complete record for the wordle answer 7 nov 2026: every guess, what each tile actually ruled out, and how the field fell from 2,316 possible words to one. The board was played on our own free daily Wordle, so the tiles below are the tiles the game returned.

Today's Answer and the Final Board

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

SLATE  ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
GRATE  ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
CRATE  ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
IRATE  ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
PRATE  🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Puzzle No. 1,967, a Saturday board, and to prate is to talk at length about trivial things — to chatter, to go on and on without saying much. It is an old-fashioned but entirely real word, a close cousin of prattle, and it has been part of English for centuries.

One bookkeeping note before the chain: PRATE postdates the official 2,315-word answer list snapshot that solvers work from, so today's field was 2,315 plus today's word — 2,316 candidates at the opening row. That is why the funnel below starts at 2,316 and not 2,315.

The shape of the board is almost a cartoon: five rhyming words in a row. SLATE, GRATE, CRATE, IRATE, PRATE — the entire game was spent inside one corner of the English lexicon. Once the opener painted positions 3, 4 and 5 green, the puzzle stopped being "find the word" and became a single question: which letter opens a word ending in -ATE?

The Full Guessing Chain, Step by Step

Five rows. Each one was the highest-scoring candidate on the field at the moment it was played.

Guess 1: SLATE — 2,316 candidates down to 7

SLATE came back ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩.

• A, T and E green at positions 3, 4 and 5. Three greens on the very first row — the tail of the word was nailed immediately.
• S and L grey. The answer holds no copies of either.

This is the opener doing far more than its usual job. All 2,316 remaining candidates were scored by letter-position frequency, and SLATE carried the highest information value of the field. Three trailing greens are rare, and the pool collapsed from 2,316 to 7 — all but about three words in every thousand eliminated before the second row.

Guess 2: GRATE — 7 down to 3

GRATE returned ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩.

• R green at position 2. Four of the five seats are now locked: _RATE.
• G grey. Another letter crossed off entirely.

With positions 2 through 5 fixed, a guess can only ask one question: who goes first? GRATE was the highest scorer among the 7 survivors, and its answer was no. The pool fell from 7 to 3.

Guess 3: CRATE — 3 down to 2

CRATE came back ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 — the same pattern, a different first letter.

• R, A, T and E green, again. Confirmation, not news.
• C grey. Another candidate for the opening slot, struck out.

Seven candidates had become 3, and CRATE — again the top scorer — split them: 3 down to 2. The rhythm of the endgame was set. One probe, one letter tested, one small cut.

Guess 4: IRATE — 2 down to 1

IRATE returned ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩.

• R, A, T and E green, third row running.
• I grey. A vowel joins G and C on the list of rejected openers.

After four rows, the board had tested G, C and I in the opening slot and heard "no" three times. With the pool at exactly 2 and one of them eliminated, one candidate remained from the original field of 2,316.

Guess 5: PRATE — confirmation

One candidate standing, so the last row is a receipt. PRATE came back all green — five tiles in their true homes — and the puzzle closed in five.

Worth noting: P was never played before this row. No guess contained it, so no tile ever said anything about it. The word was not found by testing P; it was found by crossing out G, C and I and letting the arithmetic point at what was left.

How the Candidate Pool Collapsed

Three things stand out.

First, the opener was almost the whole game: 2,316 down to 7 in a single row, without testing a single letter outside those five tiles. Leaving only about three words in every thousand standing before the second row is what three well-placed greens are worth on a frequency-scored field.

Second, the endgame probes were tiny but never wasted. GRATE, CRATE and IRATE each tested exactly one new first letter on a field of single digits, and each row still removed a third or more of what was left: 7 to 3, 3 to 2, 2 to 1. On a small field, one fresh grey is never just decoration.

Third, the flat tail is normal. Once IRATE left exactly one survivor, the fifth row was paperwork. The funnel had already done the work; the closing row only proves it.

The Rule That Makes Wordle Filtering Work

A board with no yellow tiles is a clean demonstration of the machinery underneath. A grey tile means the answer has zero unclaimed copies of that letter — not "the letter is definitely gone" in some vague sense, but a precise claim about counts.

The bookkeeping runs in two passes:

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

Yellow never appeared today because the word never hid a letter in the wrong seat. Every grey here — S, L, G, C, I — meant the answer held no copies at all, since no earlier green or yellow had ever claimed a share of any of them. Read each tile as a statement about counts and positions, and the board becomes arithmetic.

That is the whole filtering engine. The rest — which word to spend next — is scoring the survivors by how often their letters sit in each position across the field, weighting position heavily, and spending the word that asks the most still-unasked questions. Today, after SLATE, the only unasked question was the first letter, so the solver spent GRATE, then CRATE, then IRATE until the question had an answer.

What You Can Take Away

Lock what is proven; cycle what is not. Three trailing greens on row one could tempt a player into re-arranging the ending. The solver never touched A, T or E again. Every later guess varied exactly one thing — the first letter — because that was the only unknown left.

Elimination is the strategy, not the fallback. The winning letter P appeared in exactly one row of today's board — the last one. When the candidate count reaches one, you do not need to have guessed the answer; you need only to have asked every other question.

A yellow-free board is a speed signal. If your greys are piling up with no yellows, the word is not shuffling letters between seats — each verdict is final. Keep testing fresh letters rather than re-seating old ones.

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