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Saturday, November 7, 2026. Difficulty: Hard

Wordle #1967 Hints and Answer

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Hints and the answer for Wordle #1967, played on Saturday, November 7, 2026. The hints run from a gentle nudge to the letter pattern, and the answer is kept in the spoiler zone further down.

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Wordle #1967 hints

The hints run from gentle to giveaway. Open one, go back to your game, and only come back if you're still stuck.

  1. How many vowels?Gentle hint

    There are 2 vowels in this answer. It's a verb.

    Words that still fit: 7,529.

    See every 5-letter word with 2 vowels

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  2. Are any letters repeated?Gentle hint

    Every letter is used once.

    4,981 of 12,653 words survive this hint.

    See words without repeated letters

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  3. What does it mean?Helpful hint

    At a dinner party, this is what the guest does who keeps going on about nothing important while everyone else quietly hopes for a pause.

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  4. What's the first letter?Helpful hint

    Start the word with P.

    This leaves 328 words in our list.

    5-letter words starting with P

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  5. What's the last letter?Strong hint

    Finish the word with E.

    Words that still fit: 48.

    5-letter words ending with E

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  6. Show me the patternStrong hint
    PRE

    Three of five are known: PR at the start and E at the end. 15 words in our list fit every hint so far, 10 of them everyday words. See those 15 words in the solver

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Play Wordle #1967

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How three well-known openers scored on #1967

How do some well-known starting words do against this puzzle? This shows the colours each one would get and how many 5-letter words would still be possible after it. It gives away letters, so treat it as a medium-strength hint.

Show SLATE, CRANE and AUDIO against Wordle #1967 (gives away letters)
SLATE
3 green, 0 yellow. 17 words left
CRANE
3 green, 0 yellow. 30 words left
AUDIO
0 green, 1 yellow. 2,158 words left

Counts come from the 12,653 five-letter words in our Wordle solver list, which includes rare words the NYT never picks, so the real field is smaller. On this puzzle, SLATE narrowed things down the most, leaving only 17 possible words.

Wordle #1967 answer

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PRATE

The answer to Wordle #1967 is PRATE.

Meaning: To talk at length in a foolish or annoying way, usually about unimportant things.

In a sentence: My uncle likes to prate about his old car collection every time we visit.

Difficulty
Hard
Word type
verb
Vowels
2

Uncommon, old-fashioned word, though the letter pattern is plain with no repeats.

Puzzle note

SLATE and CRANE together showed R, A, T and E, leaving only the first letter open. One slot left, but a rare word. Before you guess, ask yourself: which less common starting letters still fit this ending?

Sample solve in 6 guesses (spoiler)

Here is one path through #1967, opening with SAINT. Every guess after the first uses all the colours seen so far.

  1. SAINT
    0 green, 2 yellow. 161 words still possible.
  2. CRATE
    4 green, 0 yellow. 6 words still possible.
  3. GRATE
    4 green, 0 yellow. 5 words still possible.
  4. FRATE
    4 green, 0 yellow. 4 words still possible.
  5. ORATE
    4 green, 0 yellow. 3 words still possible.
  6. PRATE
    Solved.
Show matching words (spoiler)

These 19 words all share the first two letters and the last letter of this puzzle's answer, so any of them could be a sensible guess on the way. The answer is highlighted.

  • PRASE
  • PRATE
  • PRESE
  • PREVE
  • PRICE
  • PRIDE
  • PRIME
  • PRISE
  • PRIZE
  • PROBE
  • PROKE
  • PROLE
  • PRONE
  • PRORE
  • PROSE
  • PROVE
  • PRUDE
  • PRUNE
  • PRYSE
Answer statistics (spoiler)
  • 16 of the 120 Wordle answers in our archive up to this puzzle started with P, and 23 ended with E.
  • The least common letter in PRATE, measured across recent answers, is P, which appeared in 31 of 120 answers.
  • All five letters are different.
  • Hint by hint, the list shrinks from 12,653 words to 7,529, 4,981, 328, 48 and finally 15.

Recent Wordle answers

DatePuzzleAnswer
Nov 6#1966DRECK
Nov 5#1965PARCH
Nov 4#1964NUTTY
Nov 3#1963POUCH
Nov 2#1962SCOOT
Nov 1#1961VIPER
Oct 31#1960YAHOO

All past Wordle answers

About Wordle

The New York Times publishes one Wordle a day: five letters, six guesses, and colour clues after each try. Looking back at old answers shows how often double letters and tricky endings turn up, which helps on the next puzzle.

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Wordle #1967 questions

What was the Wordle answer on November 7, 2026?

The answer to Wordle #1967 on November 7, 2026 was PRATE. It means: To talk at length in a foolish or annoying way, usually about unimportant things.

Was Wordle #1967 hard?

We rated it Hard. Uncommon, old-fashioned word, though the letter pattern is plain with no repeats.

What letters were in Wordle #1967?

PRATE has 2 vowels and five different letters. It starts with P and ends with E.

How many words fit the Wordle #1967 pattern?

15 words in our 12,653-word list fit P R _ _ E.

How could Wordle #1967 be solved?

One route: SAINT, then CRATE, then GRATE, then FRATE, then ORATE, then PRATE. That solves it in 6 guesses while keeping every clue.