Stuck on Wordle #1975? Open the hints one at a time. Each one gives away a little more, and the answer is last.
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Very hard Difficulty: very hard, because it is not an everyday word and it uses some less common letters.
Hint 1: Vowels and repeated letters
The word has 1 vowel (A, E, I, O or U). No letter repeats.
Hint 2: What kind of word it is
It is usually used as a noun or a verb.
Hint 3: What it means
A dictionary meaning, with the word hidden: an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm.
Bonus hint: A riddle
A velvet jab, smiling while it pokes fun.
Hint 4: First letter
The word starts with S.
Hint 5: Second letter
The second letter is N.
Hint 6: Last letter
The word ends with K.
Hint 7: Letter pattern
S _ A _ K
Show the answer
The answer to Wordle #1975 is SNARK.
About this puzzle
- Puzzle number: 1975
- Edited by Tracy Bennett
- This is the first time this word has been the answer.
Yesterday's answer (November 14, 2026)
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Wordle deep dive
More about today's puzzle. Everything in this section can include the answer.
Word profile: SNARK
- Part of speech: noun, verb
- Syllables: 1
- How common: about 0.11 uses per million words of English, so it is an uncommon word.
Meanings
- an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm.
- To express oneself in a snarky fashion.
- (literary) The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search.
- (particle physics) A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.
- (mathematics) A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point.
Rhymes: stark, mark, dark, remark, spark, monarch, bark, benchmark
How would your starting word have done?
Here is the first-row result today's answer would give for some popular opening words.
How much each hint narrows it down
Using the list of past Wordle answers as the word list, this is how many words would still fit after each hint.
- All 1945 past answers
- 287 have the same vowels and repeat pattern (hint 1)
- 82 also start with S (hint 4)
- 17 also end with K (hint 5)
- 7 also match the letter pattern (hint 6)
Past answers that look like today's
Earlier answers that share at least three letters in the same spots, or four of the same letters.
- SHACK (October 4, 2026)
- SONAR (July 28, 2026)
- SNORE (April 22, 2026)
- STANK (February 20, 2026)
- QUARK (January 11, 2026)
- STACK (October 11, 2025)
- STORK (August 5, 2025)
- PRANK (June 17, 2025)
- SPARE (April 8, 2025)
- SPARK (March 19, 2025)
How common these letters are in Wordle
- S appears in 26% of past answers
- N appears in 24% of past answers
- A appears in 40% of past answers
- R appears in 36% of past answers
- K appears in 9% of past answers
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