Wordle today: hints and answer for Saturday, October 31, 2026 (#1,960)

Good morning, and welcome to Saturday's Wordle. Puzzle #1,960 is live, and as always we work up to the answer gently: a few hints first, a spoiler-shielded reveal at the end.

Our read: a tough one. Watch out for a repeated letter and little help from the usual opening words; this is a day to slow down and use your fourth guess carefully.

Hints for today's Wordle

Read one at a time and stop as soon as something clicks. The hints get more revealing as you go down.

1. 1Part of speechToday's word is a noun.
2. 2VowelsIt has two different vowels, plus a Y doing some of the work.
3. 3Repeated lettersOne letter appears twice, so do not rule a letter out too early.
4. 4Opening wordsIf you open with SLATE you get 0 green and 1 yellow; with CRANE, 0 green and 1 yellow.
5. 5First letterIt starts with Y.
6. 6Last letterIt ends with O.
7. 7MeaningDictionary clue: A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.

Today's Wordle answer

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Yesterday's Wordle

Missed it? The answer to Wordle #1,959 on Friday, October 30 was SLIDE. Our hints and write-up for yesterday's puzzle are still up if you want to replay it.

Recent Wordle answers

Wordle never repeats a past answer, so the last week of solutions is a small but real edge: anything below is off the table.

How Wordle works

You have six guesses to find a five-letter word. After each guess the tiles turn green for a right letter in the right place, yellow for a right letter in the wrong place and grey for a letter that is not in the word. One puzzle is published a day, and it changes at midnight in your local time zone; today's was edited by Tracy Bennett at The New York Times.

A good opener uses common letters and at least two vowels: SLATE, CRANE, AUDIO and ADIEU are popular for a reason. Treat your second guess as a second probe rather than an attempt to win, and remember that letters can repeat.

That is the puzzle for Saturday. If it broke your streak, console yourself that it broke a lot of streaks; if it did not, see you tomorrow for #1,961.