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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 2 vowels (A, E, I, O or U). No letter repeats.
Hint 2: What kind of word it is
It is usually used as a noun.
Hint 3: What it means
A dictionary meaning, with the word hidden: A venomous snake in the family ____.
Bonus hint: A riddle
Small and sly, I coil in the grass, then strike with a warning you should not ignore.
Hint 4: First letter
The word starts with V.
Hint 5: Second letter
The second letter is I.
Hint 6: Last letter
The word ends with R.
Hint 7: Letter pattern
V _ P _ R
Show the answer
The answer to Wordle #1961 is VIPER.
About this puzzle
- Puzzle number: 1961
- Edited by Tracy Bennett
- This is the first time this word has been the answer.
Yesterday's answer (October 31, 2026)
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Wordle deep dive
More about today's puzzle. Everything in this section can include the answer.
Word profile: VIPER
- Part of speech: noun
- Syllables: 2
- How common: about 0.49 uses per million words of English, so it is an uncommon word.
Meanings
- A venomous snake in the family Viperidae.
- (informal) Any venomous snake.
- (figurative) A dangerous, treacherous, or malignant person.
- (slang) A person who smokes marijuana.
Rhymes: sniper, hyper, griper, diaper, riper, wiper, hyper-, striper
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 1932 past answers
- 752 have the same vowels and repeat pattern (hint 1)
- 16 also start with V (hint 4)
- 3 also end with R (hint 5)
- 0 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.
- WIDER (October 13, 2026)
- PROVE (October 7, 2026)
- RIVER (September 30, 2026)
- PRIVY (August 8, 2026)
- GRIPE (August 6, 2026)
- DIVER (July 20, 2026)
- RISER (May 4, 2026)
- WISER (March 25, 2026)
- MISER (December 13, 2025)
- PERIL (November 7, 2025)
How common these letters are in Wordle
- V appears in 7% of past answers
- I appears in 28% of past answers
- P appears in 15% of past answers
- E appears in 47% of past answers
- R appears in 36% of past answers
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