Wordle in 1 Answers: This Week's Rounds, Hints & Proof
Wordle in 1
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Each round shows one start word with its colors already filled in. Exactly one word fits — work it out, or open a hint.
Hint 1 · Read the tiles
B (1st) and R (2nd) are already in the right spot. E, A and K are in the answer, but not where they sit in BREAK.
Hint 2 · One letter placed
E goes in the 5th spot.
Hint 3 · Another letter
The 3rd letter is A.
Reveal round 1
Of the 2,315 words on the original Wordle answer list, BRAKE is the only one that turns BREAK into exactly these colors.
The closest decoys — 5 words miss by a single tile:
- DRAKE would turn the 1st tile (B) gray instead of green.
- BAKER would turn the 2nd tile (R) yellow instead of green.
- BROKE would turn the 4th tile (A) gray instead of yellow.
Hint 1 · Read the tiles
D (1st) and Z (3rd) are already in the right spot. There is no O, E or N.
Hint 2 · One letter placed
The 2nd letter is I.
Hint 3 · Another letter
The answer ends with Y.
Reveal round 2
Of the 2,315 words on the original Wordle answer list, DIZZY is the only one that turns DOZEN into exactly these colors.
The closest decoys — 32 words miss by a single tile:
- FIZZY would turn the 1st tile (D) gray instead of green.
- FUZZY would turn the 1st tile (D) gray instead of green.
- DADDY would turn the 3rd tile (Z) gray instead of green.
Hint 1 · Read the tiles
L (2nd), O (3rd) and T (5th) are already in the right spot. A and F are in the answer, but not where they sit in ALOFT.
Hint 2 · One letter placed
A goes in the 4th spot.
Hint 3 · Another letter
The answer starts with F.
Reveal round 3
Of the 2,315 words on the original Wordle answer list, FLOAT is the only one that turns ALOFT into exactly these colors.
The closest decoys — 4 words miss by a single tile:
- FLOUT would turn the 1st tile (A) gray instead of yellow.
- BLOAT would turn the 4th tile (F) gray instead of yellow.
- FLORA would turn the 5th tile (T) gray instead of green.
Hint 1 · Read the tiles
T (1st) and R (2nd) are already in the right spot. N is in the answer, but not where it sits in TREND. There is no E or D.
Hint 2 · One letter placed
N goes in the 5th spot.
Hint 3 · Another letter
The 3rd letter is A.
Reveal round 4
Of the 2,315 words on the original Wordle answer list, TRAIN is the only one that turns TREND into exactly these colors.
The closest decoys — 43 words miss by a single tile:
- ARSON would turn the 1st tile (T) gray instead of green.
- TALON would turn the 2nd tile (R) gray instead of green.
- TRACK would turn the 4th tile (N) gray instead of yellow.
Hint 1 · Read the tiles
S (1st), A (3rd) and R (4th) are already in the right spot. M is in the answer, but not where it sits in SMART. There is no T.
Hint 2 · One letter placed
M goes in the 5th spot.
Hint 3 · Another letter
The 2nd letter is W.
Reveal round 5
Of the 2,315 words on the original Wordle answer list, SWARM is the only one that turns SMART into exactly these colors.
The closest decoys — 20 words miss by a single tile:
- ALARM would turn the 1st tile (S) gray instead of green.
- SCARE would turn the 2nd tile (M) gray instead of yellow.
- SPERM would turn the 3rd tile (A) gray instead of green.
Show all 5 Wordle in 1 answers
- BREAK→BRAKE
- DOZEN→DIZZY
- ALOFT→FLOAT
- TREND→TRAIN
- SMART→SWARM
What Is Wordle in 1?
Wordle in 1 is a weekly NYT Games bonus puzzle in which you have to solve a Wordle with your first guess. Each round shows a start word whose green, yellow and gray tiles are already filled in, and exactly one word fits those colors. A set has five rounds and arrives every Wednesday.
It launched on August 26, 2026, as part of the NYT Bonus Puzzles, alongside Connections 3x3, a Strands variant and the Mystery Mini. The full lineup for this week is on our NYT Bonus Puzzles answers page.
The name sums up the challenge. In regular Wordle you collect clues over six guesses; in Wordle in 1 the clues come first, and you get one shot at the answer.
How to Solve Wordle in 1: Four Steps
Every Wordle in 1 round is a small logic problem. Work through the tiles in this order and the answer usually falls out within a minute.
- Lock the greens. Green letters are fixed. Write them into place first, and the answer shrinks to a pattern like L _ _ I C.
- Move every yellow. A yellow letter is in the answer, but never in the spot it holds in the start word. List the spots it can move to.
- Strike the grays. A gray letter is out. Watch repeated letters: if a letter is gray once and green or yellow elsewhere, the answer has exactly as many of it as the colored tiles show.
- Think of ordinary words first. Wordle in 1 answers come from Wordle's own vocabulary, so a common word beats a plural or an obscure one.
Here is a real round from September 23, 2026. The start word was LYRIC, and the tiles came back green, gray, gray, green, green.
The greens give L _ _ I C, and the grays rule out Y and R. LILAC fails because its I would light up yellow, not green. LIMIT fails because its last letter isn't C. That leaves LOGIC, the only word on the list that matches all five tiles.
Why Each Wordle in 1 Answer Is the Only Fit
Every reveal on this page comes with proof. We run each round through a solver that checks the start word against all 2,315 words on the original Wordle answer list and counts how many give exactly the colors on screen.
Across the first 60 Wordle in 1 rounds (August 26 to November 11, 2026), the official answer was the only matching word 59 times out of 60. The exception was BIOME → EMOJI on October 21, 2026. EMOJI isn't on the original list, and no word on that list produces BIOME's colors, so EMOJI was still the only fit.
The solver also finds the decoys: words that miss the pattern by a single tile. In the median round, 17 words come that close. VITAL → OLIVE had 64 of them, the most so far; DUSTY → STUDY and BELOW → ELBOW had none at all.
Each Reveal panel lists the three closest decoys and the tile that rules each one out. If you guessed a decoy, you can see exactly which color you misread.
Wordle in 1 Patterns From Every Round So Far
Twelve weekly sets give 60 rounds and 300 colored tiles. Here is what that data shows about how Wordle in 1 is built.
| Pattern | First 60 rounds | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Answer is an anagram of the start word | 11 rounds | CAPER → RECAP, BELOW → ELBOW |
| All five tiles yellow | 4 rounds | EARTH → HEART, TEACH → CHEAT |
| No green tile at all | 14 rounds | CHILL → LILAC |
| Answer shares only two letters with the start | 2 rounds | HERON → HUMAN |
| Same round used twice | 1 repeat | WHOSE → WORSE (Sept 9 and Sept 30) |
Yellow is the most common tile. Of the 300 tiles, 128 were yellow (43%), 96 green (32%) and 76 gray (25%). So most of the work is moving letters around rather than finding them.
Anagrams are a recurring trick. Nearly one round in five reuses all five letters of the start word, but only four of those eleven show all yellow. In the rest, a letter or two stays in place, which makes the anagram easier to miss.
Some weeks have a theme. The August 26 start words were EARTH, OCEAN, STONE, CORAL and BEACH. On October 7 they were all animals: CORGI, TIGER, ROBIN, HERON and COBRA. The answers themselves don't follow the theme.
Four Wordle in 1 Mistakes (and the Rounds That Caught Them)
Each Wordle in 1 round is designed so that one careless reading of the tiles leads to a decoy. These are the traps that show up most often in past rounds.
- Leaving a yellow where it is. Yellow is the most common tile, and every yellow letter has to move. In CAPER → RECAP all five letters are yellow, so every one of them changes position.
- Missing a double letter. Two yellow Ls in CHILL mean the answer needs two Ls, which is how you get LILAC. CASTS → STASH works the same way with S.
- Misreading a gray duplicate. In BERRY → ZEBRA, one R is green and the other is gray. That doesn't mean "no R": it means exactly one R, and it's already in place.
- Expecting the theme to carry over. On October 7 every start word was an animal, but none of the answers were. Solve each round from its tiles, not from the theme.
If a Wordle in 1 round still won't crack, open Hint 1 on this page. It reads the tiles back in plain English, duplicates included, which fixes most of these slips.
Wordle in 1 vs Regular Wordle
Both games use five-letter words and the same green, yellow and gray feedback. The difference is when you get that feedback.
| Wordle in 1 | Daily Wordle | |
|---|---|---|
| Guesses | One per round | Up to six |
| Clues | Start word with colors shown before you guess | Earned one guess at a time |
| Puzzles per set | Five rounds | One word |
| Schedule | Weekly, every Wednesday | Daily at midnight |
| Access | Subscriber puzzle (launch week was free) | Free |
Wordle in 1 is pure deduction, while daily Wordle is about choosing guesses that collect information. If you want to sharpen that side, our best Wordle starting words guide and Wordle solver cover it. For today's daily puzzle, see Wordle hints today.
When Does Wordle in 1 Come Out?
A new Wordle in 1 set is released every Wednesday with the rest of the NYT Bonus drop. NYT labels each drop by month and week, such as "November Week 2", and that label sits on the ticket at the top of this page.
We update this page as soon as the new drop goes live on Wednesday, US Eastern time. Last week's rounds move into the archive below, so every Wordle in 1 answer stays one click away.
Drops are numbered from the first one on August 26, 2026 (#1), going up by one each Wednesday. That is the number other answer sites use, such as "Wordle in 1 #11" for November 4.
Past Wordle in 1 Answers
Every earlier Wordle in 1 set, newest first. The start words are shown on each row; open a week to see its colors and all five answers.
#11November 4, 2026November Week 1ABOVE · FLING · SPORT · LORIS · LEAFY
- ABOVE→BRAVE
- FLING→FEIGN
- SPORT→UPSET
- LORIS→SOLID
- LEAFY→LOFTY
#10October 28, 2026October Week 4ALERT · CRAVE · CASTS · WITCH · ANNUL
- ALERT→ALTER
- CRAVE→CURVY
- CASTS→STASH
- WITCH→WIDTH
- ANNUL→ENNUI
#9October 21, 2026October Week 3BONNY · BELOW · REPLY · OWNED · BIOME
- BONNY→EBONY
- BELOW→ELBOW
- REPLY→EARLY
- OWNED→ENDOW
- BIOME→EMOJI
#8October 14, 2026October Week 2PRONE · FORCE · SALVO · FLESH · BERRY
- PRONE→SNORE
- FORCE→FLOCK
- SALVO→LASSO
- FLESH→SHELF
- BERRY→ZEBRA
#7October 7, 2026October Week 1CORGI · TIGER · ROBIN · HERON · COBRA
- CORGI→GRACE
- TIGER→TENOR
- ROBIN→BRAWN
- HERON→HUMAN
- COBRA→BACON
#6September 30, 2026September Week 5THROW · BLOCK · CHUMP · WHOSE · BUNCH
- THROW→TORCH
- BLOCK→BROOK
- CHUMP→PLUCK
- WHOSE→WORSE
- BUNCH→CABIN
#5September 23, 2026September Week 4CHILL · LYRIC · BLURB · QUARK · YODEL
- CHILL→LILAC
- LYRIC→LOGIC
- BLURB→LOBBY
- QUARK→GUARD
- YODEL→DOWEL
#4September 16, 2026September Week 3PRISM · BRAID · HOUND · BANJO · VITAL
- PRISM→CRISP
- BRAID→RABID
- HOUND→HANDY
- BANJO→JUMBO
- VITAL→OLIVE
#3September 9, 2026September Week 2WHOSE · GUILT · CAPER · SPARK · PHONY
- WHOSE→WORSE
- GUILT→GLOAT
- CAPER→RECAP
- SPARK→PRANK
- PHONY→NYMPH
#2September 2, 2026September Week 1TEACH · STUNT · WAFER · MANGE · DUSTY
- TEACH→CHEAT
- STUNT→TRUST
- WAFER→FROWN
- MANGE→GLEAM
- DUSTY→STUDY
#1August 26, 2026August Week 1EARTH · OCEAN · STONE · CORAL · BEACH
- EARTH→HEART
- OCEAN→PECAN
- STONE→TENSE
- CORAL→CURLY
- BEACH→BRASH
Wordle in 1 FAQ
What is this week's Wordle in 1 answer?
All five answers are behind the Reveal buttons at the top of this page, after three hints per round. The page updates every Wednesday when NYT releases a new Bonus drop.
Is Wordle in 1 the same as Wordle in One?
Yes. NYT titles the puzzle "Wordle in 1" and spells it "wordle-in-one" in its web address. Both names refer to the same weekly puzzle.
How many rounds are in Wordle in 1?
Five. Every set since August 26, 2026 has had five rounds, each with its own start word and one correct answer.
Is Wordle in 1 free?
The launch week was free for everyone. Since then NYT has marked each drop as a subscriber puzzle. The hints and answers on this page are free to read.
Is a Wordle in 1 answer always on the Wordle answer list?
Almost always: 59 of the first 60 answers were on the original 2,315-word list. The exception was EMOJI on October 21, 2026, which was still the only word that fit its round.
Who edits Wordle in 1?
Tracy Bennett, who also edits daily Wordle, is credited as the editor of every Wordle in 1 set so far.
Can a Wordle in 1 round repeat?
It has happened once. WHOSE → WORSE appeared on September 9 and again on September 30, 2026, with the same colors both times. Every other round in the first twelve sets was different.
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