Contexto #1518 Hints & Answer Today, November 14, 2026

Contexto #1518 is the game for Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026, and the secret word is a 6-letter noun. Below you get three hints, the 30 words the game ranks nearest the answer in six groups, a table of rank bands and two guesses that go the wrong way. The word itself waits at the bottom. Rank numbers are the game’s own, so if two close guesses confuse you, the scoring notes on our Contexto page explain how to read them.

Hints, from gentle to strong

1. Six letters, two syllables, and one letter appears twice in a row.
2. You would meet it at a table or in a market stall, and the game files nearly everything near it under growing and cooking.
3. It grows underground, and its color gives it away in a crowd of green.

The 30 closest words, grouped by reason

Ranks 2 to 31 are taken from the game’s list for game #1518, and rank 1 is the secret word. The game does not explain its order, so we named the groups ourselves.

Roots and bulbs. onion (4), potato (8), beet (11), garlic (14), radish (16), beetroot (17), turnip (20), parsnip (26), fennel (28). Nine words, the biggest group, all things dug out of the soil.

Leaves and florets. cabbage (5), broccoli (6), cauliflower (7), sprout (9), kale (12), spinach (13), lettuce (29). Seven words from the green end of the plate.

Garden crops. celery (2), zucchini (3), cucumber (10), tomato (15), pea (19), asparagus (22), bean (31). Seven words for stalks, pods and fruits that growers treat as vegetables. Celery takes the first rank after the answer.

Category words. vegetable (18), veggies (21). The game links the answer to its whole family, but only from rank 18 on.

Kitchen work. slice (23), salad (24), chop (25). Three words for what happens on the cutting board.

Strays. apple (27), parsley (30). One fruit and one herb that creep into the top 30.

How the rank bands split

Rank band	Words in the band	Roots and bulbs	Leaves and florets	Garden crops	Category words	Kitchen work	Strays
2 to 10	9	2	4	3	0	0	0
11 to 31	21	7	3	4	2	3	2

Early ranks favor green and leafy things, and roots take over after rank 10. The list keeps going past 31 with pumpkin (32), butternut (33), strawberry (35) and pineapple (36), so even fruit stays in the top 40.

Two wrong turns far from the answer

The first is the animal route. A famous cartoon character comes to mind, but rabbit is rank 462 and bunny is rank 497, close to the bottom of the 500 words the game lists. The second is the health route: vitamin is rank 489, healthy is rank 408 and food is rank 384. The game cares about the thing itself and how it is prepared, not what it does for you. Words such as garden, farm and soil are not in the list at all. All ranks come from the game’s own list for game #1518.

Plan the rest of the day on the November 2026 calendar or the weekly printable. Yesterday’s Contexto is on the game #1517 page.

Today’s Contexto answer (spoilers)

Stop here if you still want to solve it yourself.

The secret word for Contexto #1518 is Carrot.

Yesterday’s word, for game #1517, was Hawk. Game #1519 starts at 11 p.m. Eastern Time (ET).