Contexto #1519 Hints & Answer Today, November 15, 2026

Contexto #1519 is the game for Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026, and the secret word has 5 letters. Today’s list has three hints, a ladder of ranks 2 to 10, the 30 words the game puts nearest the answer in groups, and two guesses that land far away. The word waits at the bottom. Because today’s list is full of small everyday words, the reading notes on our Contexto page help if a rank looks odd.

Hints, from gentle to strong

1. Five letters, one syllable, and no letter shows up twice.
2. The word works as a noun, a verb and an adjective, so a first guess in the wrong sense can land cold.
3. A speaker puts it out and an ear takes it in; a room with none of it feels empty.

Near-miss ladder: ranks 2 to 10

Rank 1 is the secret word. Rank 2 is a form of the answer ending in -ing, which we leave unnamed here. The other eight places each read close for a different reason.

Rank	Guess	Part of speech	Why it reads close, and why it is not the word
3	hear	verb	The action of taking the word in, so the answer is what gets heard.
4	loud	adjective	A quality the answer can have, not the thing itself.
5	noise	noun	A near-twin in meaning, but it carries a harsh tone the answer lacks.
6	music	noun	One shaped kind of the answer.
7	really	adverb	Filler that sits beside the answer in phrases of opinion.
8	audio	noun	The technical label for what a speaker plays.
9	listen	verb	What a person does, so it names the reader and not the thing.
10	make	verb	A plain verb that often comes right before the answer in everyday phrases.

Six of the eight are about ears or playback, while two (really and make) are plain connecting words. The game groups them because they turn up in the same sentences, not because they mean the same.

The 30 closest words, grouped by reason

Ranks 2 to 31 come from the game’s list for game #1519, and rank 1 is the secret word. The game does not explain its order, so we named the groups ourselves. The rank 2 form is left out below.

Hedge words. really (7), kind (15), pretty (16), though (21), rather (22), even (24), bit (25), way (29), sure (30). Nine words, the biggest group, none of them a thing you can point at.

Hearing and noise. hear (3), loud (4), noise (5), audio (8), listen (9). Five words about the ear.

Impressions. seem (14), better (17), weird (20), well (28), amaze (31). Five words for how something strikes you.

Music. music (6), tune (11), bass (26), recording (27). Four words from the playlist.

Plain connectors. make (10), thing (13), thought (18), like (23). Four short words with no theme of their own.

Voice. voice (12), vocal (19). The human source of the answer.

Two wrong turns far from the answer

The first is the science route. Physics classes suggest wave, which is rank 250, and vibration, which is rank 235. The game cares more about how people talk about the word than how it travels. The second is the sensible-judgment meaning, as in a plan that holds up: reason is rank 98, fine is rank 208 and wise is rank 336. Deep (363) and light (435) fall even lower, and words such as safe, healthy, solid, sea and ocean are not among the 500 the game lists. All ranks come from the game’s own list for game #1519.

Plan the rest of the day on the November 2026 calendar or the weekly printable. Yesterday’s Contexto is on the game #1518 page.

Today’s Contexto answer (spoilers)

Stop here if you still want to solve it yourself.

The secret word for Contexto #1519 is Sound.

Yesterday’s word, for game #1518, was Carrot. Game #1520 starts at 11 p.m. Eastern Time (ET).