Wordle #1972 Hints & Answer Today, November 12, 2026

Thursday’s Wordle, #1972 for Nov. 12, 2026, from The New York Times (NYT), was edited by Tracy Bennett. It uses one vowel twice, with consonants between the copies. Rules sit on the Wordle page, and the hints follow.

Six clues, gentle to strong

1. Repeat

   the letter A appears twice.
2. Pattern

   consonant, A, consonant, A, consonant.
3. Part of speech

   a noun.
4. Topic

   a unit used to measure how pure a piece of gold is.
5. Sounds like

   a unit for weighing gemstones, though that word is spelled with a C.
6. Last letter

   T, preceded by an A.

7. Still stuck? Reveal the answer one letter at a time:

   1. 1

      K
   2. 2

      A
   3. 3

      R
   4. 4

      A
   5. 5

      T

Guessing tips for today

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A repeated vowel means one guess tells you about only one of its two spots until you retry it. Start with the second spot. Test the opening letter early; it narrows the list. Of eight starters checked against the answer, Stare, Irate and Trace each share three letters with it, yet none puts one in the exact spot. Raise is the only starter of the eight that places a letter correctly.

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Today’s Wordle answer (spoilers)

Ready for the reveal? It is just below.

The answer to Wordle #1972 is Karat.

1. K
2. A
3. R
4. A
5. T

A karat measures gold’s purity in twenty-fourths.

Answer history check (spoilers)

No earlier puzzle in the data for #0 to #1971 used it. The layout of consonant, vowel, consonant, vowel, consonant fits 347 earlier answers, a shape that is not unusual. Only three earlier answers began with K and A: Karma (#13), Kayak (#671) and Kazoo (#730), and just 19 began with K at all. Carat (#663) matches in four places, which makes it the closest earlier answer. Kayak and Karma match in three. A held the second place in 243 earlier answers. The letter K sat in 173 earlier answers, T in 587 and R in 716. Only one earlier answer opened with K and closed with T. Ten shared four letters or more with it, and 1,149 held two vowels from A, E, I, O or U, as this one does.

Wordle #1973 arrives at midnight.

Yesterday's Wordle answer

Wordle #1971 on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026 was Bless. Yesterday's hints and full solution.