Wordle Hints and Answer Today, #1965 for Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026: Six Clues Before the Reveal

Today’s Wordle from The New York Times (NYT) is puzzle #1965, for Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026, edited by Tracy Bennett. The answer has no repeated letter, and it has just one vowel, which changes how you plan your first guesses. Take the clues one at a time, and only scroll to the last section if you want the answer itself.

How Wordle works

You get six tries to find a five-letter word. After each guess, a green tile means the right letter in the right spot, yellow means the letter is in the word but in another spot, and gray means it is not in the word at all. A letter that appears twice is only marked twice if you guess it twice. Gray tiles matter too.

Six clues, gentle to strong

1. Part of speech

   it is a verb.
2. Topic

   it means to make something very dry, or to become very dry, as from heat or sun.
3. Vowels

   one vowel letter, A, in the second spot, and the word ends in H.
4. Repeated letter

   none. All five letters are different.
5. First letter

   P.
6. Strong nudge

   a long, rainless summer can do this to a lawn: “The sun will ___ the grass.”

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

   1. 1

      P
   2. 2

      A
   3. 3

      R
   4. 4

      C
   5. 5

      H

Guessing tips for today

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With a single vowel, an opener that tests three or four vowels at once shows which one it is in a single row, and the rest of the hunt is consonants. Because no letter repeats, each new guess should use five letters you have not tried yet, so no tile is wasted. Every gray tile rules a letter out for the rest of the game.

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More of today’s puzzles: Connections hints, Strands hints and Pips hints.

Today’s Wordle answer (spoilers)

Stop here if you still want to solve it yourself.

The answer to Wordle #1965 is Parch.

1. P
2. A
3. R
4. C
5. H

Parch means to make very dry, or to become dry, especially from heat. The letters are P, A, R, C and H, each used once.

We checked the answer against the puzzle’s official data before posting. Wordle #1966 arrives at midnight.

Yesterday's Wordle answer

Wordle #1964 on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026 was Nutty. Yesterday's hints and full solution.