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Wordle #1,973

November 13, 2026

By Akash Wadhwani. Checked against two sources, updated 4:00 AM ET.

Nerve, spunk, strength of character. No letter repeats. 3 vowels. It starts with M and ends with E.

Today's Wordle answer, #1,973

MOXIE

What moxie means

Moxie: nerve, spunk, strength of character.

Yesterday's Wordle

Wordle #1,972, November 12, 2026, was KARAT, a unit of fineness or concentration of gold equalling 1/24 part of gold in an alloy.

Wordle is five letters. This one is five words.

One real news sentence a day, twenty to thirty words, something that actually happened. Keep the five words a headline would keep and let the rest go. Here is yesterday's, solved.

At Camden Lock, a 71-year-old woman, Beatrice Millar, took off her shoes, jumped in after a drowning man and saved him by holding his head above water.

Five tries. blue is the right word in the right place, orange is one of the five sitting somewhere else, grey is not one of them. The result beats the process, a name or a job beats a place, and the little words never count.

How you finish decides which sticker you keep.

Got it in oneClean copyFirst editionSo closeSince day one
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