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Octordle #11 (October 15, 2026): answers, best opener and a solver line

The eight words from Thursday, October 15, 2026. Play it first; the answers are folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Octordle #11 was the set of 8 words for Thursday, October 15, 2026. E (4 boards), A (3 boards), L (3 boards), M (3 boards), N (3 boards) and O (3 boards) appear in more than one answer, so a guess that places them earns colour on several boards at once. METER, COUCH, LIMIT, LEAVE and ALLEY repeat a letter, the kind of word that hides from a one-letter-per-slot habit. Of five common openers, CRATE leaves the smallest total field here: 450 possible answers across the 8 boards after one guess, against 736 for SLATE. A plain solver that opens with it and then always guesses the likeliest word on the tightest board finishes in 12 guesses (13 allowed).

Octordle #11 in numbers

Boards8
Letters shared by two or more answers11
Answers with a repeated letter5
Vowels per answer2 · 2 · 2 · 2 · 2 · 1 · 3 · 2
Best of five openersCRATE: 5 green, 8 yellow, 450 candidates left
Solver line12 guesses of 13

Which opener works best on Octordle #11?

For each opener: greens and yellows it would earn across the 8 boards, and how many answers would still fit each board afterwards (smaller is better).

OpenerGreenYellowCandidates left per boardTotal
CRATE5835 · 122 · 62 · 35 · 90 · 25 · 34 · 47450
TRACE5829 · 122 · 62 · 37 · 112 · 25 · 34 · 47468
CRANE68120 · 57 · 3 · 25 · 257 · 7 · 43 · 45557
STARE3930 · 115 · 97 · 222 · 97 · 30 · 24 · 50665
SLATE4872 · 163 · 215 · 215 · 14 · 47 · 2 · 8736
A 12-guess solver line for Octordle #11

Guess 1 is the best opener above; each later guess is the first remaining candidate on the board with the fewest candidates. Boards are numbered 1–8 reading left to right, top to bottom.

  1. CRATE: opener, 450 candidates left in all.

  2. BRAID for board 6 (25 candidates left).

  3. FRANK for board 6 (7 candidates left).

  4. RHINO for board 3 (only one candidate left) — solves board 3.

  5. PRAWN for board 6 (only one candidate left) — solves board 6.

  6. WOMEN for board 2 (2 candidates left) — solves board 2.

  7. METER for board 1 (only one candidate left) — solves board 1.

  8. LIMIT for board 5 (only one candidate left) — solves board 5.

  9. COUCH for board 4 (2 candidates left) — solves board 4.

  10. LEASE for board 7 (2 candidates left).

  11. LEAVE for board 7 (only one candidate left) — solves board 7.

  12. ALLEY for board 8 (only one candidate left) — solves board 8.

Boards solved at guess 7, 6, 4, 9, 8, 5, 11, 12.

Octordle #11 answers

Show the eight words

Board 1: METER · Board 2: WOMEN · Board 3: RHINO · Board 4: COUCH · Board 5: LIMIT · Board 6: PRAWN · Board 7: LEAVE · Board 8: ALLEY

METER WOMEN RHINO COUCH LIMIT PRAWN LEAVE ALLEY

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