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Octordle #34 (November 7, 2026): answers, best opener and a solver line

The eight words from Saturday, November 7, 2026. Play it first; the answers are folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Octordle #34 was the set of 8 words for Saturday, November 7, 2026. E (5 boards), L (5 boards), A (4 boards), R (3 boards), K (2 boards) and M (2 boards) appear in more than one answer, so a guess that places them earns colour on several boards at once. PLUMP and QUELL repeat a letter, the kind of word that hides from a one-letter-per-slot habit. QUELL carries one of the rare letters J, Q, X or Z. Of five common openers, SLATE leaves the smallest total field here: 337 possible answers across the 8 boards after one guess, against 619 for STARE. A plain solver that opens with it and then always guesses the likeliest word on the tightest board finishes in 11 guesses (13 allowed).

Octordle #34 in numbers

Boards8
Letters shared by two or more answers10
Answers with a repeated letter2
Vowels per answer1 · 2 · 1 · 2 · 1 · 2 · 3 · 2
Best of five openersSLATE: 6 green, 10 yellow, 337 candidates left
Solver line11 guesses of 13

Which opener works best on Octordle #34?

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
SLATE61039 · 133 · 39 · 8 · 18 · 8 · 31 · 61337
TRACE311240 · 59 · 32 · 9 · 9 · 47 · 45 · 122563
CRATE212240 · 59 · 34 · 9 · 14 · 47 · 45 · 122570
CRANE213257 · 11 · 90 · 9 · 20 · 21 · 49 · 127584
STARE59222 · 63 · 6 · 7 · 115 · 50 · 41 · 115619
An 11-guess solver line for Octordle #34

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. SLATE: opener, 337 candidates left in all.

  2. EMAIL for board 4 (8 candidates left).

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

  4. PLUMB for board 1 (2 candidates left).

  5. PLUMP for board 1 (only one candidate left) — solves board 1.

  6. QUELL for board 8 (only one candidate left) — solves board 8.

  7. FLECK for board 5 (only one candidate left) — solves board 5.

  8. SHIRT for board 3 (only one candidate left) — solves board 3.

  9. GLEAN for board 6 (only one candidate left) — solves board 6.

  10. MANOR for board 2 (only one candidate left) — solves board 2.

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

Boards solved at guess 5, 10, 8, 3, 7, 9, 11, 6.

Octordle #34 answers

Show the eight words

Board 1: PLUMP · Board 2: MANOR · Board 3: SHIRT · Board 4: PEARL · Board 5: FLECK · Board 6: GLEAN · Board 7: AWOKE · Board 8: QUELL

PLUMP MANOR SHIRT PEARL FLECK GLEAN AWOKE QUELL

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