11 Letter Wordle
Guess the hidden eleven-letter word in six tries. Unlimited rounds, no signup.
What Is 11 Letter Wordle?
11 Letter Wordle is a free, unlimited word puzzle where you guess a hidden eleven-letter word in six tries, using the same green, yellow and gray clues as the classic game.
In 11 Letter Wordle, green means the right letter in the right square. Yellow means the letter is in the word but somewhere else, and gray means it is not in the word at all.
The answer pool holds 2,950 common eleven-letter words, and the game accepts 37,539 guesses. With no daily cap, 11 Letter Wordle unlimited play is the default: one word ends and the next begins.
If you searched for “Wordle 11 letters”, this is that game, and the longest length on this site. It runs in any modern browser on a phone or a computer, with no signup and no app.
How to Play 11 Letter Wordle in 5 Steps
The rules of 11 Letter Wordle are the classic ones. What changes is how much each guess tells you, and how long the words are.
Step 1: Open with a word that covers E, I, T, N and A
Type any valid eleven-letter word and press Enter. These five letters appear in almost every answer, so testing all of them at once tells you the most.
Step 2: Read all eleven tiles as clues
Each tile turns green, yellow or gray. Read the row as a set of rules: which letters go where, which belong somewhere else, and which are out.
Step 3: Lock greens, move yellows, drop grays
Keep green letters in place and try yellow letters in new squares. A gray tile can also mean the word holds fewer copies of a letter than you typed.
Step 4: Solve within six guesses
You get six tries, as with every length on this site. One good guess usually leaves only a handful of words, so the rest is about finding them.
Step 5: Start a new round instantly
Win or lose, press New Game for a fresh eleven-letter word. There is no countdown and no waiting until tomorrow.
Words Inside Words: The Five-Letter Answers Hiding in 11 Letter Wordle
Nearly one in three 11 Letter Wordle answers has a classic five-letter answer hiding inside it. RATIO alone hides in 43 of them.
We searched all 2,950 eleven-letter answers for the 2,295 words in our classic five-letter Wordle pool, letter for letter. 426 different five-letter answers turned up at least once.
The five-letter words that hide most often
RATIO leads with 43 answers, then INTER with 34 and GRAPH with 29. Some sit at the front, some at the end and some in the middle:
- INTERESTING opens with INTER.
- COMFORTABLE closes with TABLE.
- CORPORATION keeps RATIO in the middle.
Why RATIO turns up so often
RATIO is the core of a whole word family. Of the 43 answers that hide it, 36 end in -RATION or -RATIONS: CORPORATION, INTEGRATION, PREPARATION and COOPERATION.
Those are -ATION words, and -ATION or -ATIONS alone ends 7.7% of every answer in 11 Letter Wordle. So once -ATION is green at the end, an R in front of it is worth testing: that completes RATIO.
Use the words you already know
This is good news if you play the five-letter game. You already know RATIO, INTER and GRAPH as whole answers, so you can spot them as parts.
When a row shows T, A, B, L and E in a run, think of -TABLE endings like COMFORTABLE. When I, N, T, E and R sit together at the front, try an INTER- word. One familiar piece fixes five squares at once.
Our five-letter word lists are a quick way to refresh those pieces before a round of 11 Letter Wordle.
How we counted
For each answer we slid a five-letter window along the word and checked every stop against the classic pool. A five-letter word counts once per answer, even if it appears twice. INTROVERTED holds the record with four: INTRO, TROVE, ROVER and OVERT.
The share barely moves with length. From six to eleven letters it stays between 23% and 33%:
| Word length | Answers hiding a five-letter answer |
|---|---|
| 6 letters | 30.5% |
| 7 letters | 23.6% |
| 8 letters | 29.5% |
| 9 letters | 32.7% |
| 10 letters | 30.9% |
| 11 letters | 31.7% |
How 11-Letter Wordle Answers Are Built
11 Letter Wordle answers are rarely random strings of letters. Most are a root word plus a familiar ending, and the endings come in families.
Two endings cover nearly one answer in four
-ING ends 12.5% of answers and -TION(S) 11.2%: 23.7% between them.
The eight families in the chart cover 42.3% of the pool. Count plain -S and -ED as well, and 72.9% of 11 Letter Wordle answers end in a pattern you can test early.
Nearly every answer repeats a letter
98.0% of eleven-letter answers contain a repeated letter, against 32.3% in classic Wordle. The average answer uses only 8.5 different letters.
So about 2.5 of the eleven squares repeat a letter already in the word. Once most of it is placed, look for the double.
Prefixes are worth a guess too
At the front, CON starts 4.1% of answers, DIS 2.6% and PRO 1.9%. By the first two letters alone, CO, RE and IN lead with 7.7%, 6.4% and 6.2%.
When the first squares are still gray, a guess that tries a common prefix and a common ending tests both ends of the word at once.
11 Letter Wordle vs 10 Letter and Classic Wordle
How does 11 Letter Wordle compare with its neighbors? These figures come from this site's own word lists.
| Feature | 11 Letter | 10 Letter | Classic 5-Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guesses allowed | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Answer pool | 2,950 | 2,969 | 2,295 |
| Accepted guesses | 37,539 | 45,872 | 11,367 |
| Answers left after a strong opener | 2.3 | 2.8 | 60.5 |
| Games pinned down by the opener | 52.0% | 41.3% | 1.2% |
| Solver's average guesses | 2.31 | 2.39 | 3.60 |
| Answers with a repeated letter | 98.0% | 95.1% | 32.3% |
| Answers hiding a five-letter answer | 31.7% | 30.9% | — |
Each extra letter adds information per guess and asks more of your vocabulary. In 11 Letter Wordle, a strong opener pins the answer down in 52.0% of games, but you still have to think of the word.
If eleven letters feel like a lot, warm up with 10 Letter Wordle or 9 Letter Wordle first.
The Best 11-Letter Starter Words (Data-Backed)
Five letters, E, I, T, N and A, appear in 99.9% of our 2,950 eleven-letter answers. At eleven letters A joins the top five and R drops out.
| Rank | Starter word | Top letters covered | Avg answers eliminated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PERCOLATING | AEINT | 99.92% |
| 2 | PROSECUTING | EINT | 99.92% |
| 3 | CAMPGROUNDS | AN | 99.91% |
| 4 | SECONDARILY | AEIN | 99.91% |
| 5 | PRECAUTIONS | AEINT | 99.91% |
| 6 | CUSTOMARILY | AIT | 99.91% |
| 7 | PERSONALITY | AEINT | 99.91% |
| 8 | SPECULATING | AEINT | 99.91% |
| 9 | SPECULATION | AEINT | 99.91% |
| 10 | FORECASTING | AEINT | 99.91% |
Why PERCOLATING comes out on top
PERCOLATING leaves an average of 2.3 answers after one guess, the lowest of any eleven-letter word with no repeats. It tests all five top letters, plus P, R, C, O, L and G.
It also ends in -ING, the most common ending family at 12.5%, so one guess tests the last three squares too.
Coverage is not everything. CAMPGROUNDS ranks three with only two of the top letters, because rarer letters split long words well too.
Easier-to-remember alternatives
PRECAUTIONS, PERSONALITY and SPECULATING also cover all five top letters and trail the leader by a fraction of a percent. Any word in the top ten is a strong 11 Letter Wordle opener, so pick one you will remember.
Method
For each candidate opener, we grouped all 2,950 answers by the color pattern it would produce and averaged the size of the group each answer falls into. Fewer words left means a higher elimination rate; the pool-wide mean is 99.79%.
Playing the five-letter game instead? See our best starting words for classic Wordle.
Watch an 11 Letter Wordle Get Solved
Here is a real round of 11 Letter Wordle, played the way a person would. The hidden word is PHOTOGRAPHY.
- 01 PERCOLATING. P turns green in square one and O turns green in square five, and R, A, T and G come back yellow; E, C, L, I and N are gray. Only two answers in the pool fit: PHOTOGRAPHY and PHOTOGRAPHS.
- 02 PHOTOGRAPHS. Every square turns green except square eleven. A coin flip between two words, and this time the plural lost.
- 03 PHOTOGRAPHY. Solved in three guesses, with three to spare.
Our solver would have guessed PHOTOGRAPHY second. With two words left, either choice is a fair bet; it simply tries the more common word first.
Spotting the word family
After the opener, the clues read like this:
P _ _ _ O _ _ _ _ _ _ has R, A, T and G · not E C L I N
Start with the yellows. G, R and A, with a P already in hand, spell most of GRAPH, the third most common hidden word in the chart above.
The P in square one and the O in square five suggest PHOTO at the front. Put the two five-letter words together and ten squares are filled: PHOTOGRAPH_.
The last square is an ending, -Y or -S. That is how 11 Letter Wordle rewards a five-letter player: two words you already know build most of the answer.
6 Tips to Win More 11 Letter Wordle Games
- 01
Cover E, I, T, N and A first
At least one of these letters is in 99.9% of answers. A starter like PERCOLATING tests all five in one go. - 02
Hunt for a five-letter word inside
31.7% of answers hide one, led by RATIO, INTER and GRAPH. Spot one and five squares fall into place. - 03
Test -ING and -TION(S) early
Together they end 23.7% of answers. Confirm the ending and the part left to find gets much shorter. - 04
Expect repeated letters
98.0% of answers have at least one, and the average answer uses only 8.5 different letters. - 05
Think in word families
Families like -GRAPHY, -RATION and -MENT share most of their letters. Once you see the family, list its members and match them to the clues. - 06
Split the family before you guess the answer
If three or more words differ in just one or two squares, use a guess that tests those squares together. With only two left, just guess one.
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Finished a round of 11 Letter Wordle? Every other length keeps the six-guess rule too, and all of them are listed in all Wordle games.