Connections hints today (November 10): every group, colour by colour

Spoiler-free hints for all four groups in NYT Connections on November 10, 2026, from yellow to purple, with each group's answer hidden until you want it.

By Hintwise Desk Published 10 Nov 20261 min read

Checked and updated 10 November 2026 at 18:13 UTC

Hintwise Connections hints cover for November 10, 2026 with coloured tiles

Key points

Today's groups run from a yellow about noise to a tricky purple about spelling.
Each group's answer is hidden separately, so you can reveal one at a time.
Several words today are long and unusual, so think about how they are spelled.

Today's Connections has a lot of long, unusual words. Here are hints for each group, easiest first. Reveal only the groups you are stuck on. Everything was checked against the official puzzle for November 10, 2026.

Yellow hint

Think of a noisy fuss or a commotion.

Show the yellow group

Hubbub: BROUHAHA, FOOFARAW, HULLABALOO, KERFUFFLE

Green hint

These are tools a writer uses to play with language, the kind you may have learned in English class.

Show the green group

Literary devices: HYPERBOLE, METONYMY, ONOMATOPOEIA, OXYMORON

Blue hint

These are jobs from centuries ago: a chemist, a tailor's supplier, a copyist and a cart-builder.

Show the blue group

Old-timey occupations: APOTHECARY, HABERDASHER, SCRIVENER, WAINWRIGHT

Purple hint

Ignore the meanings and count the vowels. Each word repeats one vowel many times.

Show the purple group

Words with five of one vowel: ABRACADABRA, BEEKEEPER, INVISIBILITY, PROTOZOOLOGY

Yesterday's Connections answers

Show the November 9 groups

Deceitful scheme: CON JOB, FLIMFLAM, RIP-OFF, SHELL GAME
Jeans descriptors: BOOTCUT, DISTRESSED, LOW-RISE, SKINNY
Things with serrated edges: GRAPEFRUIT SPOON, MINT LEAF, STEAK KNIFE, TAPE DISPENSER
Ending in sea creatures: CARD SHARK, FUN SPONGE, GAMMA RAY, NAVY SEAL

How Connections works

The grid has 16 words that belong to four hidden groups of four. Select four words you think share a link and submit them. A correct group locks in with its colour, and a wrong guess costs one of your four mistakes. Red herrings are part of the design: many words seem to fit two groups, so the trick is finding the group that only works one way.

How to solve today's grid

When a grid is full of long words, look for the group defined by spelling rather than meaning, and set those words aside first. Today, four of the longest words share a vowel pattern, and spotting them clears space for the others.

Also try today's Wordle hints and Strands hints.

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