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This list has 9 Wordle guesses; 3 are possible answers. The calculator compared 14,786 Wordle guesses against those 3 answers. Possible-answer status helps narrow a puzzle, but does not predict which word Wordle will choose.

Past Wordle answers: SWIRL (August 30, 2021); TWIRL (January 3, 2024); WHIRL (July 12, 2023).

Top-ranked splitter SWIRL
Average remaining
1.0
Worst branch
1
Information
1.58 bits

It fits this list and can win immediately, while still splitting the alternatives well.

Hard Mode SWIRL keeps every stated clue.

It is legal under the clues represented on this page. If you also know where a yellow letter cannot go, check that extra detail in the full Solver.

No obvious one-slot trap. The possible answers do not form a three-word-or-larger family that differs in only one position.

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SWIRL

To twist or whirl, as an eddy.

“I swirled my brush around in the paint.”

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Past Wordle answer: August 30, 2021.

TWIRL

A movement where a person spins round elegantly; a pirouette.

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Past Wordle answer: January 3, 2024.

WHIRL

To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.

“The dancer whirled across the stage, stopped, and whirled around to face the audience.”

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Past Wordle answer: July 12, 2023.

CHIRL

To emit a low sound; to warble.

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Not found among the past answers in this archive.

KWIRL

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NJIRL

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QUIRL

To curl or twirl, or twist or coil (up).

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Not found among the past answers in this archive.

SKIRL

To make a shrill sound, as of bagpipes.

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Not found among the past answers in this archive.

THIRL

A hole, an aperture, especially a nostril.

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Not found among the past answers in this archive.

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