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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier for first-turn info

ACUTE

Yes, ACUTE has been the Wordle answer on December 26, 2021 (Wordle #190) and June 26, 2026 (Wordle #1833).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈkjuːt//əˈkjut/

Adjective

Brief, quick, short.

“It was an acute event.”

Adjective

High or shrill.

“an acute accent or tone”

Noun

A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.

Noun

An acute accent (´).

“The word ‘cafe’ often has an acute over the ‘e’.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used 2 times

Past Wordle answer: December 26, 2021 (#190); June 26, 2026 (#1833).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How ACUTE performs as a guess

ACUTE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,360 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 90.0% of games, misses completely in 10.0%, and leaves about 105 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,800 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

A___E A in the 1st position and E in the 5th position A__T_ A in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _C__E C in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

GLORY SILER SONLY NOIRE REGAL SNORT
Words starting with A Words ending with E

First-turn measures

All four describe ACUTE used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

5.24 Entropy (bits)
105 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ACUTE performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#3,800 Rank among openers
Opening with ACUTE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,800 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
902
4 guesses
1,149
5 guesses
204
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AETU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
33%
All gray
10%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B U T C H
A C U T E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ACUTE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ACUTE can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

237 answers
230 answers
220 answers
124 answers
99 answers
95 answers
83 answers
83 answers
80 answers
79 answers
67 answers
66 answers
49 answers
47 answers
43 answers
40 answers
37 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ACUTE:

10% chance
Suggested:
GLORY
10% chance
Suggested:
SILER
9% chance
Suggested:
SONLY

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

10.0% →
GLORY 5.48 bits
9.7% →
SILER 5.09 bits
9.3% →
SONLY 5.17 bits
5.3% →
NOIRE 4.54 bits
4.2% →
REGAL 4.67 bits
4.0% →
SNORT 5.05 bits
3.5% →
SETER 4.85 bits
3.5% →
SURLY 4.26 bits
3.4% →
TRAIL 4.73 bits
3.3% →
CAROL 4.44 bits

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for ACUTE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

A1C3U1T1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.