ACUTE
Yes, ACUTE has been the Wordle answer on December 26, 2021 (Wordle #190) and June 26, 2026 (Wordle #1833).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /əˈkjuːt//əˈkjut/
- Adjective
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Brief, quick, short.
“It was an acute event.”
- Adjective
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High or shrill.
“an acute accent or tone”
- Noun
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A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.
- Noun
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An acute accent (´).
“The word ‘cafe’ often has an acute over the ‘e’.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Use ACUTE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used 2 timesPast Wordle answer: December 26, 2021 (#190); June 26, 2026 (#1833).
See the full page for each puzzle: December 26, 2021 (#190); June 26, 2026 (#1833).
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See what the public sample says →How ACUTE performs as a guess
ACUTE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,375 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 106 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
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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
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:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for ACUTE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing ACUTE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ACUTE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing ACUTE:
Research on ACUTE
Game-tree analysis and word research for ACUTE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with ACUTE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,784 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with ACUTE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, because the two figures score different answer lists.
These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it UHKYOOT.
Related meanings
Synonyms SHARP intense keen piercing penetrating discriminating
Opposites chronic obtuse dull pointless
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- ACUTE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 10 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 11, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 30 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.0 of 5).
In a sentence
You have very acute hearing.
Her hearing is particularly acute.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).