ADAPT
Yes, ADAPT was the Wordle answer on December 3, 2023 (Wordle #897).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /əˈdæpt/
- Verb
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To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.
- Verb
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To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.
“to adapt a story for the stage”
- Adjective
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Adapted; fit; suited; suitable; apt.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it UHDAPT.
Related meanings
Synonyms adjust accommodate conform
In a sentence
You just have to adapt.
I think I can adapt.
Use ADAPT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 88.8% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
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 oncePast Wordle answer: December 3, 2023 (#897).
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ADAPT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 72.6% of games, misses completely in 27.4%, and leaves about 266 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,806 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe ADAPT 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 ADAPT 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 ADAPT in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
ADAPT can come back 78 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 ADAPT; 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 ADAPT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ADAPT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing ADAPT:
Research on ADAPT
Game-tree analysis and word research for ADAPT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with ADAPT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,905 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 ADAPT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- ADAPT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 10 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 34 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.1 of 5).
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).