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ADULT

Yes, ADULT was the Wordle answer on October 17, 2023 (Wordle #850).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈæd.ʌlt//ˈæd.əlt//əˈdʌlt/

Noun

An animal that is full-grown.

Noun

A person who has reached the legal age of majority.

Adjective

Fully grown.

“an adult human, animal, or plant”

Adjective

Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.

“adult clothes; adult cereal; an adult documentary”

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 once

Past Wordle answer: October 17, 2023 (#850).

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

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How ADULT performs as a guess

ADULT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.7% of games, misses completely in 17.3%, and leaves about 152 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #962 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

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

A___T A in the 1st position and T in the 5th position A__L_ A in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _D__T D in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SENOR CARSE SHORE GOIER SIREN DRIED
Words starting with A Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.88 Entropy (bits)
152 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 77% of evaluated openers
1.07 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ADULT 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#962 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ADULT ranks #962 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
1,008
4 guesses
1,093
5 guesses
176
6 guesses
10
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
2 vowels
Common:
ALTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
28%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L I N T
F A U L T
A D U L T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ADULT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

104 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

407
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145
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133
116
107
103
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62
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ADULT:

17% chance
Suggested:
SENOR
11% chance
Suggested:
CARSE
6% chance
Suggested:
SHORE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.3% →
SENOR 6.02 bits
11.5% →
CARSE 5.56 bits
6.1% →
SHORE 5.53 bits
5.7% →
GOIER 4.93 bits
5.6% →
CARSE 4.84 bits
4.9% →
SIREN 4.92 bits
4.5% →
DRIED 5.51 bits
4.4% →
TARTE 4.95 bits
3.5% →
SIREN 5.26 bits
2.6% →
DEARY 4.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1D2U1L1T1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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