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

AMPLE

Yes, AMPLE was the Wordle answer on April 17, 2022 (Wordle #302).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈæm.pəl/

Determiner

A fully sufficient or abundant quantity of; enough or more than enough.

“We have ample time to finish the task.”

Determiner

A quantity (of something) that is fully sufficient; plenty.

“We don't need any more. We already have ample.”

Adjective

Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; for example spacious, roomy or widely extended.

“We have an ample supply of water”

Adjective

Very adequate.

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: April 17, 2022 (#302).

See the full page for that puzzle: April 17, 2022 (#302).

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

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How AMPLE performs as a guess

AMPLE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.4% of games, misses completely in 15.6%, and leaves about 143 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,174 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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__L_ A in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _M__E M in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in AMPLE.

First-turn measures

All four describe AMPLE 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.

4.96 Entropy (bits)
143 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
0.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AMPLE 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,174 Rank among openers
Opening with AMPLE left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,174 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
901
4 guesses
1,195
5 guesses
168
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
31%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S M I L Y
A M B L E
A M P L E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches AMPLE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

AMPLE can come back 106 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

371 answers
249 answers
233 answers
149 answers
98 answers
95 answers
85 answers
72 answers
68 answers
64 answers
63 answers
61 answers
45 answers
41 answers
41 answers
37 answers
35 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1M3P3L1E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SNORT DETER TRAIN SENOR CLOUT SONAR

Strategy after playing AMPLE

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to AMPLE.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AMPLE:

16% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
10% chance
Suggested:
DETER
10% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.6% →
SNORT 5.96 bits
10.5% →
DETER 5.45 bits
9.8% →
TRAIN 5.30 bits
6.3% →
SENOR 4.64 bits
4.1% →
CLOUT 4.65 bits
4.0% →
SONAR 4.42 bits
3.6% →
SETER 4.35 bits
3.0% →
REBEL 4.33 bits
2.9% →
SHART 4.17 bits
2.7% →
HUMOR 4.55 bits

Research on AMPLE

Game-tree analysis and word research for AMPLE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with AMPLE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,864 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #556 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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 first syllable Say it AMPUHL.

Related meanings

Synonyms rich sizable plentiful sizeable copious good

Opposites meager little SMALL scarce

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AMPLE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 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 B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.9 of 5).

In a sentence

There is an ample market for this product.
© tatoeba.org contributor AlanF_US (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Why do you keep saying there's ample time?
© tatoeba.org contributor sharptoothed (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).