AUDIT
Yes, AUDIT was the Wordle answer on September 18, 2021 (Wordle #91).
As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈɔːdɪt//ˈoːdɪt//ˈɔdɪt/
- Noun
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A judicial examination.
- Noun
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An examination in general.
- Verb
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To examine and adjust (e.g. an account).
“to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court”
- Verb
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To conduct an independent review and examination of system records and activities in order to test the adequacy and effectiveness of data security and data integrity procedures, to ensure compliance with established policy and operational procedures, and to recommend any necessary changes
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
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Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: September 18, 2021 (#91).
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AUDIT 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 85.5% of games, misses completely in 14.5%, and leaves about 158 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,930 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe AUDIT 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 AUDIT 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 AUDIT in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
AUDIT can come back 111 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 AUDIT; 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 AUDIT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to AUDIT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing AUDIT:
Research on AUDIT
Game-tree analysis and word research for AUDIT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with AUDIT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,675 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 AUDIT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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 AWDIHT.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, AUDIT is a kind of accounting or examination.
Synonyms inspect
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- AUDIT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 11 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.
In a sentence
He prepares the office for the audit.
Did they conduct a cybersecurity audit recently?
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.