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AWAIT

Yes, AWAIT was the Wordle answer on September 3, 2023 (Wordle #806).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈweɪt/

Verb

To wait for.

“I await your reply to my letter.”

Verb

To expect.

Noun

A waiting for; ambush.

Noun

Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.

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: September 3, 2023 (#806).

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How AWAIT performs as a guess

AWAIT 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 75.6% of games, misses completely in 24.4%, and leaves about 238 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,704 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___T A in the 1st position and T in the 5th position A__I_ A in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _W__T W in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe AWAIT 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.

4.27 Entropy (bits)
238 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 37% of evaluated openers
1.68 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AWAIT 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,704 Rank among openers
Opening with AWAIT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,704 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
763
4 guesses
1,214
5 guesses
303
6 guesses
20
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
32%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
A W A I T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches AWAIT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

AWAIT can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

580 answers
271 answers
256 answers
162 answers
156 answers
85 answers
79 answers
71 answers
65 answers
63 answers
49 answers
49 answers
37 answers
34 answers
31 answers
28 answers
26 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1W4A1I1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SOLER RINSE CARLE CRUSE SHOER SOREL

Strategy after playing AWAIT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AWAIT:

24% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
11% chance
Suggested:
RINSE
11% chance
Suggested:
CARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.4% →
SOLER 5.93 bits
11.4% →
RINSE 5.28 bits
10.8% →
CARLE 5.37 bits
6.8% →
CRUSE 5.03 bits
6.6% →
SHOER 5.54 bits
3.6% →
SOREL 5.11 bits
3.3% →
TASTE 4.48 bits
3.0% →
WORLD 4.92 bits
2.7% →
TRITE 4.29 bits
2.7% →
CLONE 4.67 bits

Research on AWAIT

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

Optimal play

Opening with AWAIT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,132 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.94 guesses at best and is rank #5,163 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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 UHWAYT.

Rhymes with GREAT STATE EIGHT PLATE SLATE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, AWAIT is a kind of think.

Synonyms look wait expect anticipate

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AWAIT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 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 internal bodily sensation (2.2 of 5).

In a sentence

I await an answer from you.
© tatoeba.org contributor Bravus (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I await a detailed report.
© tatoeba.org contributor helloroto (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).