BERTH
Yes, BERTH was the Wordle answer on July 10, 2022 (Wordle #386).
As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /bɜːθ//bɜɹθ//bɛɹθ/
- Noun
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Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space in the water for a ship or other vessel to lie at anchor or manoeuvre without getting in the way of other vessels, or colliding into rocks or the shore.
- Noun
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An assigned place for a person in (chiefly historical) a horse-drawn coach or other means of transportation, or (military) in a barracks.
- Verb
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To bring (a ship or other vessel) into a berth (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1); also, to provide a berth for (a vessel).
- Verb
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To assign (someone) a berth (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.3 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2) or place to sleep on a vessel, a train, etc.
Alternative forms: birth, byrth
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
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Possible answer
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Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: July 10, 2022 (#386).
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See what the public sample says →How BERTH performs as a guess
BERTH 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 82.5% of games, misses completely in 17.5%, and leaves about 157 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,730 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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First-turn measures
All four describe BERTH 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 BERTH 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 BERTH in 2 guesses.
Feedback distribution
BERTH can come back 114 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 BERTH; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Strategy after playing BERTH
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BERTH.
Quick reference
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Research on BERTH
Game-tree analysis and word research for BERTH, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with BERTH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,606 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,343 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, BERTH is a kind of business or anchorage.
Synonyms PLACE post office position situation slip
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- BERTH sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
In a sentence
I'd like to reserve a sleeping berth.
The sailor retired to his berth early.
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).