BIRTH
Yes, BIRTH was the Wordle answer on March 12, 2023 (Wordle #631).
As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /bɜːθ//bɜːð//bɜɹθ/
- Noun
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The process of childbearing; the beginning of life; the emergence of a human baby or other viviparous animal offspring from the mother's body into the environment.
- Noun
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An instance of childbirth.
“Intersex babies account for roughly one per cent of all births.”
- Adjective
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A familial relationship established by childbirth.
“Her birth father left when she was a baby; she was raised by her mother and stepfather.”
- Verb
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To bear or give birth to (a child).
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: March 12, 2023 (#631).
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BIRTH 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 79.2% of games, misses completely in 20.8%, and leaves about 188 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,926 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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First-turn measures
All four describe BIRTH 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 BIRTH 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 BIRTH in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
BIRTH can come back 101 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 BIRTH; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Strategy after playing BIRTH
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BIRTH.
Quick reference
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Research on BIRTH
Game-tree analysis and word research for BIRTH, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with BIRTH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,086 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 #1,435 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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, BIRTH is a kind of first or change.
Synonyms have bear deliver nativity expect CARRY
Opposites DEATH
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- BIRTH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 59 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 84 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.5 of 5).
In a sentence
There is a birth in the family.
What is your place of birth?
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; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).