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BOOTH

Yes, BOOTH was the Wordle answer on July 18, 2026 (Wordle #1855).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /buːð//buːθ//buθ/

Noun

A small stall for the display and sale of goods.

Noun

A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English bothe, from Old East Norse *bóð, from Proto-Germanic *bōþō, *būþiz, *buþǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-. Compare Middle Low German bôde, Middle Dutch boede, German Bude.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it BOOTH.

Rhymes with TRUTH YOUTH TOOTH

Related meanings

Synonyms STALL cubicle KIOSK

In a sentence

The fire started in his booth.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I have to find a phone booth.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use BOOTH in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 83.9% of possible answers.

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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: July 18, 2026 (#1855).

See the full page for that puzzle: July 18, 2026 (#1855).

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

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BOOTH in Connections

4 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How BOOTH performs as a guess

BOOTH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 63.8% of games, misses completely in 36.2%, and leaves about 384 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,895 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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.

B___H B in the 1st position and H in the 5th position B__T_ B in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _O__H O in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe BOOTH 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.

3.90 Entropy (bits)
384 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BOOTH 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#9,895 Rank among openers
Opening with BOOTH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,895 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
788
4 guesses
1,199
5 guesses
291
6 guesses
21

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
35%
All gray
36%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B U S H Y
B O O T H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches BOOTH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

BOOTH can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

862 answers
300 answers
139 answers
121 answers
100 answers
100 answers
91 answers
72 answers
55 answers
48 answers
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38 answers
34 answers
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20 answers
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18 answers
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11 answers
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10 answers
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9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3O1O1T1H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

RAILE ARIEL CARLE SAICE CRANE MANOR

Strategy after playing BOOTH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BOOTH:

36% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
13% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
6% chance
Suggested:
CARLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.2% →
RAILE 6.24 bits
12.6% →
ARIEL 5.66 bits
5.8% →
CARLE 4.73 bits
5.1% →
SAICE 5.40 bits
4.2% →
CRANE 5.01 bits
4.2% →
MANOR 5.20 bits
3.8% →
RAILE 5.29 bits
3.0% →
RAISE 4.67 bits
2.3% →
SALEP 4.66 bits
2.0% →
TIARE 4.67 bits

Research on BOOTH

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

Optimal play

Opening with BOOTH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,811 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best and is rank #5,278 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
BOOTH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 13 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

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).