CARAT
Yes, CARAT was the Wordle answer on April 13, 2023 (Wordle #663).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈkæ.ɹət//ˈkɛɹ.ət/
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A metric unit of mass equal to exactly 200 mg, chiefly used for measuring precious stones and pearls.
- Noun
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A 24-point scale used to measure the purity of gold.
“18-carat gold is 75% gold by mass. 24-carat gold is pure.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle French carat, from Italian carato, from Arabic قِيرَاط (qīrāṭ, “carat, similarly small units such as inches”), from Ancient Greek κεράτιον (kerátion, “hornlet, carob seed”), from κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix). Doublet of quilate and keratin.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it KEHRUHT.
Related meanings
Synonyms kt
In a sentence
The ring sports three diamonds, each equaling one tenth of a carat.
Use CARAT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: April 13, 2023 (#663).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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CARAT appeared in DIAMOND QUALITIES (blue group).
How CARAT performs as a guess
CARAT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,385 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.3% of games, misses completely in 20.7%, and leaves about 173 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,996 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 CARAT 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 CARAT 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 CARAT in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
CARAT 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 CARAT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing CARAT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CARAT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CARAT:
Research on CARAT
Game-tree analysis and word research for CARAT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CARAT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,233 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 CARAT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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
- CARAT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.5 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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).