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CLASS

Yes, CLASS was the Wordle answer on September 8, 2022 (Wordle #446).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /klɑːs//klæs//klas/

Noun

A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.

“The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.”

Noun

A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes: upper class, middle class and working class.

Verb

To assign to a class; to classify.

“I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.”

Verb

To be grouped or classed.

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 8, 2022 (#446).

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

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How CLASS performs as a guess

CLASS 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 75.5% of games, misses completely in 24.5%, and leaves about 225 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,297 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

C___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__S_ C in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CLASS 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.

4.42 Entropy (bits)
225 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 46% of evaluated openers
1.53 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CLASS 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#7,297 Rank among openers
Opening with CLASS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,297 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
867
4 guesses
1,199
5 guesses
229
6 guesses
16
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
1 vowels
Common:
ALS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
31%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
A L P H A
C L A S S

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CLASS in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

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

582 answers
260 answers
192 answers
176 answers
116 answers
96 answers
91 answers
72 answers
61 answers
59 answers
54 answers
46 answers
37 answers
37 answers
37 answers
33 answers
30 answers
28 answers
25 answers
19 answers
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19 answers
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17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3L1A1S1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

TONER ROUET LIBEL TALER TRINE TRIDE

Strategy after playing CLASS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CLASS:

25% chance
Suggested:
TONER
11% chance
Suggested:
TONER
8% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.5% →
TONER 6.14 bits
11.0% →
TONER 5.42 bits
8.1% →
ROUET 5.38 bits
7.4% →
LIBEL 5.15 bits
4.9% →
TALER 4.57 bits
4.0% →
TRINE 5.11 bits
3.8% →
TRIDE 4.99 bits
3.0% →
IRONE 5.18 bits
2.6% →
RUOTE 4.98 bits
2.5% →
BRINE 4.51 bits

Research on CLASS

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

Optimal play

Opening with CLASS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,561 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.89 guesses at best and is rank #4,043 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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

One syllable Say it KLAS.

Rhymes with GLASS GRASS BRASS MASSE CRASS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CLASS is a kind of collection or gathering.

Synonyms year family course form sort division

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CLASS sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 229 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 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 61 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.6 of 5).

In a sentence

What class are you in?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Which class are you in?
© tatoeba.org contributor AlanF_US (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; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).