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CLEAR

Yes, CLEAR was the Wordle answer on September 13, 2023 (Wordle #816).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈklɪə/[ˈkʰlɪə̯]/ˈkliə/

Adjective

Transparent in colour.

“as clear as crystal”

Adjective

Bright; luminous; not dark or obscured.

“The windshield was clear and clean.”

Adverb

All the way; entirely.

“I threw it clear across the river to the other side.”

Adverb

Not near something or touching it.

“Stand clear of the rails, a train is coming.”

Alternative forms: CLR

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 13, 2023 (#816).

See the full page for that puzzle: September 13, 2023 (#816).

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

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How CLEAR performs as a guess

CLEAR 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 89.0% of games, misses completely in 11.0%, and leaves about 92 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #425 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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___R C in the 1st position and R in the 5th position C__A_ C in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _L__R L in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CLEAR 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.

5.53 Entropy (bits)
92 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 99% of evaluated openers
0.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CLEAR 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#425 Rank among openers
Opening with CLEAR left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.58 average. It ranks #425 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
89
3 guesses
1,003
4 guesses
1,079
5 guesses
162
6 guesses
17
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
33%
All gray
11%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G L E A M
C L E A R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CLEAR in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CLEAR can come back 137 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

260 answers
175 answers
151 answers
139 answers
120 answers
94 answers
92 answers
86 answers
83 answers
72 answers
59 answers
55 answers
49 answers
44 answers
42 answers
42 answers
34 answers
33 answers
30 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3L1E1A1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SNOUT TOISE SAINT GROUT STAVE HOARD

Strategy after playing CLEAR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CLEAR:

11% chance
Suggested:
SNOUT
7% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
6% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.0% →
SNOUT 5.80 bits
7.4% →
TOISE 5.28 bits
6.4% →
SAINT 5.42 bits
5.9% →
GROUT 5.15 bits
5.1% →
TOISE 4.62 bits
4.0% →
STAVE 4.48 bits
3.9% →
HOARD 4.24 bits
3.6% →
SILLY 4.82 bits
3.5% →
TOISE 3.42 bits
3.0% →
BOITE 4.38 bits

Research on CLEAR

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

Optimal play

Opening with CLEAR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #704 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 CLEAR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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 KLIHR.

Rhymes with CHEER SHEER QUEER STEER SPEAR

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CLEAR is a kind of innocence or country.

Synonyms make top open LIGHT pass CLEAN

Opposites unclear opaque cloudy bounce

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CLEAR sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 178 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 A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 58 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 of 5).

In a sentence

Are we clear on that?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
It was not clear for you.
© tatoeba.org contributor Aghanim (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).