CLICK
Yes, CLICK has been the Wordle answer on October 31, 2021 (Wordle #134) and August 25, 2026 (Wordle #1893).
As an opener, it rules out about 82.8% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /klɪk/[kʰl̥ɪk]
- Noun
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A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock, or a latch.
“As I turned the key, the lock gave a click and the door opened.”
- Noun
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The act of snapping one's fingers.
- Verb
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To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
- Verb
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To emit a click.
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
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used 2 timesPast Wordle answer: October 31, 2021 (#134); August 25, 2026 (#1893).
See the full page for each puzzle: October 31, 2021 (#134); August 25, 2026 (#1893).
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See what the public sample says →How CLICK performs as a guess
CLICK 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 62.8% of games, misses completely in 37.2%, and leaves about 407 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,089 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe CLICK 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 CLICK 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 CLICK in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
CLICK can come back 70 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 CLICK; 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 CLICK
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CLICK.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CLICK:
Research on CLICK
Game-tree analysis and word research for CLICK, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CLICK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,318 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.97 guesses at best and is rank #5,720 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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, CLICK is a kind of sound or stop.
Synonyms dog dawn snap tick FLICK penetrate
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- CLICK sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 66 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 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 71 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.1 of 5).
In a sentence
It didn't click with him.
Did you hear the click?
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).