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CLOSE

Yes, CLOSE was the Wordle answer on September 19, 2023 (Wordle #822).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkləʊz/[ˈkʰl̥əʊ̯z]/ˈklɵʊ̯z/

Verb

To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.

“Close the door behind you when you leave.”

Verb

To finish.

“The committee chairman made a few concluding remarks and then closed the session.”

Noun

An end or conclusion.

“We owe them our thanks for bringing the project to a successful close.”

Noun

The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.

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 19, 2023 (#822).

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

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How CLOSE performs as a guess

CLOSE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 89.2% of games, misses completely in 10.8%, and leaves about 98 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #407 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___E C in the 1st position and E in the 5th position C__S_ C in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN DETER RAINY GRATE SAINT RENAL
Words starting with C Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.42 Entropy (bits)
98 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.53 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CLOSE 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
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#407 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CLOSE ranks #407 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
1,009
4 guesses
1,110
5 guesses
140
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
40%
All gray
11%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CLOSE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

118 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

254
235
155
119
117
103
93
70
60
59
54
48
48
47
45
42
39
37
33
32
28
24
24
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22
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19
19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CLOSE:

11% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
10% chance
Suggested:
DETER
7% chance
Suggested:
RAINY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.8% →
TRAIN 5.88 bits
10.0% →
DETER 5.42 bits
6.6% →
RAINY 5.02 bits
5.0% →
GRATE 4.56 bits
5.0% →
SAINT 5.14 bits
4.4% →
RAINY 4.72 bits
3.9% →
RENAL 4.70 bits
3.0% →
STEER 4.73 bits
2.5% →
RAINY 4.47 bits
2.5% →
TROOP 4.03 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3L1O1S1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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