CLOUT
CLOUT is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /klaʊt/[klʌʊt]/klæɔt/
- Noun
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Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
- Noun
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A blow with the hand.
- Verb
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To hit (someone or something), especially with the fist.
- Verb
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To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English clout (“piece of cloth”), from Old English clūt (“piece of cloth, patch; metal plate”), from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gelewdos, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). The influence sense originated in the dialect of Chicago, but has become widespread.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it KLOWT.
Rhymes with ABOUT DOUBT SHOUT SCOUT TROUT
Related meanings
Synonyms pull PUNCH lick poke slug
In a sentence
Never cast a clout till May is out.
Tom doesn't have as much clout as he used to.
Use CLOUT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% 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
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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See what the public sample says →CLOUT in Connections
2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #354
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CLOUT appeared in INFLUENCE (green group).
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· Puzzle #80
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CLOUT appeared in INFLUENCE (green group).
How CLOUT performs as a guess
CLOUT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.8% of games, misses completely in 19.2%, and leaves about 155 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #661 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe CLOUT 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 CLOUT 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 CLOUT in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
CLOUT can come back 107 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 CLOUT; 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.
Try next
Strategy after playing CLOUT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CLOUT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing CLOUT:
Research on CLOUT
Game-tree analysis and word research for CLOUT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with CLOUT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,664 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #500 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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
- CLOUT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
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).