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COUNT

Yes, COUNT was the Wordle answer on January 24, 2023 (Wordle #584).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /kaʊnt//kuːnt/

Verb

To recite numbers in sequence.

“Can you count to a hundred?”

Verb

To determine the number of (objects in a group).

“Count the number of apples in the bag and write down the number on the spreadsheet.”

Noun

The act of counting or tallying a quantity.

“Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.”

Noun

The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.

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: January 24, 2023 (#584).

See the full page for that puzzle: January 24, 2023 (#584).

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

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How COUNT performs as a guess

COUNT 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 77.9% of games, misses completely in 22.1%, and leaves about 175 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #460 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___T C in the 1st position and T in the 5th position C__N_ C in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__T O in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe COUNT 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.

4.96 Entropy (bits)
175 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How COUNT 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
99.83% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#460 Rank among openers
Opening with COUNT left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.58 average. It ranks #460 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
1,045
4 guesses
1,067
5 guesses
152
6 guesses
21
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:
NOTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
36%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C U M I N
C O U N T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches COUNT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

COUNT can come back 117 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

525 answers
188 answers
139 answers
137 answers
118 answers
110 answers
92 answers
77 answers
75 answers
55 answers
55 answers
43 answers
39 answers
29 answers
27 answers
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25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1U1N1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

RAILE TARTE ARISE SLADE DROLE SERAL

Strategy after playing COUNT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COUNT:

22% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
TARTE
6% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.1% →
RAILE 6.26 bits
7.9% →
TARTE 5.70 bits
5.9% →
RAILE 5.31 bits
5.8% →
ARISE 5.15 bits
5.0% →
SLADE 4.76 bits
4.6% →
DROLE 4.60 bits
3.9% →
SERAL 5.34 bits
3.2% →
SERAL 5.24 bits
3.2% →
PHARE 4.91 bits
2.3% →
GLARE 4.48 bits

Research on COUNT

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

Optimal play

Opening with COUNT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,310 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 COUNT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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 KOWNT.

Rhymes with MOUNT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, COUNT is a kind of number or investigation.

Synonyms look number matter bank consider bet

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
COUNT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 68 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: 44 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.

In a sentence

Count me in on this.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Can I count on you?
© tatoeba.org contributor Spamster (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).