COUNT
Yes, COUNT was the Wordle answer on January 24, 2023 (Wordle #584).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /kaʊnt//kuːnt/
- Verb
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To recite numbers in sequence.
“Can you count to a hundred?”
- Verb
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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
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The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
“Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.”
- Noun
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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.
Etymology
From Middle English counte, from Anglo-Norman conte and Old French comte (“count”), from Latin comes (“companion”) (more specifically derived from its accusative form comitem) in the sense of "noble fighting alongside the king". Doublet of comes, comte, and conte.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it KOWNT.
Rhymes with MOUNT
Related meanings
Synonyms look number matter bank consider bet
In a sentence
Count me in on this.
Can I count on you?
Use COUNT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% 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
Used oncePast Wordle answer: January 24, 2023 (#584).
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10 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . Showing the 5 most recent. A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #1180
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COUNT appeared in SPREADSHEET FUNCTIONS (purple group).
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· Puzzle #912
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COUNT appeared in BEAR IN MIND (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #792
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COUNT appeared in SPECS ON CONSUMER PACKAGING (blue group).
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· Puzzle #747
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COUNT appeared in “SESAME STREET” FIGURES (blue group).
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· Puzzle #731
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COUNT appeared in CEREAL MASCOTS (blue group).
How COUNT performs as a guess
COUNT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,385 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 176 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
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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
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:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for COUNT; 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 COUNT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to COUNT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing COUNT:
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.
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.
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).