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COURT

Yes, COURT was the Wordle answer on January 17, 2024 (Wordle #942).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːt/[ˈkʰɔːt]/ˈkɔɹt/

Noun

An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.

“The girls were playing in the court.”

Noun

Royal society.

“The noblemen visited the queen in her court.”

Verb

To seek to achieve or win (a prize).

“He was courting big new accounts that previous salesmen had not attempted.”

Verb

To risk (a consequence, usually negative).

“She courted controversy with her frank speeches.”

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 17, 2024 (#942).

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

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How COURT performs as a guess

COURT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,360 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.0% of games, misses completely in 18.0%, and leaves about 141 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #181 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 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__R_ C in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _O__T O in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SLANE DAINE TASTE SMILE SIDLE PLANE
Words starting with C Words ending with T

First-turn measures

All four describe COURT 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.

5.17 Entropy (bits)
141 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How COURT 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.

3.56 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#181 Rank among openers
Opening with COURT left 3 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 3.56 average. It ranks #181 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
1,089
4 guesses
1,019
5 guesses
159
6 guesses
19
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:
ORTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
37%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
T O R S O
C O U R T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches COURT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

COURT can come back 121 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

425 answers
237 answers
144 answers
119 answers
100 answers
87 answers
83 answers
75 answers
73 answers
62 answers
53 answers
51 answers
48 answers
44 answers
43 answers
34 answers
30 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing COURT:

18% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
10% chance
Suggested:
DAINE
6% chance
Suggested:
TASTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.0% →
SLANE 6.26 bits
10.0% →
DAINE 5.31 bits
6.1% →
TASTE 5.46 bits
5.0% →
SLANE 5.32 bits
4.2% →
SMILE 4.70 bits
3.7% →
SIDLE 4.42 bits
3.5% →
SLANE 5.24 bits
3.2% →
DAINE 4.35 bits
3.1% →
PLANE 5.19 bits
2.6% →
TARSE 4.65 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3O1U1R1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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