COURT
Yes, COURT was the Wordle answer on January 17, 2024 (Wordle #942).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːt/[ˈkʰɔːt]/ˈkɔɹt/
- Noun
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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
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Royal society.
“The noblemen visited the queen in her court.”
- Verb
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To seek to achieve or win (a prize).
“He was courting big new accounts that previous salesmen had not attempted.”
- Verb
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To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
“She courted controversy with her frank speeches.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Use COURT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.
Wordle status
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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 17, 2024 (#942).
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See what the public sample says →How COURT performs as a guess
COURT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,375 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 142 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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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
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:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for COURT; 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.
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Strategy after playing COURT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to COURT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing COURT:
Research on COURT
Game-tree analysis and word research for COURT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with COURT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #900 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 COURT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.56, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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.
Related meanings
Synonyms romance tribunal woo courtyard homage courtroom
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- COURT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 257 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 9, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 73 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.0 of 5).
In a sentence
I'm going to the court.
He can come to court.
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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).