DEBUT
Yes, DEBUT was the Wordle answer on July 4, 2024 (Wordle #1111).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛbjuː//ˈdeɪbjuː//deɪˈbjuː/
- Noun
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A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area.
- Noun
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The first public presentation of a theatrical play, motion picture, opera, musical composition, dance, or other performing arts piece.
“Since making its debut two years ago, the program has gained cult status.”
- Verb
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To formally introduce, as to the public.
“Amalgamated Software Systems debuted release 3.2 in Spring of 2004.”
- Verb
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To make one's initial formal appearance.
“Release 3.2 debuted to mixed reviews in Spring of 2004.”
Alternative forms: début
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Borrowed from French début, from Middle French, derivative of débuter (“to move, begin”), from dé- + but (“mark, goal”), from Old French but (“aim, goal, end, target”), from Old French butte (“mound, knoll, target”), from Frankish *but (“stump, log”), or from Old Norse bútr (“log, stump, butt”); both from Proto-Germanic *butą (“end, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to beat, push”). Cognate with Old English butt (“tree stump”). More at butt.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it DAYBYOO.
Rhymes with THREW SCREW QUEUE RENEW CANOE
Related meanings
Synonyms ENTRY introduction launching unveiling
In a sentence
Her debut was the biggest social event of the season.
The actress made her debut when she was eight.
Use DEBUT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% 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
Used oncePast Wordle answer: July 4, 2024 (#1111).
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See what the public sample says →DEBUT 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 #813
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DEBUT appeared in FIRST APPEARANCE (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #644
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DEBUT appeared in ENDING WITH SILENT “T” (green group).
How DEBUT performs as a guess
DEBUT 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 79.7% of games, misses completely in 20.3%, and leaves about 202 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,929 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe DEBUT 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 DEBUT 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 DEBUT in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
DEBUT can come back 100 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 DEBUT; 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 DEBUT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to DEBUT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing DEBUT:
Research on DEBUT
Game-tree analysis and word research for DEBUT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with DEBUT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,748 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 DEBUT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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
- DEBUT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 33 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.3 of 5).
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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).