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EARTH

Yes, EARTH was the Wordle answer on July 11, 2023 (Wordle #752).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɜːθ//ɝθ//ɵːθ/

Proper noun

Alternative letter-case form of Earth; our planet, third out from the Sun.

“The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole.”

Noun

Soil.

“This is good earth for growing potatoes.”

Noun

Any general rock-based material.

“She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth.”

Verb

To connect electrically to the earth.

“That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed.”

Alternative forms: airth, erd, yearth

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: July 11, 2023 (#752).

See the full page for that puzzle: July 11, 2023 (#752).

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

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How EARTH performs as a guess

EARTH 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 88.6% of games, misses completely in 11.4%, and leaves about 100 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #909 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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.

E__T_ E in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__H A in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe EARTH 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.

5.41 Entropy (bits)
100 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How EARTH 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#909 Rank among openers
Opening with EARTH left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #909 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
98
3 guesses
945
4 guesses
1,127
5 guesses
169
6 guesses
13
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:
AERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
29%
All gray
11%

Example solver route

R O A T E
E A R T H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches EARTH in 2 guesses.

Feedback distribution

EARTH can come back 133 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

270 answers
218 answers
173 answers
123 answers
103 answers
92 answers
90 answers
83 answers
75 answers
71 answers
62 answers
54 answers
43 answers
42 answers
40 answers
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34 answers
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31 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1A1R1T1H4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

SOLID SIDLE SEINE SLAIN PRONG SLANE

Strategy after playing EARTH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EARTH:

11% chance
Suggested:
SOLID
9% chance
Suggested:
SIDLE
7% chance
Suggested:
SEINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.4% →
SOLID 5.58 bits
9.2% →
SIDLE 5.33 bits
7.3% →
SEINE 4.34 bits
5.2% →
SLAIN 5.06 bits
4.3% →
PRONG 4.54 bits
3.9% →
SLANE 4.59 bits
3.8% →
SONLY 4.67 bits
3.5% →
POINT 5.09 bits
3.2% →
GRAND 4.25 bits
3.0% →
SOLED 4.52 bits

Research on EARTH

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

Optimal play

Opening with EARTH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,614 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 EARTH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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 URTH.

Rhymes with WORTH BIRTH BERTH FIRTH GIRTH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, EARTH is a kind of location or stuff.

Synonyms WORLD land ground

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
EARTH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 115 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 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 94 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.3 of 5).

In a sentence

What on earth is that?
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
What on earth is it?
© tatoeba.org contributor blay_paul (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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).