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EDICT

Yes, EDICT was the Wordle answer on June 22, 2024 (Wordle #1099).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈiː.dɪkt/

Noun

A proclamation of law or other authoritative command.

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: June 22, 2024 (#1099).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 22, 2024 (#1099).

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

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How EDICT performs as a guess

EDICT 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 84.7% of games, misses completely in 15.3%, and leaves about 157 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,823 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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 5th position E__C_ E in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _D__T D in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe EDICT 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.

4.87 Entropy (bits)
157 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How EDICT 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,823 Rank among openers
Opening with EDICT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,823 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
947
4 guesses
1,151
5 guesses
176
6 guesses
17
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:
EIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
28%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
E D I C T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches EDICT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

EDICT can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

378 answers
364 answers
124 answers
117 answers
94 answers
93 answers
93 answers
84 answers
71 answers
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22 answers
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13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1D2I1C3T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

LAREE SALON SONAR TARTE SORAL SONLY

Strategy after playing EDICT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EDICT:

16% chance
Suggested:
LAREE
15% chance
Suggested:
SALON
5% chance
Suggested:
SONAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.9% →
LAREE 5.44 bits
15.3% →
SALON 5.97 bits
5.2% →
SONAR 5.21 bits
4.9% →
TARTE 5.01 bits
4.0% →
SORAL 5.34 bits
3.9% →
SONLY 4.84 bits
3.9% →
BROAD 4.73 bits
3.5% →
LEARE 4.77 bits
3.0% →
SNARY 4.54 bits
2.9% →
SORAL 5.02 bits

Research on EDICT

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

Optimal play

Opening with EDICT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,740 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 EDICT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it EEDIHKT.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, EDICT is a kind of announcement or act.

Synonyms ORDER decree fiat

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
EDICT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (2.5 of 5).

In a sentence

The czar issued an edict.
© tatoeba.org contributor AlanF_US (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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).