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EIGHT

Yes, EIGHT was the Wordle answer on January 9, 2026 (Wordle #1665).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /eɪt//eʈ//ɛ(j)ʈ/

Numeral

A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.

Numeral

Describing a group or set with eight elements.

“He works eight hours a day.”

Noun

The digit/figure 8.

Noun

Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.

Alternative forms: aught

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 9, 2026 (#1665).

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

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How EIGHT performs as a guess

EIGHT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 185 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,840 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

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 _I__T I in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL LAREE SLAIN SOLAR ROACH SORAL
Words starting with E Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.62 Entropy (bits)
185 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.33 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How EIGHT 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#6,840 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, EIGHT ranks #6,840 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
864
4 guesses
1,192
5 guesses
224
6 guesses
20
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:
EIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
24%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches EIGHT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

90 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

410
409
146
108
105
103
79
77
73
64
59
56
55
55
45
41
37
30
27
24
22
22
22
20
16
14
11
11
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EIGHT:

17% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
17% chance
Suggested:
LAREE
6% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4% →
CAROL 5.96 bits
17.3% →
LAREE 5.39 bits
6.2% →
SLAIN 5.15 bits
4.6% →
SOLAR 4.97 bits
4.5% →
ROACH 5.06 bits
4.4% →
SORAL 5.13 bits
3.4% →
SARED 4.38 bits
3.3% →
CARSE 5.04 bits
3.1% →
SORAL 5.00 bits
2.7% →
ALURE 4.52 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1I1G2H4T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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