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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).

See the full page for that puzzle: 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 2,374 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 186 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,840 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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 _I__T I in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe EIGHT 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.

4.62 Entropy (bits)
186 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 opening guess: previous 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#6,840 Rank among openers
Opening with EIGHT 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 3.70 average. It 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 (3.46 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

EIGHT can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

414 answers
410 answers
147 answers
110 answers
105 answers
103 answers
80 answers
77 answers
73 answers
65 answers
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27 answers
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16 answers
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11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers

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.

Try next

CAROL LAREE CAIRN SOLAR ROACH SORAL

Strategy after playing EIGHT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EIGHT:

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

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4% →
CAROL 5.97 bits
17.3% →
LAREE 5.39 bits
6.2% →
CAIRN 5.18 bits
4.6% →
SOLAR 4.99 bits
4.4% →
ROACH 5.05 bits
4.3% →
SORAL 5.13 bits
3.4% →
DANSE 4.43 bits
3.2% →
CARSE 5.05 bits
3.1% →
SORAL 5.00 bits
2.7% →
LAREE 4.55 bits

Research on EIGHT

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

Optimal play

Opening with EIGHT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,883 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 EIGHT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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 AYT.

Rhymes with GREAT STATE PLATE SLATE SKATE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, EIGHT is a kind of school or figure.

Synonyms viii cardinal

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
EIGHT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 105 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 A1); among the first words English learners study.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.5 of 5).

In a sentence

Get me up at eight.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
There were eight of us.
© tatoeba.org contributor ddnktr (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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).