EJECT
Yes, EJECT was the Wordle answer on December 1, 2022 (Wordle #530).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ɪˈd͡ʒɛkt//ˈiː.d͡ʒɛkt/
- Verb
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To compel (a person or persons) to leave.
“The man started a fight and was ejected from the bar.”
- Verb
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To throw out or remove forcefully.
“In other news, a Montreal man was ejected from his car when he was involved in an accident.”
- Noun
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an inferred object of someone else's consciousness
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle French éjecter, from Latin ēiectus, perfect passive participle of ēiciō (“to throw out”), or from ēiectō, the frequentative form of the same verb, from ē-, combining form of ex (“out”), + iaciō (“to throw”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it IHJEHKT.
Rhymes with ELECT ERECT HECHT WECHT FECHT
Related meanings
Synonyms release discharge exhaust exclude EXPEL squirt
In a sentence
The computer told Lukas to eject.
Use EJECT in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 86.1% 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: December 1, 2022 (#530).
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See what the public sample says →EJECT 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 #765
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EJECT appeared in FORCE TO LEAVE (green group).
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· Puzzle #317
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EJECT appeared in THROW OUT (yellow group).
How EJECT performs as a guess
EJECT 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 72.2% of games, misses completely in 27.8%, and leaves about 331 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,573 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe EJECT 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 EJECT 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 EJECT in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
EJECT can come back 59 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 EJECT; 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.
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Strategy after playing EJECT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to EJECT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing EJECT:
Research on EJECT
Game-tree analysis and word research for EJECT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with EJECT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,628 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 4.04 guesses at best and is rank #6,683 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.87, at or below the proven-optimal 3.89, 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
- EJECT sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 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).