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EMPTY

Yes, EMPTY was the Wordle answer on August 10, 2023 (Wordle #782).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɛm(p).ti/[ˈɛm(p).tʰi]/ˈɪm(p).ti/

Adjective

Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.

“an empty purse”

Adjective

Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).

Verb

To make empty; to remove the contents of.

“to empty a well or a cistern”

Verb

Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.

“Salmon River empties on the W shore about 2 miles below Bear River.”

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: August 10, 2023 (#782).

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

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How EMPTY performs as a guess

EMPTY 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 81.6% of games, misses completely in 18.4%, and leaves about 242 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,283 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

E___Y E in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position E__T_ E in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _M__Y M in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

SOLAR CAIRN SAINT SAREE ARISE CAROM
Words starting with E Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.21 Entropy (bits)
242 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.73 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How EMPTY 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#9,283 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, EMPTY ranks #9,283 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
759
4 guesses
1,265
5 guesses
245
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
1 vowels
Common:
ET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
25%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P I T H Y
E M P T Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches EMPTY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

493
434
234
165
151
89
85
66
61
40
39
35
29
28
26
25
23
23
21
20
19
18
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11
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EMPTY:

21% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
18% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
10% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.9% →
SOLAR 5.36 bits
18.4% →
CAIRN 5.99 bits
9.9% →
SAINT 5.44 bits
7.0% →
SOLAR 4.68 bits
6.4% →
SAREE 4.82 bits
3.8% →
ARISE 4.91 bits
3.6% →
CAROM 5.11 bits
2.8% →
SONAR 4.91 bits
2.6% →
MORAE 4.66 bits
1.7% →
DEARE 4.18 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1M3P3T1Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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