ERUPT
Yes, ERUPT was the Wordle answer on March 15, 2024 (Wordle #1000).
As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹʌpt/
- Verb
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To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser).
“The volcano erupted, spewing lava across a wide area.”
- Verb
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To burst forth; to break out.
“The third molar tooth erupts late in most people, and sometimes does not appear at all.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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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: March 15, 2024 (#1000).
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See what the public sample says →How ERUPT performs as a guess
ERUPT 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 85.0% of games, misses completely in 15.0%, and leaves about 140 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,837 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe ERUPT 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 ERUPT 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 ERUPT in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
ERUPT can come back 111 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 ERUPT; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing ERUPT
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to ERUPT.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing ERUPT:
Research on ERUPT
Game-tree analysis and word research for ERUPT, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with ERUPT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,609 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 ERUPT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, ERUPT is a kind of start or deepen.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- ERUPT 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.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.6 of 5).
In a sentence
This made the class erupt in laughter.
I'd like to see a volcano erupt.
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).