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EVENT

Yes, EVENT was the Wordle answer on November 7, 2024 (Wordle #1237).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɪˈvɛnt//i-//ə-/

Noun

An occurrence; something that happens.

“In the event of strong wind…”

Noun

A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

“I went to an event in San Francisco last week.”

Verb

To occur, take place.

Verb

To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Middle French event, from Latin ēventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ēveniō (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ē (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veniō (“come”); related to venture, advent, convent, invent, convene, evene, etc.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it IHVEHNT.

Rhymes with SPENT MEANT SCENT BRENT STENT

Related meanings

Synonyms case ISSUE result effect outcome consequence

In a sentence

I'm going to this event.
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (CC BY 2.0 FR)
This is an important event.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use EVENT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.7% of possible answers.

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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: November 7, 2024 (#1237).

See the full page for that puzzle: November 7, 2024 (#1237).

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

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EVENT in Connections

2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How EVENT performs as a guess

EVENT 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 74.5% of games, misses completely in 25.5%, and leaves about 270 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,025 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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 E__N_ E in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _V__T V in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe EVENT 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.

4.10 Entropy (bits)
270 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.7% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How EVENT 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,025 Rank among openers
Opening with EVENT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #12,025 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
715
4 guesses
1,249
5 guesses
320
6 guesses
22

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
25%
All gray
26%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
E J E C T
E V E N T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches EVENT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

EVENT can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

607 answers
390 answers
192 answers
155 answers
126 answers
114 answers
104 answers
93 answers
52 answers
48 answers
37 answers
34 answers
32 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
23 answers
23 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1V4E1N1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SORAL SOLAR SITAR CAIRN TARTE RAILE

Strategy after playing EVENT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EVENT:

25% chance
Suggested:
SORAL
16% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
8% chance
Suggested:
SITAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.5% →
SORAL 5.82 bits
16.4% →
SOLAR 5.37 bits
8.1% →
SITAR 4.99 bits
6.5% →
CAIRN 5.13 bits
5.3% →
TARTE 5.02 bits
4.8% →
SORAL 5.05 bits
4.4% →
RAILE 4.68 bits
3.9% →
SOILY 4.28 bits
2.2% →
SORAL 4.18 bits
2.0% →
RAILE 4.56 bits

Research on EVENT

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

Optimal play

Opening with EVENT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,769 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,532 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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
EVENT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 151 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.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 53 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.0 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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).