5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

EXACT

Yes, EXACT was the Wordle answer on August 18, 2023 (Wordle #790).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzækt//ɛɡ-/

Adjective

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.

“The clock keeps exact time.”

Adjective

Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.

“a man exact in observing an appointment”

Verb

To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.

“to exact tribute, fees, or obedience from someone”

Verb

To make desirable or necessary.

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 18, 2023 (#790).

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

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How EXACT performs as a guess

EXACT 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 84.5% of games, misses completely in 15.5%, and leaves about 178 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,947 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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___T E in the 1st position and T in the 5th position E__C_ E in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _X__T X in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SIREE SOILY RAYON MARLE SOUTH SNARL
Words starting with E Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.54 Entropy (bits)
178 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How EXACT 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,947 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, EXACT ranks #10,947 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
757
4 guesses
1,236
5 guesses
285
6 guesses
27
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
2 vowels
Common:
AET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
30%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L E A N S
E X A C T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches EXACT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

78 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

393
365
201
145
108
99
93
88
79
66
63
59
47
47
44
36
32
29
28
26
23
22
21
20
17
15
13
10
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EXACT:

17% chance
Suggested:
SIREE
15% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
9% chance
Suggested:
RAYON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.7% →
SIREE 5.49 bits
15.5% →
SOILY 5.67 bits
8.5% →
RAYON 5.02 bits
6.1% →
MARLE 4.55 bits
4.6% →
SOUTH 4.92 bits
4.2% →
SIREE 4.80 bits
3.9% →
SNARL 4.25 bits
3.7% →
NOISE 4.61 bits
3.4% →
SOILY 4.93 bits
2.8% →
SERAL 3.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1X8A1C3T1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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