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EXACT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% 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).

See the full page for that puzzle: 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 2,374 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 179 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,947 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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__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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe EXACT 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.

4.54 Entropy (bits)
179 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.4% 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 opening guess: previous 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,947 Rank among openers
Opening with EXACT left 3 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 3.78 average. It 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 (3.46 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

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

396 answers
368 answers
202 answers
146 answers
109 answers
101 answers
93 answers
88 answers
80 answers
66 answers
63 answers
59 answers
49 answers
47 answers
44 answers
37 answers
32 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
15 answers
13 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

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.

Try next

SIREE SOILY RAYON MARLE SOUTH SNARL

Strategy after playing EXACT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EXACT:

17% chance
Suggested:
SIREE
16% 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 5.01 bits
6.1% →
MARLE 4.56 bits
4.6% →
SOUTH 4.91 bits
4.3% →
SIREE 4.82 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

Research on EXACT

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

Optimal play

Opening with EXACT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,279 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 EXACT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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.

How it sounds

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

Rhymes with REACT TRACT ENACT

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, EXACT is a kind of claim or need.

Synonyms take CLAIM direct demand accurate precise

Opposites WRONG relative incorrect

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
EXACT sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 32 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 38 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 of 5).

In a sentence

What is the exact time?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Do you have exact change?
© tatoeba.org contributor Eccles17 (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).