EXTRA
Yes, EXTRA was the Wordle answer on December 25, 2022 (Wordle #554).
As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈɛkstɹə//ˈɛksʈɾa/
- Adjective
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Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.
“I don't mind doing some extra work, as long as I get extra pay.”
- Adjective
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Over the top; going beyond what is normal or appropriate, often in a dramatic manner.
“You unfollowed her for posting cat memes? You're so extra!”
- Adverb
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To an extraordinary degree.
“That day he ran to school extra fast.”
- Noun
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Something additional, such as an item above and beyond the ordinary school curriculum, or added to the usual charge on a bill.
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: December 25, 2022 (#554).
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See what the public sample says →How EXTRA performs as a guess
EXTRA 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 85.6% of games, misses completely in 14.4%, and leaves about 157 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,229 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe EXTRA 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 EXTRA 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 EXTRA in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
EXTRA can come back 79 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 EXTRA; 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 EXTRA
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to EXTRA.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing EXTRA:
Research on EXTRA
Game-tree analysis and word research for EXTRA, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with EXTRA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,793 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 EXTRA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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 first syllable Say it EHKSTRUH.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, EXTRA is a kind of player or edition.
Synonyms special additional SPARE excess surplus duplicate
Opposites necessary scheduled
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- EXTRA sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 95 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 A2); among the first words English learners study.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.3 of 5).
In a sentence
This is an extra one.
What is extra in them?
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).